tion Our visual sense is steering our perceptions, our dogs apparently are more influenced by the olfactory sense, but nevertheless vision is just part of the story. Unless the brain receives inputs from the other senses that confirm what the eyes are telling it will detect that something is weird …

We have been using tools for as long as we defined ourselves “human”, actually the use of tools pre-dates home sapiens, going back 2.3 million years ago at the time of homo habilis (we, sapiens, started to walk the world some 500,000 years ago). The Human-Tool interface was straightforward you …

I mentioned at the end of last post situations where digital world can represent a reality that is not to be found, pinpoint, in a specific physical objects. There is much more. Remember Second Life? In a few years it created a world wide mania where everybody wanted to develop …

Yesterday (or today, given the time difference) I participated at an Industry Panel, Roadmapping Communications Technologies, and from my part I discussed a few aspects of the Digital Reality Initiative run at FDC IEEE. As I was preparing for the talk I started to feel uneasy on the very name …

Our quest for cheap, usable energy is unrelenting. In these last few years we have added the additional requirement of sustainability both in terms of using renewable resources and i terms of using processes that are not affecting the environment (as an example, leveraging tides is surely a way to …

We have known for as long as we spotted unicellular organisms that they can react to their ambient, getting closer to palatable food and moving away from unfavourable encounter. However, so far scientists believed that the reaction of these little critters was cabled: you prompt them with the same stimulus …

At the recent AWS re-invent conference 2019 Amazon demonstrated DeepComposer, a music program that can take a few hints from your melody (you basically play a tune on a keyboard, even just a few notes) and use that hint to compose a structured musical piece. The result is a brand …

Rumours started to circulate earlier in 2019 on the interest of Apple to move to microLED technology for its devices displays. First the rumours were betting on a new Apple Watch dropping OLED screen in favour of microLED. More recent rumours are shifting the application to new Mac models to …

So what will happen next? I closed the (skimpy) overview of the present of telecommunications emphasising the growing role of data and AI. These are the key technologies that will transform communications in the next decades. Talking of decades, we have seen a basic cycle of ten years in wireless …

The new IEEE COMSOC Technical Committee Newsletter is out and you can read it here. It contains a number of very interesting technical articles and a short, candid,  interview I gave on the present and future of communications. Whilst the articles may need a bit of technical savvy to be …