Whimsical ideas for 2020 - Part 1

But what if there was a way around this? At the risk of mixing movie franchises, what if there was someone you could call? (I had gone with the Ghostbusters theme in an early edit, bear with me). A theoretical “Mr. Wolf Inc” who come to the rescue of people who have been hacked in the first few hours/day when the situation is frantic.

I believe we will see new “story platforms” that let creators adapt them to various media while still working within the confines of the story itself.

Mr. Wolf Insurance sells you insurance to protect you from damages when your online presence being damaged, the same way Geico insures your car or home. Instead of sending a human being to your home, Mr Wolf uses video calls+deep learning to authenticate you and make this really scaleable.

But what if you could design a new story+characters+universe that was meant to work across all the above? Imagine something designed to be a book and a TV series and a movie and a theme park ride and a game and have it be possible within the storytelling and universe of the IP itself.

1. “Mr.Wolf for online security”

But what if we had algorithms that a) knew us and b) optimized for what we consider is in our best interests and matches our priorities.

4. Personal attention optimization

How do you know when to break into a conversation in a virtual meeting without interrupting someone else? How do you re-construct the aimless but essential conversations that happen during a Friday casual demo hour with food? The esprit de corps of a well-constructed all hands that fires everyone up? And I’ve never seen anyone conduct a productive ... See more