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It is now over 25 centuries that philosophers have been discussing about the meaning of reality, someone stating that there is not such a thing as reality, since what is now was not what it was a moment ago and it will no longer be a blink of an eye …

Over the centuries humankind has managed to increase the global knowledge and found ways to pass this growing knowledge from a generation to the next one. Knowledge, for most part of human history, was generated locally by very few people and used locally. It took centuries for knowledge to move …

When you were a small child attending school, and as you grew attending college, your teachers knew what you … knew as well as what you needed to learn to further your knowledge. It was no magic, of course. By seeing you all day long, listening to your questions, looking …

Following on the previous posts on 2019 top tech trends let’s look at the 3 technologies that are expected to continue having a growing impact in 2019 but whose massive uptake is expected in the next decade: Digital Twins -These are software representations of assets and processes to understand, predict, and …

Following on yesterday’s post on 2019 top tech trends let’s look at the remaining 5 technologies that are expected to have broad dissemination and high impact in 2019: Active security protection – the person that invented the ship also invented the shipwreck and the castaway. This is a truth that applies …

The outline of 2019 top tech trends by Computer Society is out and this is the list of technologies that are expected to have broad dissemination and high impact in 2019: Deep Learning Accelerators – deep learning has reached maturity in terms of adoption, although we can expect much more …

I was part in the last two days of the IEEE presence at ArticNet, the major annual event looking at different facets of life and environment in artic regions (of Canada, although the issues are common to all artic regions). The artic region of Canada is a vast spread of …

There is no question that the Digital Transformation will kill several jobs as well as create new ones. What is different from the previous waves of transformation that hit humanity in the past is the change in knowledge/skills that will be required. This change is likely to be continuous and …

Keeping on the reporting from TTM 2018. Neuroscience and Brain The evolution of Brain Machine Interfaces is expected to progress at an accelerated pace in the coming decade, thanks to a multitude of research endeavor in many parts of the world. Work is progressing both in the area of non-invasive …

Just three days ago I shared some thoughts on how our “smartness” depends on our social environment, on the support we are receiving from a multitude of other humans, most of which we don’t even know of their existence. All this support is freeing us from the need to know …