Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to all, to those who celebrate it and to those who don’t! 
In the English speaking Countries the Easter Egg is sometime substituted, or flanked, by the Easter Bunny (and Easter has its English roots in the goddess Eostra, goddess of fertility and Spring).
I am presently in Hong Kong, plenty of Easter Eggs all around, even though Easter is not rooted in Asia. 
It is a Christian festivity that has been rapidly adopted all over the world and now it smells of business: in the US alone there is an estimated cost per family of 131$, that is 14.7 B$!
It shouldn’t come as a surprise (that’s what you get inside the egg…) to see that on the iTunes Store there are many Apps tied to Easter; I counted 500 of them for the iPhone and iPad, and 250 Apps on the Android store!
That’s amazing. However, this Easter I will stay on the beaten track and nibble at a chocolate egg, and I wish you can do the same!

About Roberto Saracco

Roberto Saracco fell in love with technology and its implications long time ago. His background is in math and computer science. Until April 2017 he led the EIT Digital Italian Node and then was head of the Industrial Doctoral School of EIT Digital up to September 2018. Previously, up to December 2011 he was the Director of the Telecom Italia Future Centre in Venice, looking at the interplay of technology evolution, economics and society. At the turn of the century he led a World Bank-Infodev project to stimulate entrepreneurship in Latin America. He is a senior member of IEEE where he leads the New Initiative Committee and co-chairs the Digital Reality Initiative. He is a member of the IEEE in 2050 Ad Hoc Committee. He teaches a Master course on Technology Forecasting and Market impact at the University of Trento. He has published over 100 papers in journals and magazines and 14 books.