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I was talking yesterday about managing drones traffic and I mentioned that every day (that was before the pandemic but everybody hopes those times will come back soon) there are some 100,000 flights around the world. Using services like FligthAware or FlightRadar one can follow air traffic on a computer …

As drones gained traction, both in the consumer market that has now reached several millions as well as in the business area where drones are really starting to be used and where they are expected to become part of industrial and delivery chains –2.4 million expected to ship in 2023-, …

So far research on artificial eye has focussed on the creation of chips to be implanted on the retina. The chip would contain light receptors and convert the data created by the receptors into electrical stimuli directed to the optical nerve. In some implementation, like Argus II, the chip does …

I am part of an initiative coordinated by Rohit Talwar, Fast Future, that aimed at creating scenarios for the post Covid-19 pandemic. Rohit has managed to involve hundred+ futurist around the world and in just a few weeks they provided their thoughts on possible futures. The first book including some …

The Gig economy has been hit by the Covid-19 containment actions like most other areas of economy but here the people making a living out of the gig economy have found themselves without any protection. No severance pay, no Government help. This is something that was pointed out in the …

In the World Economy, also thanks or because of the Digital Transformation, a growing role is played by the so called “Platform Economy”. This is the economy enabled by digital platforms and it supports both the Sharing Economy (like Airbnb) and the Gig Economy (like Foodora). The Sharing Economy is …

Artificial Intelligence has evolved to the point of making it possible to detect specific characteristics of a voice and then to imitate that voice through a speech syntheses application. It has become so effective that it created the issue of telling if the voice you hear is the one recorded …

In the previous posts I highlighted the acceleration to Digital Transformation, DX, caused by Covid-19 resulting in both upsides and downsides. However, what is seen today as a DX acceleration, the uptake of home working, home eduction, digital health care and so forth may end up in a slow down …

The ongoing  epidemic is placing healthcare infrastructures under stress and unless it is absolutely necessary you are asked not to go to a hospital but stay isolated at home. Doctors will be providing support by phone, telling you what to do. Clearly, it is a different quality of care from …

Last years Garmin announced an auto-landing feature for its navigation system. If a pilot is no longer able to fly the plane all it takes is a passenger to press a button for 2 seconds to engage the auto-landing system. You might object that we have had planes able to …