The World Economic Forum has addressed several times in the last few years the area of biotech and has recently published an infographic highlighting the variety of impacts in several areas. Indeed the convergence of processing power, big data, artificial intelligence makes possible to open new doors into the “carbon” …
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Telephoto in a photographer lingo is about using a special lens to get closer to a subject still keeping your distance, It can be an artist on the stage or a lion in the savannah. In the first case you may not be able to get close to the artist, …
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Just saw the news that Shutterstock, a company selling photos, just bought for 75million $ TurboSquid a company having 3D digital models of objects. Shutterstock was founded back in 2003 by a photographer as a way to sell photos on the web. Since then it has grown a portfolio of …
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A significant number of people have been delaying periodical medical check up for fear of Covid (going to a hospital in these times is not the best strategy … at least this is the perception of many people) and this is resulting in aggravating conditions in chronic patients and in …
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I have been asked to contribute to a book on Digital Twins, and specifically to provide a Chapter on the Future of Digital Twins. I have started to put together a few ideas and I would like to get feedback, as well as more ideas, on what the evolution of …
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Ai has been associated to massive number/data crunching and big data, the bigger the better. The (near) future may see this sort of “top-down” AI flanked by a different sort of AI emerging in a bottom up way, different both in terms of quality and in terms of processes (i.e. …
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Discussing the set of Megatrends with a number of people, both from academia and industry, it became clear that these are not independent trends, they are influencing one another. This of course is not a surprise, whenever one is trying to peer into the future several factors have t obe …
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This has been a long series of posts, the longest I wrote. The aim in presenting these Megatrends was to stimulate discussion and quite a bit occurred, I received several comments out of some 30,000 views. Wow! That’s why I decided to revise all posts and create an ebook (you can …
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Working in a smart environment It is well known that human societies progress through a continuous interaction among minds (people) and resources. Increasing one or the other, or both, without an effective interaction leads nowhere. Hence humans are more than used to exploit distributed intelligence, the one present in other …
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Working with smart machines From what I have discussed it is obvious that in this decade work will be intertwined more and more with intelligent machines (Machines used to include both hard -robot like- and soft -applications). As pointed out in previous posts, artificial intelligence extends the applicability of automation …
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IEEE Future Directions
