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The Pandemic Impact on the Gig Economy The recent pandemic hit the Gig Economy and possibly changed its evolution in two main ways: Emphasised the critical work environment with low societal protection Boosted the Gig Economy with, possibly, lasting effects Critical Work Environment The insecurity of work intrinsic in the …

Shopping “Born to Shop”. I remember seeing this on a t-shirt long long time ago in Carnaby Street, London, at a time when having writings on a t-short was new and eye catching. At those times Internet was yet to come and computers were nowhere to be seen in everyday …

The drone industry has kept growing in the last decade, taking on board the consumer market and extending the application range in commercial domain. Hence, it is a no brainer to predict that at least for 2020 this trend will continue. According to Drone Industry Insights report “Global Drone Outlook 2020: …

The first ready to fly drone targeting the mass market was released in 2010 by a French company, Parrot, at a price of 299$ (around 350$ in today’s money). The user could control it through an app on the iPhone. In these past 10 years drones targeting the mass market …

One of the defining characteristics of our human species is the way we communicate using voice. Very few other species have this capability and those having it show a very rudimentary set of “voice messages” (this obviously has a lot to do with the vocal apparatus as well as with …

Robots are becoming a ubiquitous presence in factories and warehouses. There are not just “more” robots, they are requiring and establishing a different relationship with human beings, actually I should say with their “co-workers”. This is a step in the direction foreseen by the Symbiotic Autonomous Systems Initiative (now merged …

Let’s move on and consider, in the consumer space, the existence of services like movies and music on demand. These are present in the cyberspace, in some clouds of a service provider, yet, once we subscribe, they are becoming part of our ambient, our home. Alexa may be a bridge …

At the recent AWS re-invent conference 2019 Amazon demonstrated DeepComposer, a music program that can take a few hints from your melody (you basically play a tune on a keyboard, even just a few notes) and use that hint to compose a structured musical piece. The result is a brand …

There are platforms and then there are platforms In the opening post of this series I considered the “big nine” mostly from the point of view of their capability to offer storage, processing and access (this latter mediated by Internet). These nine platforms are quite different from one another, as …

One of the topic addressed in the Digital Transformation Course developed by EIT Digital and IEEE Future Direction in its Digital Reality Initiative is that of Platforms. In these last few weeks I have been discussing platforms with a number of key people in several industries and now I take …