I remember, it was long time ago, studying math and physics. Whilst I had no problem in understanding dimensional spaces over the usual 3, as just equations with more than 3 variables, I had problems in physics going beyond the 4th dimension, something you need to do when considering several …
Read More »Outliving our body
Aaron Elster was a Holocaust surviver. He had a concern, expressed in several interviews, that once he and all the other who lived the Holocaust would have gone, the memory of that tragedy would fade away. Yes, it was engraved in books but one thing is to read about it …
Read More »Viruses and Bits
It’s Easter but we are not talking about eggs, rather about the epidemic. The virus did not take a vacation time and waiting for a vaccine that is still down the road is unsatisfactory. So many people are turning to technology and to bits in particular. There is an unlimited …
Read More »Spreading the Wings
If you Google for Supermarket queues you’ll get plenty of articles and images/video on the lengthy snakes of people in line. No surprise that online shopping has seen a tremendous increase courtesy of the lock-down. However, this is not true in all merchandising sector. Whilst (Italy data for March 2020) …
Read More »Light field Technology – the future of photography?
I got intrigued on light field photography some 10 years ago. The concept is quite old, going back to the 1930ies, although the first camera exploiting this idea was a prototype back in 1992. The first commercial camera, that I am aware of goes back to 2011 (see clip) when …
Read More »For safety reasons Zoox lays off all its safety drivers…
Sort of ironic that a safety worker is being laid off because of safety reasons. Isn’t it? Yet, this is what is happening in California where Zoox, a taxi service using self driving cars has laid off some 120 safety drivers required by California law to provide the service. Because …
Read More »Seeing through AI
Being locked down at home, courtesy of the epidemic, I spent a few hours trying out a number of apps I downloaded on my smartphone that claim to be able to recognise objects in the surrounding using the smartphone camera and some sort of AI. Overall I had fun, but …
Read More »Personal Digital Twins role in Epidemics control – XI
I got several reactions to the posts on the PDT and epidemics and several questions on the effectiveness of actually applying PDTs in this area. With this post I try to clarify some of the points I made in a more systematic way. In mathematical terms, an infection is characterised …
Read More »Living apart together
LAT has been a growing trend over the past few years. LAT stands for Living Apart Together and refers to couple in a stable relation that for any of a number of reasons choose to not live in the same house (some are stretching the LAT also to couple using …
Read More »Xenobots, Living Machines
As technology progresses our established categories lose their well defined borders. We are seeing this happening in many areas, and in many cases this brings new ethical questions to the fore, Think about the fading boundary between life and death: a person physical processes can be kept operating thanks to …
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