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Revitalising Global Cooperation We live in a competitive world. The increased effectiveness of communications and logistic infrastructures, the former transporting thoughts, knowledge and ideas the latter goods, components and products has made the world even more competitive than in the past creating a single huge marketplace steering demand and a …

Harnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution We are already in the path of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the one characterised by a merging of the physical, digital and -at least for some- biological world. Personally I tend to limit the characterisation to the merging of physical and digital leaving the merging …

Human machine convergence One of the result of the Symbiotic Autonomous Systems Initiative by FDC-IEEE was the recognition that technology evolution is affecting both machines (machine is used in a broad sense, to include robots, software bots, prosthetics, hacked DNA in living being like bacteria, new life forms …) and humans …

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 …

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 …

Next generation education As just mentioned the “education” of citizens, through increased awareness of  the present situation the goals the impact of actions that are/can be taken by the individual, is a fundamental aspect of improving a smart city. However, the need for increasing awareness is a much more general need …

In the previous post I pointed out that Digital Reality is becoming Reality not just for products but also for Systems, including complex systems like telecommunications networks. Here I point out that Digital Reality is becoming “Reality” also for processes. This is of particular interest, and significance, for the manufacturing …

Platforms as enabler of business (and services) III OK, so after having discussed the evolution of API let’s go back to the use of platforms as enabler of the shift from products to services (and ecosystems). The evolution of products is first towards flanking them with add-on services (see graphic …

7. Knowledge platforms I closed the last post touching on “knowledge” and pointing out that our smartphones, our digital twins, might become knowledge intermediators in our access to the knowledge on the web. This ties in nicely with the last category of platforms I would like to discuss: knowledge platforms. …

The new Gartner Hype Cycle for 2019 emerging technologies is out and the position of 5G caught my eye. It is right at the top of the curve, meaning it has reached the top of the hype (it is mentioned in 726 million pages according to Google, not as many …