Tag Archives: future of education

Hua Zhibing has enrolled at the Tsinghua University in Beijing. There are several “things” that place Hua in a category of  her own. To start with she has the cognitive capability of a 6 years old, and it seems quite strange that she would be admitted to the university. However, …

For the last 20 years I have heard, and been involved to a certain extent, the complain from industry on the education delivered by college and university, particularly in technical areas. According to several voices in the industry the new engineers where not sufficiently qualified to be productive in the …

  Tele-learning gets serious What is now being called the “Zoom Education” turned years of discussion into reality in a matter of weeks, sometime days. According to the Singularity University, 1.38 billion students shifted from the classroom to the cyberspace as the daily way of “going” to school. In Italy …

After the success of Roomba, the robotic vacuum cleaner of the last decade, Paolo Pirjanian -former CTO of iRobot the manufacturer of Roomba, joined forces with Maja Matarić, USC robotics professors to create a successful social robot. The keyword here is “successful”. We have seen quite a number of social …

It is difficult to find an upside of Covid-19, but following the optimistic wisdom that sees an opportunity in any crises I am giving it a try. Looking at this from Italy, the country where I live, it is doubtless that this crises has forced a shift to the cyberspace, …

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 …