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Maverick Stories: Brave New Worlds Episode 6 — What Could Go Wrong? Published 9 March 2023 – ID G00781892 – 7 min read

By Analyst(s): Bill Menezes, Marty Resnick, Marko Sillanpaa

Initiatives: Digital Future

Robert, the head of Earth operations for 2B Enterprises, is not

pleased at losing the coveted Titan project to Avery. Plans are

afoot, and Robert will use his talents for malinformation to use the

evolving multinational — and soon, interplanetary — rules and

power structures to get what he wants.

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worlds we are creating (the metaverse) and expanding into (space).

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Stories are a powerful means of communication. When done well, they heighten

engagement, assist with recall and distill complexity to its essence. Effective leaders use

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This story is part of a series that takes readers on a journey inspired by the trends

presented in Brave New Worlds: Tapestry of Trends 2022 by Gartner Futures Lab. Each

episode shows how a challenge or opportunity could present itself in your organization

in the (nearer than you think) future, conveyed in a moral at the story’s end.

See all the episodes in Maverick Stories: Brave New Worlds.

Episode 6: What Could Go Wrong?

“You know, we don’t really need to maintain this conference room,” Joanna said, briskly

entering the physical space where Robert — standing alone at a huge, rectangular

mahogany table identical to the one in the recently terminated virtual meeting room —

bent over several multitouch projected interfaces, frowning and swiping. “Isn’t it a bit

much of a throwback?”

Robert ignored the advice, which he’d heard before. “Did they really think I’d be satisfied —

on this world or any other — with restoring some rock in the middle of the Gulf of

Mexico?” Robert said, evenly. “I don’t care if the place becomes a new underwater reef. I

deserve to expand my reach to include Titan. And it’s what you know I’ll get.”

“Caribbean,” Joanna replied, while opening and swiping through two of her own interfaces

projected over the meeting table “It’s actually a pretty nice place, potentially very lush. The

island I mean. Titan’s a hole. Tell me again why it’s not rational for you to successfully

execute on your new acquisition to at least maintain the illusion of a good corporate

son?”

“Only my usual desire to focus on one thing — getting Avery out of the picture, in this

case. To do it well and move on,” Robert said, in what Joanna privately called his ‘Harvard

voice.’ “You know that will set up everything else. It only begins with Titan. I suppose given

Earth Ops now owns it, we can accommodate the island, if we must. Damn thing’s almost

finished anyway.”

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Joanna smirked, musing how Robert’s overwhelming sense of entitlement was exceeded

only by his vision and his brilliance in creating and executing an epically disruptive

shadow strategy for himself and for 2B. She enjoyed her position. Robert was that rarity at

2B who afforded themselves the luxury of a physical chief of staff. He still didn’t believe

he could sync mentally or emotionally enough with a virtual aide de camp like that weirdo

AVA who served Emily. And while he liked working with D, he needed more out of his right

hand. So, for the past 15 years he’d had Joanna as his fixer.

She was as brilliant as Robert, expertly helping shape and execute his corporate strategy

while remaining loyal to a fault. Joanna remained willing to challenge Robert — or even at

times undermine him — to keep advancing their shared goals. Whereas good old “Dad”

didn’t seem to have much of a vision beyond the achievement of winning the Titan

project, Robert saw that in the future, space efforts would position companies with a

political power that is usually reserved for governments. A prospect he found quite

appetizing. Of course, he couldn’t do that while bound only to Earth Operations; adding

Titan would give him the physical and virtual position and assets to use the colony as the

foothold toward real colonization. He and Joanna already had gamed out the risks of

toothless sanctions and fines that could accrue as they pushed or broke the boundaries of

the emerging rule-making framework that, if followed, would unduly hamstring 2B’s rise as

a corporate nation once the Titan enterprise had rapidly expanded outward.

“The 2B Way is the Future Way” was the mantra he and Joanna had shared as they had

gone about the often ugly business of quietly ripping up and replacing old 2B systems

and power structures, creating shadow operations supported by false fronts and active

disinformation in the metaverse. Their enterprises had always been productive. Here, a

deep-sea mining operation to grab terrestrial raw materials while developing the tech

needed for ultra-high-pressure infrastructure on Titan. There, a franchise licensing

apparatus generating cash, credits and political power everywhere that humans and bots

had ventured so far. Behind them always were operating structures answering to Robert’s

corporate domain, his control reaching deep into 2B’s systems, largely hidden from even

the most stringent auditing with the help of arcane accounting, cryptoledgers and a far-

flung brigade of toadies. Not the least of whom would eventually be that imbecile

Blanche, Robert mused.

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But now, Avery’s elevation to head of the Titan operation was already causing problems

beyond the ego bruises. Robert knew intuitively that Jane was convinced Avery would

succeed with Titan without any expansive personal agenda. The meeting to nominally

discuss, then act on Avery’s promotion had been a joke, but only a slight surprise. Robert

was used to Tony shunting him aside now and then; old “Dad” had made it clear that he

believed it kept Robert honest and striving. Going for the gold instead of settling for the

silver. But Tony’s choice of Avery, with Jane’s smiling assent, was troubling, especially as it

gutted the confidential deals Robert had arranged to benefit 2B once he headed Titan

construction. The more deeply Avery became embedded in the project, the more likely they

could connect the dots that led back to Robert as they navigated the huge scope of 2B

businesses, resources and alliances needed to colonize Titan.

Robert also knew Avery’s personal connection with Emily created risks. If Emily figured out

the threads among all the deep-space brushfires she kept encountering on her little test

run trip, it wouldn’t take long for that pair to start unraveling his fabric. Joanna, as usual,

was already gaming out what could happen and how to prevent it.

“Think we overdid it with the Interlink7 team?” she asked, looking up from her displays.

“That’s likely to get a full-bore response from our noble CIO. We’ve shielded the causes

pretty well, but…”

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“At this point they’re backtracing activity logs, combing source code, examining new

engineering specs,” Robert replied. “Checking residences. That’s what we would do. It’s

what we made sure AVA would do, at least initially.”

“They’ll burn days trying to find that team before they figure out our anomalies and

deepfakes that ‘accidentally’ sent them to an entirely different sector. Even when they

figure it out, the breadcrumbs will only lead them to Blanche. That will give us time to deal

with Avery. If we can’t dig up anything to use from their time on the island so far, it will at

least be easy enough to make them look like financial malefactors.”

Joanna gazed at him blankly.

“You realize that all these resources you’ve lined up, all of the leveraging you want to do of

the trust that 2B has built, trust that legacy governments could never build… if you directed

all that effort toward a different agenda, you could create something, not just bigger, but

better than 2B?” she asked. “Just saying…”

“Yes, yes, we’ve discussed this before,” Robert sighed. “And you’re right as usual, of course

there are a lot of other directions we could go with this. For now, though, the plan is

working, and we are at the right level of control.”

“I mean… what could go wrong?”

Moral

In an increasingly multipolar world, the evolution of global

institutional trust may give rise to unscrupulous operators who,

armed with sophisticated technological means for creating their

own “truth,” create the potential for wreaking commercial havoc in

achieving their ends.

Evidence Tapestry trends this story refers to:

Global institution trust transformation■

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Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2023: Metaverse

CIO New Year’s Resolutions for 2023

Infographic: Impact Map of the Metaverse

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Emergence of decision-making systems■

Multipolarity■

Malinformation■

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Maverick Stories: Brave New Worlds Episode 5 — Challenged by Digital Triplets Published 16 February 2023 – ID G00781891 – 7 min read

By Analyst(s): Adam Preset, Marty Resnick, Marko Sillanpaa

Initiatives: Digital Future

Leading from the front takes on new meaning as Emily, multiversal

CIO of 2B Enterprises, takes her job to the next level by remote

working from space. When her day-to-day activities are interrupted

by an emergency, she calls on the advisors she trusts the most:

digital versions of herself!

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ideas that challenge conventional thinking. Part of the Gartner Futures Lab, it is designed

to explore alternative opportunities and risks that could influence your strategy.

Maverick Caution: This research breaks new ground by introducing a new type of

organization that is multiversal, operating not only in our world but also in the brave new

worlds we are creating (the metaverse) and expanding into (space).

Introduction

Stories are a powerful means of communication. When done well, they heighten

engagement, assist with recall and distill complexity to its essence. Effective leaders use

stories as a shortcut to audience understanding — a necessary step before action.

Gartner is experimenting with telling stories to achieve precisely these things. We

encourage you to leave a star rating at the bottom of your screen, or email us here, to let us

know if you valued this.

Brave New Worlds

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This story is part of a series that takes readers on a journey inspired by the trends

presented in Brave New Worlds: Tapestry of Trends 2022 by Gartner Futures Lab. Each

episode shows how a challenge or opportunity could present itself in your organization

in the (nearer than you think) future, conveyed in a moral at the story’s end.

See all the episodes in Maverick Stories: Brave New Worlds.

Episode 5: Challenged by Digital Triplets

A crisis was waiting for Emily. The lights came up gently just as a faint digital chirp

sounded, then a smooth artificial voice chimed in.

Good morning, boss. Welcome to day 37 of your commute. Priority alert.

“AVA, I thought it would be funny, but you can stop saying that now. Wait, what?” AVA, her

ambient virtual assistant, complied, and would greet Emily differently from now on. The

morning briefing started while Emily readied for the day. V, her exact twin in the mirror,

spoke while Emily brushed her teeth.

“Hi, Prime. An entire dev team is unaccounted for.”

“Which one? Earth or Verse? For how long? And how does that even happen?” Emily

asked, taken aback at the news.

“The Interlink7 team. Blended, including some bots. A little over 24 hours. No signals from

any of them. It’s unprecedented.” V, Emily’s AI digital twin, imprinted with most of her

strengths, was delegated CIO control of the 2B metaverse office. They had agreed that

“Emily Verse” was too long a name, weirdly impersonal, and dumb.

“V, what are we doing?”

“Sending drones to residences. Backtracing the activity logs. Combing the source code

and any new engineering specs.”

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“That’s what I would do. What do you think? Corporate espionage? Negligence?

Kidnapping and ransoming? Is it possible that UbiquiBuild is up to something?”

“Varying probabilities,” said V. “Countermeasures are mostly the same. Firewalling and

forensics. Should AVA conference in Emily Titan for consultation or a tabletop exercise?”

“Yes.”

Being multiversal CIO of 2B Enterprises had perks. The Interlink that connected Earth, the

Verse, and Emily’s flight path was solid. Her traffic was prioritized. The cabin was

luxurious. Her home office was state-of-the-art. At the moment, home for her, along with a

few hundred others, was this cruiser in space. When 2B said “work from anywhere,” it

meant it.

A condition of Emily’s multiyear contract had required face-to-face time in 2B’s physical

domains. The CEO was old-fashioned. Emily was only 45, but to accomplish anything

across three worlds meant being in it for the long haul. It might mean going to Titan. If

someone had to pilot leading from space, she was the natural fit. It took surprisingly long

for the joke about the commute to get old, but Emily was over it. The weeks in Earth’s orbit

were blurring together. In about 25 more days they would land, having completed an

unparalleled test of the distributed tech they would use on the journey to Titan.

Emily was always spread too thin and taking on too much. The organization was getting

too large, the technology too complex, and competition for human talent unconscionably

aggressive. But space was strangely serene. The residential tech included timed

aromatherapy. Citrus lingered in the air. Everything was clean and calm like a spa, and

Emily’s burnout was fading. But she was still working, and her best answer was to lean on

the tech. She could trust more human lieutenants if she could find them, but she trusted

herself more. Her way of managing time better was to neuro-map and make more Emilies.

Emily Prime walked to a hologram wall. T, Emily Titan, an experiment, appeared as a

bluish-green translucent three-dimensional image, identical in features but with

insubstantial physicality. It was a cultural thing. Psychological profiling data was starting

to indicate that humans were uneasy about artificial supervisors looking too real. People

weren’t wired to respond positively to neuro-algorithmic clusters that pretended to be

something else.

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V and T were in sync in a few microseconds, including a transmission of the conversation

from the last few minutes. T spoke aloud for Emily’s benefit after a short burst of static.

“Interlink6 is working pretty well. My understanding was that Interlink7 was just an

optimization. Could the team have gone offline for testing?”

Emily paused. “Anything is possible. An entity would probably have logged that. I’m

worried. The new stuff is not designed from scratch, so any new code contains a lot of 2B

legacy IP. You can’t be a multiversal org without data fabric connection protocols like

ours. Even if we can’t always do real-time, our asynchronous is faster than anybody’s.”

She was restating what all three of them knew. The Interlink was foundational to

multiversal collaboration. One day, conditions on Titan would be replicated in near-infinite

models in the Verse, and Earth analysts would be able to validate the most promising

refinements or alterations to strategy and ops.

But what would happen if a competitor got hold of the Interlink? It would be a long game

to try to outpace 2B. Decades. But even just disrupting the fabric would stop work in three

worlds.

Emily talked to herself for a few minutes while drinking coffee. The artificials were a good

sounding board. They knew her patterns — they were her patterns — and they could

challenge her. The three of them made a plan of action. They held off on activating Emily

Earth, E, a fail-safe that could go online if the Interlink went offline.

V asked, “Should one of us notify Earth Ops and Space Ops?”

“Notify Earth Ops through your Verse counterpart, please, and I’ll handle Space,” said

Emily. It would be an excuse to talk to her best friend, Avery, head of Space Ops. “I’m

awake now and we know what we’re doing. AVA, I realize we didn’t go beyond the priority

alert. Anything else I should know?”

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Routine activities. Some team reorgs to rebalance human and artificial ratios. A support

swarm to respond to an unannounced vendor code update. Termination of a supplier due

to unmet XLA. Tripwire signal on minor perimeter attack, yellow flag, contained.

“What? An ineffective denial of service?”

Attempted access of employee records.

“More detail, please. Any action required from me at this time?”

InfoSec and Entity Resources report containment of attempted hack and investigation in

progress. Specific personnel files were targeted. Subject: Avery, Head of Space Ops.

“AVA, let’s make that call. Right now.”

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Moral

Virtual personal assistants, chatbots, avatars and generative AI

may combine in new ways, even as versions of ourselves, to

enable us to play to our strengths, compensate for our

weaknesses and advance our work. As work becomes more <

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