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10.  Education AR in education should be a no brainer. Indeed, several companies have started to us AR to improve training effectiveness. As mentioned in a previous post, several companies like Boeing, are  leveraging AR for remote assistance. This is a form of training on the job and it is …

I guess I made clear in the precious post what I believe should be the answer to the question “Are social networks and screens changing our brains?”. A strong a clear yes, and I would add “there is nothing new in this”. It may be worth taking a step forward, …

Consensus is growing that the next decade will see the expansion of Digital Twins applications in many areas as well as their extension in capabilities. Let’s consider two examples related to new fields of application, one in healthcare that is in the process of applying Digital Twins to include humans …

Apart from the issues listed in the previous post and others that may arise as a cognitive digital twin picks up autonomy (a life of its own), it is obvious that a CDT may provide a significant support to, and to a certain extent change, professionals and their need of …

A cognitive Digital Twin (red circle) shares part of the human twin knowledge and extends into the cyberspace aggregating additional knowledge that is customised to fit the needs of the human twin. The CDT may act as a proxy of the human twin roaming the cyberspace to acquire knowledge. One …

Knowledge used to be exchanged by word of mouth and that made it quite complicated to have knowledge spread over great distances A Cognitive Digital Twin, as it is the case for a Digital Twin, becomes a bridge between the person and the cyberspace, in this case the “personal knowledge …

A Cognitive Digital Twin can be seen as composed by three parts: one mirroring the present knowledge, skill and experience, one shadowing the processes of learning and forgetting and the third keeping track of when and how knowledge changes What could a cognitive digital twin be? Well, if we take …

A Digital Twin used to link data models and offer a single visualization based on a specific user. Image credit: IBM The new landscape of knowledge, characterised by:  – continuously expanding data and metadata, partly fuelled by humans and partly by machines, working asynchronously and only loosely connected among them,  …

Data, information and services on the web keep growing exponentially and they are more and more accessed through mobile devices. This is a representation of what happens in terms of mobile access in a minute based on 2018 statistics. Image credit: Mobclix OK, so far I mentioned: the growing wealth …

So, it is factual that knowledge is expanding faster than ever. Part of this knowledge is not immediately applicable to business, it is theoretical and is most of interest to researchers. However, a portion of this knowledge growth is deriving from experiences scattered around the world, other knowledge has found …