Buckendorf: Software is evolving from data fusion to predictive domain simulation
Philip Buckendorf · The Software Crisis Behind America's Infrastructure · Apr 28, 2025 · at 32:19
Philip Buckendorf, CEO of Airspace Intelligence, outlines the historical evolution of software architecture into predictive simulation tools.
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“I think now we're kind of at the very beginning of a new revolution, which is prediction machines, right? How do we actually build interfaces that are predicting what is about to happen? Like, what is the state of the operating domain? What is the state of our, of the supply chain? What is the state of the assets we're operating? Not just right now, but over the next hours, over the next days, over the next weeks. And how can we forward simulate that?”
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