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2. There is a growth of Medical Cyber-Physical Systems (MCPS), basically resulting from the interconnection of several devices and systems in the medical landscape. As these devices and systems become smarter, able to acquire, process and make sense of data (through artificial intelligence) they are playing a bigger role in …

As the epidemics in Italy keeps growing to an alarming rate (and so it does in several other Countries) measures have been taken to limit the mobility of people, thus decreasing the chance of contact and spread. Yet, it seems that a few Italians keep moving around. How many? Well, …

Just few days ago I reported on the decrease of CO2 emission in China as result of the slow down of manufacturing following the measures taken to contain the spread of the Covid-19. Now I stumbled onto images of the amazing decrease of NO2, Nitrogen Dioxide, over China. These images …

Although a full fledged epidemic control based on “personal Digital Twins” is still several years away, we can see that the approach of the South Korean government is along these lines. The Korean Center for Disease Control, KCDC, has organised an impressive collection of data from smartphones location (tracked by …

Two days ago I was asked if a widespread adoption of personal digital twins would help in controlling the ongoing Covid-19 epidemic. I tried to provide a sensible answer to a science fiction like question… If you read Italian you can find it here. Let me summarise it. Since the …

ECommerce keeps growing worldwide although the overall growth is, slightly, slowing down worldwide, a possible indication of an approaching plateau in penetration. The overall worldwide retail market (excluding tickets for events, travel, pubs and gambling) has reached 25 trillion $ in 2019 and 3.5 trillion of these have been transacted …

Radical Life Extension The Human life span has increased considerably if one looks back in time. Just 200 years ago life expectation was at least 20 years shorter than today. However, if one looks at the maximum age recorded (it gets more and more difficult to have an accurate reporting …

Democracy 2.0 Wiston Churchill once said: The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter underlining that the average voter does not have the knowledge and political skill needed to cast an appropriate, aware vote (this goes hand in hand with Bertrand Russel aphorism: Democracy- …

  Lots of discussion and news on the coronavirus, ranging from a terrifying epidemic/pandemic to just another flu-like epidemic, just slightly more dangerous (I am leaning more on the second). One point, however, is clear. The influence on this “flu” on the business and on way of living of people …

Posted on behalf of Louis Nisiotis and Lyuba Alboul As a result of the recent outbreak of COVID-19 and the wide-reaching recommendations for discouraging or even prohibiting large gatherings, many conferences, concerts, matches and tournaments, and various meetings have either being postponed, cancelled or changed venues, with some of them deciding to …