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The pandemic has accelerated the access to eCommerce and, possibly more important in terms of future evolution, it has brought more customers and more shops (owners) to the cyberspace. This is creating more competition in a market seeing a few behemoths and a growing number of small businesses. For the …

That data are going to play a major role in the future of automotive, both as tools to streamline several activities (like proactive maintenance, safety and security, traffic management and even design hints for future releases) and as a way to deliver new services (car as a service, transportation as …

It already happened to me twice, and possible to thousands of other people around the world. I got an email with a link, courtesy of Amazon, that told me to look at what happened that day in 2003 (once, the other time was 2002, I seem to remember). I duly …

Many of us have become used to talk to Alexa. There are an estimated 94 million people in the US owning a smart speaker (up from 76 million in 2020). They are growing everywhere and if you include smartphones with smart personal assistant capability the numbers are in the billions! …

If you want to see how wild our imagination could be about the future of car, just browse the web. You’ll find futuristic supercar that fall in the category of “faster, luxury, amazing, wow”, as well as cars that are designed to fit a specific function, like saving parking space …

There are already plenty of devices without a steering wheel! Think about the old Roomba, the autonomous vacuum cleaner introduced back in 2002 by iRobot. Well, it bumped on chairs and walls but that was not a big deal. Upon bumping it backtracked and changed its direction: no problem! Subsequent …

Robots have become pervasive in many sectors and their presence and capabilities are going to keep increasing in the coming years. The FTI’s report includes several areas of evolution, made possible by technology increased capabilities. In the following I provide a list (addressed in the FTI’s report) adding to each …

As mentioned in the previous post in this series, and as pointed out in the FTI’s report, the evolution trend for communications networks is shifting the focus to the edges. Hence, in this decade we can expect a growth of data processing at the edges, both in devices and in …

The retail sector has seen a growing shift towards e-commerce that has accelerated since the pandemic begun. Clearly the ecommerce is an aspect of the digital transformation of this sector and so far has seen the prevalence of few big players (see the graphic) although more and more companies have …

Digital Transformation of Healthcare Until 2019, in the pre-Covid era, Healthcare was lagging behind several other sectors in terms of Digital Transformation. The music sector as well the travel sector were well ahead, and even the manufacturing sector was considered to be much more advanced than healthcare. The pandemic did …