4. Tokyo – Street Digital Twins On yesterday post I mentioned “Urban Digital Twins”, as they are called in New York by Columbia University to refer to the use of Digital Twins in a urban environment. Today we go to the other side of the planet and meet “Street Digital …
Read More »Digital Twins for Digital Cities: towards the CityVerse – III
3. New York – Urban Digital Twins It is a no brainer that the use of a digital space mirroring the physical space can decrease cost, improve efficiency and make possible a variety of new activities (and services) to the benefit of the citizienship. So far so good. However, when …
Read More »Upgrading the sense of touch to a prosthetic hand
The sense of touch is crucial to everybody, although we may neglect to perceive its importance, it is natural that we don’t give it a second though, till we have lost it. That’s what happen to people having lost a limb using a prosthetic. Prosthetics, as I had the opportunity …
Read More »Digital Twins for Digital Cities: towards the CityVerse – II
2. London’s Metaverse(s) London is the playground for several metaverse ideas, bringing together the municipality, content providers, service providers and advanced technology supplier. There is not -yet- a plan to create a London’s Metaverse but it is interesting to look at the variety of -I would call them- experiments going …
Read More »Digital Twins for Digital Cities: towards the CityVerse – I
To the best of my knowledge, Singapore was the first city to create, and operate, a digital twin mirroring the city assets and processes. It started in 2014 and involved several companies to first model what was existing (digital model), then connect the physical (part of the) city to the …
Read More »Is AI really great or just (another) bubble?
Bubbles in the financial markets are not something related to the Internet age. The first financial bubble that I am aware of happened in 1634 blowing out in 1637. It was the first time that financial tools like edging and futures. The very first “flippers” appeared, buying on paper to …
Read More »CAPTCHA? Gotcha!
CAPTCHA: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. The bold part is what matter in this post. Over the years I got progressively more and more annoyed by CAPTCHA, more and more as they became more and more complicated. Add to this the fact that my …
Read More »Digital after-life
In a few of my posts I touched upon the potential of technology to preserve our memories and make them available to others even after we died. Just few days ago, I stepped onto a Technology Review article (I would suggest you to read it) on this very topic. A …
Read More »What the heck does it mean?
Ever looked at the result of some medical exams and wondered what does that mean? I am not talking about the chicken scratch of some doctors (many, most …) but to the nicely printed result you get from a medical lab. Those long list of unknown words, and even more …
Read More »Generative AI means biz
Just a year ago Generative AI was not used by industry, it was not even on the radar of industry. The ChatGPT wave has changed all that and now it is much more than the talk of the town. Industry has noticed and has started to apply it (or similar …
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