The Large Hadron Collider, a 27 km ring under ground across Switzerland and France (near Geneva), has been quiet for the last three years as maintenance and upgrade took place. It went back on service on April 22nd and just after 3 days it broke the record of energy reaching …
Read More »Macro changes ahead – IV
4. Healthcare The whole Healthcare system is on a journey of change learning to leverage on data. The Digital Transformation, DX, of healthcare started slow, in spite of the huge amount of data available, because of the sensitivity of the area where the wellbeing of a single individual may become …
Read More »Do you speak Whale?
We have come to take Google Translator as a given, it now (June 2021) supports 109 languages translating EVERY DAY 100 billion words! Yet, among all those languages (and I should confess last time I looked at the list there were a handful I dod not know of their existence) …
Read More »Post-Pandemic Scenarios – XXXV – ReInventing the Car 4
What volume of data are we talking about? The estimate at 2030 is between 1 to 2 TB of data per car per day! Today’s connected car have over hundred sensors and the estimate is a production of 25GB per hour. A mind boggling figure. At least four questions arise …
Read More »Post-Pandemic Scenarios – XXXIV – ReInventing the Car 3
I mentioned in the previous post in this series how the car will transform to become a pod that flows on a transportation infrastructure. Seen from the “outside” a car will become a data generator and in turns these data will feed a growing ecosystem that will contribute to change …
Read More »Post-Pandemic Scenarios – XVII – Healthcare DX
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 …
Read More »Latest data on … data
Googling on “how much Data” you get a list of over 4 billion pointers, and that is starting to give an idea of the “data landscape”. Interestingly, the first pointers proposed by the search engine refer to “how much data do I need to store”, a question related to the …
Read More »What about BrontoBytes?
Back in 2015 (a age ago) an article by the World Economic Forum listed the measuring stick for data quantity. So they started with kB (1,000 bytes) and moved up to reach the ExaBytes – a billion of GB-, the ZettaBytes – 1,000 of EB- and then the YottaBytes – …
Read More »The economics of the Digital Transformation – XII
In terms of economic value tied to data and knowledge a perfect storm is on the horizon created by the convergence of: explosion of data availability, both in the general context and in the private one. The former relates to academia and open research, news, social media, product/service information (data …
Read More »The economics of the Digital Transformation – V
Once Leveraging on Data The Digital Transformation accelerates the generation of data and companies are learning to capitalise on those data, sometimes clashing with fuzzy regulation and unclear definition of ownership. Take the example of Tesla. Tesla have been designed through computer modelling and this process generates a digital model …
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