Rob Tyrie
Grey Swan Guild
Published in
5 min readSep 14, 2024

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Press Release Jan 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Insurance Future Fiction Federation (website: https://www.ironstoneadvisory.com/if3)
Email: ceo@ironstoeadvisory.com
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Insurance Future Fiction Federation (IF³) Unveils a Sci-Fi Inspired Vision for the Future of Insurance, Powered by AI

[Toronto, Canada and NYC] – Today, the Insurance Future Fiction Federation (IF³) announces its bold new initiative to reimagine the future of insurance, combining the visionary thinking of science fiction with the cutting-edge like the capabilities of AI, blockchain, and digital simulations. Drawing inspiration from both hard and soft sci-fi, IF³’s Future Fiction Framework brings to life a futuristic vision of insurance technology, as audacious and innovative as the works of Cory Doctorow, Daniel Suerez, and Ann Leckie.

At the center of this initiative is the “Future AI Insurance Matrix”, an imagination of an AI-powered, highly scalable, secure system designed to revolutionize risk assessment, policy management, and claims processing. This system embodies the speculative nature of sci-fi writing and ideas along with future fiction, scenario building, broadcasting, backcasting, weird casting etc. The results and reports will be offering practical, real-world, possible and probable solutions in the future to insurers as they cross the chasm from innovation to adoption.

Sci-Fi Meets Insurance Innovation

The Insurance Future Fiction Federation (IF³) is not just another industry think tank. It’s a collective of systems thinkers, insurance professionals, and visionaries who believe in the power of speculative fiction to shape and influence real-world technology. The Insurance Matrix is the result of this thinking—a fully integrated, AI-powered ecosystem that automates and optimizes every facet of insurance.

Rob Tyrie, Founder of IF³ and it’s labs, explains:
“We wanted to borrow the imaginative and daring perspective of science fiction and apply it to insurance. The Insurance Matrix is built to be as innovative and forward-thinking as the most progressive sci-fi works. It’s a vision that blends creativity with practicality, offering a clear path to technological adoption for insurers across the globe. I want to thank the Grey Swan Guild because I couldn’t have done this without the leaders and the community there”

The Insurance Matrix: Science Fiction Meets Technology

Inspired by modern speculative fiction, the Insurance Matrix is an advanced, AI-powered system that integrates multiple technologies to create a dynamic, self-sustaining insurance ecosystem. Key features include:

Artificial Intelligence (AI): Transforming risk assessment, predictive modeling, and decision-making with real-time data analysis. The Insurance Matrix anticipates and responds to claims and customer needs, much like the futuristic AI found in modern sci-fi.

Blockchain: Providing secure, decentralized transactions for policy management, smart contracts, and identity verification.

Simulation and Digital Twins: Using real-time digital twin models of insured assets to improve risk assessments and scenario planning, inspired by speculative sci-fi worlds where the line between real and virtual is blurred.

Predictive Analytics: Creating dynamic, personalized insurance products based on continuously evolving risk profiles and multi-dimensional data sources.

This system bridges the speculative "what-ifs" of sci-fi with practical solutions to help insurance companies adopt cutting-edge technologies.

The Future Fiction Framework: A New Path to Technology Adoption

IF³’s Future Fiction Framework provides a clear roadmap for insurance companies looking to cross the chasm from innovation to full-scale adoption. It’s a sci-fi-inspired framework powered by AI, blockchain, and simulation technologies. This framework helps insurers integrate futuristic technology into their everyday operations, offering unprecedented scalability and security.

Rob Tyrie notes:
“The Future Fiction Framework is the intersection of imagination and technology. We believe that by embracing the future through the lens of science fiction, insurance companies can adopt transformative technologies that not only improve operations but also reimagine what insurance can be in the future.”

Introducing the First Insurance Future Fiction Workbook in 2024

As part of IF³’s mission to blend science fiction with real-world technology, the first Insurance Future Fiction Workbook will be released in 2024. This workbook will feature 20 stories about the future of insurance, created and envisioned by systems thinkers and insurance professionals from around the world. Each story will explore a unique perspective on how insurance could evolve in the coming decades.

In homage to Twitter and Hemingway, the workbook will also include a series of 50 six-word stories on the future of insurance. This creative twist highlights the importance of brevity and imagination, taking inspiration from Hemingway’s famous six-word story. To contribute, insurance professionals, writers, and thinkers can submit their six-word stories directly to rob+if3@ironstoneadvisory.com, or post submissions on the Ironstone Advisory LinkedIn page.

Rob Tyrie adds:
“This workbook will be a creative expression of what the future of insurance could look like, featuring stories from across the globe. The six-word stories pay tribute to both Twitter and Hemingway, and we hope it sparks a conversation about the future of insurance that’s as visionary as the best science fiction.”

About the Insurance Future Fiction Federation (IF³)

The Insurance Future Fiction Federation (IF³) is a pioneering think tank that combines speculative fiction with the latest advancements in AI, blockchain, and simulation technologies to revolutionize the insurance industry. Through its Insurance Matrix and Future Fiction Framework, IF³ helps insurers innovate, adopt, and scale next-generation technologies. Is a specialized lab to create ideas, thoughts and working systems based on large language models in custom generative pre-train transformers. It is a spin-off from Ironstone and an independent lab in the making.

For more information, visit: ironstoneadvisory.com/if3

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This press release highlights the launch of IF³ and its Future Fiction Workbook, emphasizing the sci-fi inspiration behind its vision for insurance innovation in the next thousand days.

This future release is a conception of Rob Tyrie , the founder of Ironstone advisory. He likes to drive around his Jeep. He is looking forward to acquiring a star link satellite dish so he can boon-dock a bit. His old ride, a 1979 Porsche 911 SC, hand assembled in Germany, is now for sale because it’s time to pass things on. If you have a fast car you should drive it or give it to someone, for a good price, who will. Rob creations, manifestations with intentions and feed forward mechanisms, like this one, to create the future.

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Rob Tyrie
Grey Swan Guild

Founder, Grey Swan Guild. CEO Ironstone Advisory: Serial Entrepreneur: Ideator, Thinker, Maker, Doer, Decider, Judge, Fan, Skeptic. Keeper of Libraries