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Google glass were met with curiosity but eventually raised strong opposition for their potential intrusiveness, a omnipresent Peeping Tom, to the point they were banned from several places. Oculus Rift are cumbersome and surely not suitable for moving around. True augmented reality glasses, affordable and seamless for a mass market …

The disparity in the world healthcare among Countries is huge, as shown in the World Bank data, and, unfortunately, it is no April fools. Bet869ween the Gambia 20$ and the US 9869$ per person per year there is a factor of 493! Now, one might observe that the value of …

What has been described is a technology possibility based on the concept of PDT, that in the near future, within this decade, can help in detecting and containing an epidemic, well before it turns into a pandemic. The various players have been considered and their possible roles/responsibilities identified.  Most importantly, …

The evolution of Digital Twins is towards the acquisition of an autonomous role, i.e. a digital twin may start to act as an autonomous entity performing task on behalf of its physical twin. Although this is a natural evolution as digital twins shift from a static copy to a dynamic …

So far I claimed that PDT could help in the negotiation of boundary between the personal sphere and the societal sphere creating an intermediate space where the overlapping of the two can be on the one hand regulated by an authority (under the advice of a healthcare institution) and on …

A crucial aspect in epidemic control is the capability to involve a whole community and obtain compliance to the set of rules defined by the Healthcare Institutions and imposed by the Government through a regulatory framework. The best way to achieve compliance is through awareness, If people understand what is …

Democracy 2.0 Wiston Churchill once said: The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter underlining that the average voter does not have the knowledge and political skill needed to cast an appropriate, aware vote (this goes hand in hand with Bertrand Russel aphorism: Democracy- …

3. Increased knowledge/intelligence Although the evolution through enhanced energy, materials and tools is happening, the most important and possibly radical evolution in this century is rooted in the exponential growth of knowledge and ability to tap onto this knowledge. This is different from genome evolution but it is closely tied …

Artificial General Intelligence  Artificial General Intelligence -AGI-, as the name suggest, is the capability of a machine (computer, software, robots) to display the same latitude of intelligence and the same depth (level of complexity) that an average human can display. Today we have several entities with embedded artificial intelligence that …

Automation of Everything Automation has been a sort of mantra in the last fifty years, robots and assembly lines in manufacturing, routing in telecommunication networks, automation of medical exams analyses, more recently automation in coding of software … There is hardly an area that has not been affected by automation …