The future of Digital Twins remains to be written, although what is going on now and what is going to happen in the coming 2-3 years is pretty straightforward. DTs are a reality in manufacturing and their use will further expand to cover more equipment and processes. The association of …
Read More »Evolution of Digital Twins in Manufacturing
Next week on May 10th, I will be giving a webinar on the topic of Digital Twins evolution and their role in Manufacturing. The webinar is part of a series, Tuesdays from Future, organised by EIT Manufacturing. If you are interested you can join the webinar here. By registering to …
Read More »Cognitive Digital Twins: Ethical and Societal Impacts
In September 2021 I had the opportunity of giving a webinar with Patrick Henz and Derrick de Kerckhove discussing the emerging technology of Cognitive Digital Twins -CDT. CDTs are sort of Digital Twin, embedding knowledge snd able to “execute” that knowledge. The word “execute” is the crucial one, setting CDTs …
Read More »Digital Transformation of … Digital? – IV
The next years will see a growing impact of distributed knowledge, where “distributed” refers both to knowledge owned/embedded in humans, in organizations and in machines. In a way this is nothing new, what is new is the seamless access, actually co-presence of this distributed knowledge to the point where it …
Read More »We are getting smarter!
Few days ago I stumble onto the Flynn effect, the significant -average- growth of the IQ of world population, as shown in the graphic. Basically, it was noticed that in the last century, that is as far as we have data to compare, the intelligence level of the population worldwide …
Read More »Macro changes ahead – V
Executable Knowledge Yesterday I had the pleasure of giving a keynote at the EIT Manufacturing 2021 Summit Event and I focussed on the trend towards executable knowledge in machines and its impact on the work and factory. Here’s the text of my talk. ======== Smarter Factories, Smarter People Over the …
Read More »Education and Training Metaverse
These last two years have seen millions of students, and million of professionals, taking courses on the web. Remote education has become a way of life for many creating issues to both students and teachers. The basic, and most common, approach has been to create a communication link through the …
Read More »Have we reached the limit of our brains? – II
There is no doubt, today, that the amount of data available overcomes the capability of our brain. Actually, the data we could potentially harvest exceed, by far, our capability to acquire them using our senses. It is impossible for me, and for you, just to read the articles that are …
Read More »Cognitive Digital Twins: bridging minds and machine – XII: use of my CDT by third parties
The evolution of Watson. It is an intelligent “machine” able to put its knowledge to use in several fields. The image shows the evolution of Watson’s application capabilities. Watson is now providing knowledge services in several areas, including healthcare. Image credit: IBM We come now to the second point: what …
Read More »Cognitive Digital Twins: bridging minds and machine – X: CDT and Me
Cognitive Digital Twins open up a whole new world. In these last 300 years we have developed amazing machines (our ancestors invented levers, the inclined plane, cogs, wheels, pullers and mills but the age of machines, as we understand them today, started with the industrial revolution as we learnt to …
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