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Every year Gartner publishes the Emerging Technology Hype-cycle and it is always worth dedicating some time to it. This year on the top of the hype there is “Social Distancing Technologies” and I guess it could have been expected! Looking at Google Trends you see that Social Distancing went from …

The Digital Transformation by drastically flattening the value chains, stimulating the aggregation of ecosystems (much easier in the world of bits) and accelerating the obsolescence of knowledge drives the emergence of new types of jobs and new ways of offering one’s expertise. This has already been pointed out in a …

Decoupling of CDT knowledge from the physical person The decoupling of a CDT from its physical twin can be leveraged in two opposite ways, as a proxy. and as an augmentation of the physical twin (it makes most sense when applied to a person) Both generate economic value and biz …

Digital Cameras, yes also the ones embedded in smart phones, have advanced functions for image recognition. The objective of those functions is to set the ideal focus and exposure to get a good photo. An experienced photographer might do a better job (although in cases where decision time is very …

Let’s face the fact: Artificial Intelligence has become a buzzword everybody knows although nobody would be able to really explain what it is…. The root of the world goes back to that famous paper calling to arms researchers for a summer project on artificial intelligence to be held at Dartmoor, …

I bet it happened to you. most likely several times, to check a flight on FlightAware.I travel quite a bit and the FlightAware app on my smartphone is always just a click away. Over the year I came to trust FlightAware more than the info provided by the airlines themselves, …

The last decade has been characterised by significant progress, and widespread use, of Artificial Intelligence, thanks to the abundance of data and the possibility of extracting meaning out of them. Of course, high performance computation and storage capabilities at very low cost made this feasible. This has led the big …

Platforms as enabler of business (and services) III OK, so after having discussed the evolution of API let’s go back to the use of platforms as enabler of the shift from products to services (and ecosystems). The evolution of products is first towards flanking them with add-on services (see graphic …

Platforms as enabler of business (and services) I What follows is the result of several interactions I had with key people (CEOs, CTOs, Directors) in several industries covering a broad spectrum of verticals, from mechanical to textile, from food to transportation. The general comment I got is that industry is …

PWC has released a report where it analyses the potential effect of automation on tasks involved in 200,000 jobs in 29 Countries. It makes for an interesting reading. Also, it contains an animated figure allowing you to explore the impact at different time in each of those 29 Countries. I …