Data are created by sensors and aggregated by the company (institution) that has an interest in those data (and probably owns/deployed the sensors). Data creation, as noted, is a fall out of the Digital Transformation, companies digitise their environment and create data that are used by them and can be …
Read More »Leveraging Patterns – VII
As noticed in previous posts sensors embedded in the ambient, in our homes, in appliances, in power meters and of course in wearable (I would say that our smartphone has become a wearable, we never leave home without it…) harvest data that can be used to identify patterns of the …
Read More »The economics of the Digital Transformation – XXIV
Multiplication of use of knowledge through instantiation A CDT is a software entity (data and, possibly, processing capability at stage III and IV) and as such it can be instantiated, i.e. copies can be created and activated at the same time. However, the nature of a CDT (as well, although …
Read More »The economics of the Digital Transformation – XXII
– Delegation of functions to the CDT for interaction in the company cyberspace Once at level IV a CDT can act autonomously in a company cyberspace to make knowledge available to company’s resources. These resources can be other CDTs and employees. A CDT may interact with other company’s CDT searching …
Read More »The economics of the Digital Transformation – XXI
– Search for knowledge in the network of CDT Within a company several CDTs may form a network of knowledge. In turn this can be mirrored by a CDT (the firm CDT) or it may exist as a network. That would be the case when CDTs are mirroring knowledge of …
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– Improve cooperative working exploiting complementary knowledge CDTs can be considered as active knowledge repositories: the keypoint is “active”. They can establish relations with other CDTs and explore the cyberspace to become aware of new knowledge and how that knowledge complement / obsolete their own knowledge. Within a firm there …
Read More »So many Big Brothers… I
In his Nineteen eighty-four novel Orwell imagined a Big Brother that, using telescreens, was able to see and control people. He wrote it in 1949 and imagined that people were constantly reminded of this by the warnings appearing everywhere “Big Brother is watching you”. Today I feel we are well …
Read More »Lights and Shadows of Covid-19 on Digital Transformation – IX
Moving on with the other questions: 2. Will ‘digital twin’ thinking play a role in facilitating the Government’s office guidance and, if so, how? Several businesses are currently using sort of digital twins in profiling their customers. They trace their activity, perform data analytics on virtual communities (birds of a …
Read More »The many faces of Digital Transformation – Societal Scenarios XXI
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- …
Read More »The many faces of Digital Transformation – Societal Scenarios XIX
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 …
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