Orbis vis, the coming digital ecosystem in the cloud connecting all things to all humanity

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I have come off a powerful meeting of minds and conversation with David Soo; one of the world’s emerging thought leaders and technology developers around the future of everything in Virtual Space.

I have come off a powerful meeting of minds and conversation with David Soo; one of the world’s emerging thought leaders and technology developers around the future of everything in Virtual Space.

David is the inventor of Orbis vis – the world’s first Internet Cloud Operating System or ICOS.

For the technical guys, the ICOS allows all applications and devices to communicate and interchange data without the need for inefficient and costly development of API’s. These are functions and procedures that allow the creation of applications which access the features or data of an operating system, application, or other service. Orbis provides the platform for all IoT’s (Internet of Things) and applications to work with each other.

As a technology layman, I asked David what this actually means for the average person and he said

Orbis vis is the fabric that binds all data in ways compatible with humanity and which connects all things to all people. David Soo

Orbis vis is the faNow that idea got my attention! As I listened more to David I began to understand that what David and his team are doing is taking the Internet of Things and the Cloud to a whole new level of serving humanity, starting with why – this is 3rd Gen Internet of Things.bric that binds all data in ways compatible with humanity and which connects all things to all people. David Soo

Now that idea got my attention! As I listened more to David I began to understand that what David and his team are doing is taking the Internet of Things and the Cloud to a whole new level of serving humanity, starting with why – this is 3rd Gen Internet of Things.

A key theme that runs through my writing and collaborations these days is that we are living at a time of tremendous opportunity to do more with more for humanity by engaging the power of the internet of things at scale, starting with why.

The Future of Work and the Future of Business is about the power of connectivity to collaborate to do much good at scale from the wholeness of things. I call this the Summit Room and the Social Room.

Here, everyone gets to create and tell their stories as authentic individuals, as #Me, and connect these stories with the stories of others to form #MeWe collaborative communities to serve humanity through the architecture of wholeness.

Wholeness means connecting the three key elements of the internet of things – people, data and stories.  The internet of things and the cloud of things is enabling the age old storytelling as the core of imagination to be restored and extended at scale for a better world by bringing more personal stories into play, enabled by the new data. The people and the story are the why, the data is what and how. The more people, stories and data we can bring into the Two Rooms, the more contribution we can make together for do humanity and a better world at scale.

I recently did a keynote at the World Wide Festival of the Web on the subject of Collaboration as the new Innovation and collaboration starts with why, not what or how, these follow why.

So much of the potential power of the internet of things to serve humanity through the restoration and extension of the wholeness of things is yet to be realised. I believe Orbis vis has potential as positive disrupter to change this as it will bring a new level, experience and capability of connectedness.

A few years ago, Simon Sinek did a brilliant Ted Talk in which he discusses a key Principal behind how the great leaders inspire action; starting with a golden circle and the question why?

Simon said that most businesses try to sell their products or services around what or how, rather than why, which are the beliefs people have about the world. Positive belief systems tap into the intrinsic human need to contribute to a better world, to be a positive force for good, whether this is a common cause – such as ending slavery – or collaborating to innovate a new technology, such as airplane flight. An example are Orville and Wilbur Wright who invented, built and flew the world’s first successful airplane. I quote from the Wright Story.

‘The Wright Brothers changed the way we view our world. Before flight became commonplace, folks travelled in just two dimensions, north and south, east and west, crossing the lines that separate town from town, nation from nation. Seen from above, the artificial boundaries that divide us disappear. Distances shrink, the horizon stretches. The world seems grander and more interconnected. This three-dimensional vision has revealed a universe of promises and possibilities. The world economy, our awareness of our environment, and space exploration are all, to some degree, the results of the inventive minds of the Wilbur and Orville Wright’.

The Wright brothers brought together a team that shared a collective why; about a dream for a connected and better world through flight. And the basis for what made the Wright’s brothers why possible was that they built their aircraft from a deep understanding of the Principles of Things. Others were experimenting with flight around what and how – the applications level – if you like without understanding the Principles. But it was the Wright Brothers who succeeded because they understood and applied these First Principles.

‘The Wrights were first to design and build a flying craft that could be controlled while in the air. Every successful aircraft ever built since, beginning with the 1902 Wright glider, has had controls to roll the wings right or left, pitch the nose up or down, and yaw the nose from side to side. These three controls – roll, pitch, and yaw – let a pilot navigate an airplane in all three dimensions, making it possible to fly from place to place. The entire aerospace business, the largest industry in the world, depends on this simple but brilliant idea. So do spacecraft, submarines, even robots.’

The crowd that met the Wright brothers when they returned home from Europe whilst flying in France – each time they flew they broke their existing records for flying time and distance. The brothers are in the carriage being drawn by four white horses.

If Simon Sinek discovered and brought to us the Principle of Why and the Wright Brothers the Principles of Travel in Three Dimensions; then David Soo has discovered what I call Principles for Operating from the Wholeness of Things in the Cloud.

David is embedding these Principles into at the very fabric of Orbis vis – what David calls a digital ecosystem that is compatible with humanity and connects all things to all people.

Orbis vis is a digital ecosystem that is compatible with humanity and connects all things to all people  David Soo

David tells me that attempts have been made in the past to create a cloud operating system and an internet operating system but never the two together as a concept. David’s team have cracked the code.

David

‘Current standards are obsolete and they will continue to be obsolete until we go back to what I would call the Classic Laws of Technology. Newton created the classic laws of physics and from this we were able to create our engineering standards. Whoever comes up with new engineering technology, it is still bound by Newton’s Laws of Physics.

If you look at society before Newton, there weren’t any skyscrapers because we didn’t know how to calculate the forces to keep things up – so everything was a bit fuzzy. The pyramids as amazing as they are were built from a big base because that was the only way to build it to the height they wanted. They didn’t understand how to calculate the tensile strength of steel which is inherent in building skyscrapers today.

We need standards for humanity – for civilisation – this is the level we are talking about here with our approach to Orbis vis. It is not just about technology but about everything. For example, one principle is about Knowledge which we define as ’the sum of everything that is given to us’

As David was sharing this with me, I thought this sounds different and intriguing. So I asked him – David, can you give me an example of a Principle – starting with Why?

His reply

All the oceans of the world are still the same body of water  David Soo

Pic source Amelia O’Donnell

Now that is seeing things from whole, not the parts of things!

I will be continuing to explore in my blogs with David Soo as my guest the emerging Principles for Operating from the Wholeness of Things in the Cloud and seeing how David and his global team are applying these principles to developing the Next Gen Cloud Platform to serve humanity –  Orbis vis.