As should be clear from the previous discussion Digital Twins are a powerful and flexible way to represent salient characteristics of a physical entity and they have been evolving fast extending their reach to represents an ever larger variety of physical entities. One might wonder if they would also be …
Read More »Can you trust a deepfake presidential candidate?
Saying the politicians are at the topo of trust is a long shot. Of course, they all strive to cast an image that can stimulate trust in voters and their speeches, when not focussing on bashing their opponents. Now the question is what kind of trust can a deepfake generate? …
Read More »Post-Pandemic Scenarios – XI – Digital Fashion
Digital Fashion The FTI’s report presents an interesting scenario on the evolution of fashion: the emergence of digital fashion, flanking the usual one. That this scenario is rot a figment of the imagination can be seen considering that a number of companies, including the big brands, have started to invest …
Read More »Making Zoom and the likes a thing of the past …
Microsoft has announced its Mesh platform and t their Ignite event. You can get all details, and there are plenty, in their Innovation Stories and take a look at the clip to see how it may look like. I am saying “it may look like” because the way it can …
Read More »Do you need a copilot? Linda is ready
In the last few weeks I have flown a Cessna 172. I started from Italy for a round the world tour, so far I have reached Iran and I have enjoyed amazing landscapes from the green hills of Lebanon, the many islands in Greece to the deserts of Saudi Arabia. …
Read More »Outliving our body
Aaron Elster was a Holocaust surviver. He had a concern, expressed in several interviews, that once he and all the other who lived the Holocaust would have gone, the memory of that tragedy would fade away. Yes, it was engraved in books but one thing is to read about it …
Read More »Personal Digital Twins role in Epidemics control – IX
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 …
Read More »Virtual Holoportation
Over 15 years ago I was fortunate of working at the Future Centre with a team of young people from all over the world attracted to Venice and to the opportunity of envisaging the (a possible) future. One of the future scenarios that was created was about a grandfather and …
Read More »Holoportation is -almost-here!
I read a few articles on Portl, watched a few video clips (there is one at the end of this post) and I should say I am impressed. It seems too good to be true, and as the say goes may be it is not. I sent request for contact …
Read More »What if …Reality+Digital Reality becomes … Reality – VII
OK, let me start by saying that I have been uncertain on writing this post as part of the Digital Reality series. Eventually, I decided to publish it for three reasons: VR in porn is a rapidly growing “reality” VR in porn is facing technological challenges that are so far …
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