GIS is being influenced by and integrating with all kinds of new innovations such as faster computing, big data, the cloud, smart devices, and distributed processing.

ArcGIS Online is the complete hosted GIS in the cloud, supporting mapping and apps. Additions to this component have included smart mapping, formal metadata, better administration, and high-performance geocoding.

Cloud Computing can be miss pronounced as CLAWED COMPUTING because at the end of the day you are TRUSTING a flight in a giant Eagle's claw. Once you are in the flight. He can either CRUSH or LIBERATE you .

Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape.

Mapping and visualization is a huge area of work and is of interest to many people. We're working on reinventing a new kind of 3D cartography to make it easier to tell stories with 3D maps.

The blockchain allows our smart devices to speak to each other better and faster.