aCommerce

Autonomous agents, vehicles, and other machines will enter our lives and the economy between now and 2030, disrupting how we buy and sell. Autonomous Commerce is our name for the successor to PC-based electronic commerce and smartphone-based mobile commerce. We are developing frameworks to ensure that aCommerce not only benefits us as consumers, but enhances prosperity, the environment, our privacy, and the economy as a whole.

Analyses and Insights

aCommerce and Apparel and Retail

Apparel delivery and subscriptions end fast fashion, aiding the environment but decimating the retail industry

aCommerce and Mobility

Optimized traffic, autonomous transport, and micro-mobility replace cars, public transit, and other inflexible transit

aCommerce and Food

Swarm intelligence, personal agents and new home appliances eliminate wasted food, time, and money

aCommerce – Technical Architecture

Autonomy, mesh networks, machine vision, and other technologies combine to form a post-smartphone platform

The Economy under aCommerce

Microeconomic factors like transaction cost and non-financial currencies, as well as employment, supply chains, and business models

The Age of Autonomous Commerce

Societal, industrial, and economic impact as autonomous machines and intelligent agents enter the market

Scans and Snapshots

water transport

virtual city officials

vehicular automation

vehicle charging stations

underground autonomous transit network

trucks and vans

trolley problem

transaction cost

three laws of robotics

the third industrial revolution

telehealth for buildings

swarm intelligence

supply chain management

steel-girder skyscraper

smart furniture

smart autonomous

service industry

sensory internet

self-optimizing parks

self-healing material

self-driving stores

self-driving car

self driving car

robotic soldiers

robotic insects

robotic pest control

retail lighting

retail apocalypse

refrigerators and freezers

public robotic assistants

public electricity supply

pricing science

powered exoskeleton

post-retail economy

platform economy

organic photovoltaic materials

online marketplace

neuromorphic sensors

neighborhood microgrid

navigation and steering systems

molecular agriculture

microgrid storage

microbial fuel cell

mechatronics engineering

mechanical design

mechanical haptic

low operating costs

location based services

last-mile solutions

last-mile delivery

internet of things

internet of military things

information technology

industrial robot

industrial manufacturing

human computer interaction

home electronics

home security robots

harvesting computer heat

grocery delivery

great resignation

green consumer goods

global village mcluhan

fully-autonomous vehicles

frictionless city

frictionless transactions

food subscription boxes

first robotics competition

electronic shelf labels

electric vehicle charging

e-commerce platforms

driverless tractor

driverless vehicle

distributed treatment system

distributed utility storage

distributed_autonomous_organization_dao

distributed energy storage

digital strategy

digital marketing

digital clothing

delivery service

decentralized policing

deceitful robot

customer to customer

cruise autonomous vehicle

consumer electronics

congestion pricing

consensus algorithm

community governance

collision avoidance systems

collision mitigation

building avatar

brain-computer interface

barcode scanner

autonomous energy

autonomous control

autonomous firefighting vehicle

autonomous robot

auditory telehealth

artificial satellite

artificial skin

artificial general intelligence

artificial intelligence

artificial intelligence arms race

artificial empathy

agricultural monitoring

ai government agent

ai security agent