We do not know exactly what comes next. Good.
The long view gives eFind permission to explore devices, robotics, mobility, infrastructure and computing beyond the products people use today.
Some ideas graduate.
eGlass is one of them. It now belongs in the product portfolio alongside eWatch, eDrive and eTag rather than on the speculative roadmap.
Explore eGlass →We would be worried if the roadmap were already finished.
A long time horizon is not an excuse to make vague promises. It is permission to ask questions that do not fit neatly into the next release cycle.
Some of the ideas below may become products. Some may become enabling technology inside another product. Some may be replaced by better ideas before we build them. That is what the labels are for.
A future that cannot surprise us would be a rather dull future.
eGlass
eGlass has moved out of the Long View and into the eFind product portfolio.
Explore the idea →Robotics
Intelligence becomes different when it can bump into furniture.
Explore the idea →Skyblade
Autonomous mobility by eFind—if we can earn the right to build it.
Explore the idea →eFly
Flying is easy. Flying safely, quietly and economically is the interesting part.
Explore the idea →eDeliver
A purchase is not finished when somebody clicks Buy.
Explore the idea →Local market
New customer
Order paid
eMarket
Making something valuable is only half the economic problem.
Explore the idea →eFind Orbital
Space is useful when it solves a problem on Earth.
Explore the idea →Advanced Computing
The next computer may look less like a faster version of the last one.
Explore the idea →The products are different. The capabilities underneath them rhyme.
ePhone asks what happens when intelligence changes the phone interface. Robotics, Skyblade, eFly and eDeliver ask what happens when intelligence enters the physical world. Orbital and Advanced Computing ask what infrastructure those experiences could eventually require. eMarket asks whether the same ecosystem can help create economic opportunity as well as convenience. eGlass has already graduated from this page into the product portfolio.
That does not mean all of them should become products. It means a capability built for one question may unlock another. Maps can matter to local discovery today and autonomy later. Identity matters on a website and even more on a device. Efficient compute matters to an answer on a screen and to the infrastructure bill underneath it.
Broad vision.
Specific next steps.
The long view is allowed to be enormous. Execution has to remain narrow enough to do something well. We want to earn the next layer by making the current one useful.