Spatial computing as a first-class software primitive
Most enterprise software still treats the physical world as a form field. That will not be true for much longer.
In most enterprise software the world is a form field. A site is a string. An asset is a row. A hazard is a checkbox. The interface treats physical reality the way a nineteenth-century ledger did - as something to be described in text, then filed.
This works right up until the moment reality matters. On a construction site, in a port, in a factory, on a highway programme - the questions that actually decide the day are spatial. Where is it? What is next to it? Who is inside the exclusion zone right now? Which crew can reach it before shift change?
Our working thesis in the lab is straightforward: for a large class of industrial software, the primary object of the system should be a place, not a record. That is what we mean by Applied Spatial Intelligence. Every one of our digital twin projects - World Twin, Civic Twin, Maritime Twin, Virtual Factory - is a test of that thesis in a specific domain.
The next decade of enterprise software will belong to the teams that stop pretending the world is a form field.