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Augmented Reality is great, no doubt about it. It let us merge the digital with the physical space. The problem today is that we are missing “tools” that can make this bridge seamless. Sure, I can use my smartphone (and I use it from time to time) to get a …

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 …

– 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 …

I received this articulated comment from Derrick de Kerckhove that I find thought provoking and I am pleased to share it here, along the sequel on Personal Digital Twins in the epidemic context. Regarding both the viral threat of Covid-19 and the haphazard regulatory reactions of the world’s governments, the …

As I am writing this post there is an ongoing discussion on Italian newspapers on the extent to which it is reasonable to protect privacy rather than monitoring people movement to identify risk of contagion. Whilst just last week there was, at least on newspapers and on their reporting of …

Radical Life Extension The Human life span has increased considerably if one looks back in time. Just 200 years ago life expectation was at least 20 years shorter than today. However, if one looks at the maximum age recorded (it gets more and more difficult to have an accurate reporting …

The first three goals are clearly directed to improve “my knowledge”, the first one being more generally applicable to any learning, including school learning, while the second and the third more specifically tailored to the need of a professional (the second is clearly oriented to provide knowledge “pills” functional to …

Time to do a bit of recapping. I started by noticing that Digital Reality, made possible by technology evolution and its adoption, is creating a new world in the cyberspace, something that was clearly “artificial”. In a little while two forces have started to blur this separation: The easiness of …

Digital Twins are spreading with more and more companies adopting them in a growing number of market sectors. Design and Manufacturing today are leading the way (watch the clip by T-Systems International). As this happens we are seeing Digital Twins becoming a bridge that connects the physical and the virtual …

Area 9 – Symbiotic Autonomous Systems The symbioses of life forms and artefacts, human and machines looks like the inevitable evolution, made possible by technology advances, by economic drive and by the increase of wellbeing through augmentation. The separation between ourselves and our artifacts is getting fuzzier as artifacts achieve …