Document type: Opportunity space


Authors: Alex Obadia


Date published: 11 July 2025


Version: 1


DOI: https://doi.org/10.67475/teewzw9-2mjb


 

Abstract

Software is transcending digital screens to shape the physical world, connecting cyber instructions to real-world outcomes. We are entering a new cyber-physical age that can bring great benefits for humanity: interactions like bioprinting medicines from an online file, tasking an embodied AI agent to run errands for us, or outsourcing an experiment to a self-driving lab are nearly within reach. 

Yet, without the right trust infrastructure, we risk every interaction to incur a steep ‘trust overhead’, making it slower, costlier, and less certain or worse, not happen at all. 

The solution is a new trust infrastructure that extends formal security reasoning into the physical world. This will unlock trillion-pound cyber-physical markets and a society free to trust everything, everywhere.

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