Google glass were met with curiosity but eventually raised strong opposition for their potential intrusiveness, a omnipresent Peeping Tom, to the point they were banned from several places. Oculus Rift are cumbersome and surely not suitable for moving around. True augmented reality glasses, affordable and seamless for a mass market …

The disparity in the world healthcare among Countries is huge, as shown in the World Bank data, and, unfortunately, it is no April fools. Bet869ween the Gambia 20$ and the US 9869$ per person per year there is a factor of 493! Now, one might observe that the value of …

LIght Detection And Ranging, LIDAR, is a technology used to create an exact tridimensional map of the environment. It is not a new technology, it started in the 1960ies as a way to map the Earth surface from an airplane. The airplane was equipped with a laser generating pulses and …

What has been described is a technology possibility based on the concept of PDT, that in the near future, within this decade, can help in detecting and containing an epidemic, well before it turns into a pandemic. The various players have been considered and their possible roles/responsibilities identified.  Most importantly, …

The evolution of Digital Twins is towards the acquisition of an autonomous role, i.e. a digital twin may start to act as an autonomous entity performing task on behalf of its physical twin. Although this is a natural evolution as digital twins shift from a static copy to a dynamic …

Face recognition has become a well known biometric access method when Apple included it in the iPhone X. From that moment on people started to appreciate the convenience of just looking and be granted access. I was at Boston Logan airport few months ago and I didn’t have to use …

So far I claimed that PDT could help in the negotiation of boundary between the personal sphere and the societal sphere creating an intermediate space where the overlapping of the two can be on the one hand regulated by an authority (under the advice of a healthcare institution) and on …

A crucial aspect in epidemic control is the capability to involve a whole community and obtain compliance to the set of rules defined by the Healthcare Institutions and imposed by the Government through a regulatory framework. The best way to achieve compliance is through awareness, If people understand what is …

I received this articulated comment from Derrick de Kerckhove that I find thought provoking and I am pleased to share it here, along the sequel on Personal Digital Twins in the epidemic context. Regarding both the viral threat of Covid-19 and the haphazard regulatory reactions of the world’s governments, the …

We are going through something that just 3 months ago was unthinkable and I am amazed how, overall and through the endeavour of millions people around the world, we are copying with it. We are lucky to have a worldwide communications infrastructure, Internet (but it is actually a mesh of …