Lenses for Time, Distance and Knowledge

Many of us wear glasses or contacts, and these lenses have changed our lives for the better.  Many of our daily tasks and jobs simply require good eyesight, to read, drive, inspect, monitor, track our kids, and manage operations.  Many of us would age out of our jobs, not because of our mental limitations, but because of degraded eyesight.

Lenses have not only improved our world and extended our productive years, but they have expanded our world.  They have stretched our vision to reach across the land with binoculars, and across the universe with telescopes.  They have even enabled us to zoom in and discover entirely new ecosystems and complex worlds teeming beneath our microscope lenses.

In the past, we needed to be physically connected, or at least intimately close to these lenses to experience the benefits.  Today, however, we can attach lenses to satellites, cameras, spacecraft, drones, submarines, and sensors by the billions to capture data and/or stream these enhanced views back to us - no matter our locations.

All these enhanced views contain data, insights and information that easily can overwhelm us if it wasn’t for our computers, analytic platforms, digital twins, Internet of Things platforms, automation, algorithms, and artificial intelligence.  These technologies bring into focus our newly expanded worldview.