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New Realities As technology progresses the world of bits and the world of atoms fade into a single reality. However, this reality will be dependent on the mediation devices that will be used, both hardware and software devices. The rooting of reality into the devices used to capture it is …

The third area of Tech Trends in the FTI’s report is about the changing landscape of reality: New Reality -augmented, diminished, mixed, virtual Synthetic Reality/Media News and Information Summary Notice that none of these are “new” in the sense that they are not available today or were not present in …

“I like it”, and that is basically it!  When you taste a new dish, or a usual one, at home or at a restaurant you are not going into very many details on what you like, why you like it …. you eat and if you are happy … it …

Scoring This post happens on April 1st and to many of us, imbibed in the Western culture, it might seem an April prank. How could you possible think about a codified social monitoring leading to an appraisal of individual behaviour AND sharing this appraisal to everybody in your social circles …

The pervasiveness of Digital Signature The second scenario presented in the FTI’s report is focussing on Scoring and Recognition. It is interesting to notice that the very first line of this scenario states: Anonymity is dead Indeed, in spite of all the talks about privacy, the reality is that each …

I read the article on the Expansion newspaper, but you don’t need to go into it: the title says it all. Telecommunications Companies have lost one third of their revenues in the last ten years And the subtitle points out that these losses are in spite of a 50% surge …

The first topic addressed in the Future Today Institutes’s report is Artificial Intelligence and I concur in their choice: AI is bound to be the underlying force that will shape this decade and will change the landscape in the next one: autonomous vehicles personalised  and contextualised web-spaces aka Spatial Web …

The Future Today Institute has just released its annual analyses of macro trends. This year it is a special release in that the pandemic has created a disruption in our lives and in business. So it is particularly interesting to take a look at their analyses and foresight. As shown …

The complexity and sophistication of logistics chains is staggering. They are so good that to most of us they are invisible. We go to the supermarket and just pick up what we need from the shelf (we are surprised if the product we are looking for is not there, as …

If you enjoy a good steak you might be concerned of the plan to fade that steak away and replace it with alt-protein, that is protein created not by animal metabolism (read: cattle) but by alternative sources: plant fungi, yeast, algae, bacteria … cultured (created in the lab) There are …