The next stop on the road to revolution is ambient intelligence

Gary Grossman is a futurist and public relations and communications marketing executive with Edelman. It's easy to see a rainbow when it's in the distance, but more difficult to discern when you are in its midst. Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, says the impending "transformation will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before." Digital technologies now surround us, with many people having multiple devices for business and personal use. When combined with the Internet of Things and its assortment of embedded sensors and connected devices in the home, the enterprise and the world at large, we will have created a digital intelligence network that transcends all that has gone before.