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The magic word "platform" has lost over the years some lustre. It became so common that everybody was busy creating, or at least talking about creating, a platform. In some circles, I see it in the management committee of the EIT ICT LABS, when you see a proposal for an …

The amazing variety of data that are at our disposal enables us to get answers we never dreamt before, and even more important they allow us to formulate new questions.  It is usual to think about how you got the flu. I was in the pub and a guy started …

This is clearly the one billion dollar question entrepreneurs and investors would like to have answered. And although we know fairly well what the potential evolution of technology performance is going to be in the coming 5 years, and we can have pretty good confidence over a 10 year horizon, …

Whilst the production of energy from splitting atoms has been achieved in the last century (on December 2nd, 1942 for those history buffs among you) the controlled production of energy through fusion of two atoms (normally He, or alpha particles) has eluded scientists in spite of the many efforts all over …

Of course you remember Goethe’s masterpiece Faust. He was living a successful life and yet he was not satisfied, he wanted some more and to have that he made a deal with the Devil. Well, i was brought back to this when reading a news about a start up offering …

Well, you just tell! When you are with your toddler you show him a cat and you just say: "look at that cat". On the other hand if a dog passes by you would tell him: "Hey, look at that dog". And in a little while (a few months, actually) your …

Our brain creates representation of ourselves and of the ambient around us. The representation of ourselves is made through proprioceptors, "sensors" that inform the brain on the position of our limbs, our head, our body. The representation of the ambient takes place mostly through our eyes. That is not the …

After the growing availability of 4k televisions and Apple Mac Pro supporting 4k rendering and screens it was just a matter of "what are they waiting for", with they meaning the digital camera manufacturers! And here we have the fist DSRL camera announce, the DMC-GH4 from Panasonic, to deliver 4k video (actually the …

I have followed the evolution of technology for the sequencing of the (human) genome for quite a few years now and there was a milestone to be reached by 2014: the 1,000$ cost for a complete genome sequencing. That is 10 years after the first sequencing at a cost of …

If I don’t ask you you know what a city is, but if I ask you you don’t. This happens in many areas where there are many possibile definitions that you really never consider in everyday life but as you start to think about it then you see that many …