Contributors
About the authors

Irena Cronin serves as CEO of Infinite Retina, which provides research and business strategy to help companies succeed in Spatial Computing. She was previously CEO of Transformation Group, which advised decision makers on business strategies related to Artificial Intelligence, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Machine Learning, Facial Recognition, Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and related disruptive technologies. Previous to this, she worked for several years as an equity research analyst and gained extensive experience of evaluating both public and private companies.

Cronin has a joint MBA/MA from the University of Southern California and an MS in Management and Systems from New York University. She graduated with a BA from the University of Pennsylvania with a major in Economics (summa cum laude). She has near-fluent proficiency in Mandarin, intermediate in Japanese, and beginner in Korean.

Robert Scoble is Chief Strategy Officer at Infinite Retina and works with companies that are implementing Spatial Computing technologies. He is a futurist and technology strategist and the author of three books about technology trends, being the first to report on technologies from autonomous vehicles to Siri. Previous positions include being a strategist at Microsoft, a futurist at Rackspace, and the producer and host of a video show about technology at Fast Company.