XtraMedium Communications is a Chicago based civic tech design & architecture consultancy for city managers and property developers dedicated to aggressive and creative use of IoT ‘next wave’ innovations to enable retail, hospitality, travel, live entertainment and consumer driven industries to thrive in hyperlocal retail corridors.

 What are the prospects for technology-driven economic growth? 

1st sentence of the introduction to the working paper

Artificial Intelligence and Recombinant Growth

by Ajay Agrawal, John McHale, and Alex Oettl.

Digital Decision Engines

We design and build apps that manage decisions across the public, private and autonomous devices of businesses and their customers.  Our platform is an outlet between app-use by consumers and the urban sensors and edge computing in smart cities.

The Array of Opportunity is our civic-tech initiative to transform distressed retail corridors of Opportunity Zones in the U.S.  The Array of Opportunity is a quadruple-helix collaboration for local and expanding entrepreneurs, municipal leaders, industry, and academia to identify research questions and commercial solutions comprising urban sensing, IoT devices, and other ‘next wave’ innovations.

By 2022, most small businesses will be operating across common neural networks between the corporations that lend their technological capabilities to these businesses and ordinary individuals through a network of apps. 

We want to organically create the Community cyberinfrastructures by enabling apps that increase the operational capacity of communities and more importantly, have the potential to remove personal judgement from financial, real estate, public safety and other consumer systems.