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.

Monitoring your health “sound”

I bet you had several times your general physician auscultating your body. Using the stethoscope she listen to the variety of sounds generated by your breathing, by the hearth, by the blood circulation and all the others “stuff” we have in our body. Now scientists at NorthWestern University have created …

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AI big fears …

I am writing this post on the wave of emotion raised by a talk on AI in the (small) city of Voghera, Italy. The event was organized by “Voghera é” a local cultural association and was attended by people that, with very few exceptions, had a view on AI as …

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It takes a lot of brain to deal with AI

In these last three years I had the pleasure of coordinating the Anitec Assinform AI Working Group. Besides the interaction with several players on the offer side (creating AI based tools, services, products) I got the opportunity of talking to companies from the demand side, the ones that are interested …

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ChatGPT on steroids

The same people that asked for a moratorium on the development of Generative AI for 6 months (March 22nd, 2023) rushed to further develop it and bring more powerful products to the market. At the same time Governments and Regulators in many parts of the world have been busy to …

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The Future of Books

I already addressed aspects related to the consolidation and diffusion of information in other posts, like here, here, here and here. I was recently asked to answer a set of questions by a publisher on the future of books. Here are the questions and my answers. I welcome your thoughts. …

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Decoding the brain …

If you are interesting in an overview on what is going on in the area of brain computer interfaces and the issues this evolving technology is raising take a look at this article on Nature. I already wrote quite a bit in this area and you can take a look …

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Create your own Personal Digital Twin

We have seen proto-personal assistants since the turn of the century (do you remember Clippy? It came out with Windows 97 …) and they got better and better (think about Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, MS Copilot, …) but none of this is actually a personal assistant that knows about you …

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