Take Facial Recognition and mix it with Affective Computing, sprinkle with a bit of Artificial Intelligence add plenty of sensors and what you get is the new paradigm of computer to human interaction, a paradigm that is already starting to reshape many areas and generate a few concerns although it …
Read More »Digital Transformation: Impact on Jobs – II
In the last century automation has resulted in a loss of jobs because machines could replace human workers. On the contrary, in most cases the Digital Transformation results in a loss of jobs because those jobs are no longer needed. There is not a machine (robot or software) that is …
Read More »Digital Tranformation: Impact on Jobs – I
The Digital Transformation, DX, is having a profound impact on jobs by: Replacing human workers with automation Removing the need for some type of jobs Changing the way jobs are performed, usually requiring different set of skills Creating new job opportunities in new emerging sectors Increasing the demand for DX …
Read More »Would you like a Vish for dinner?
I am seeing more and more news on 3D printing food. A recent report from ResearchAndMarkets forecasts a growth from 485 million $ expected in 2020 to 1 billion in 2025. So far most of the talks have been hopes enveloped in marketing, aimed mostly at Venture Capital. There are …
Read More »The economics of the Digital Transformation – XXVI
The Pandemic Impact on the Gig Economy The recent pandemic hit the Gig Economy and possibly changed its evolution in two main ways: Emphasised the critical work environment with low societal protection Boosted the Gig Economy with, possibly, lasting effects Critical Work Environment The insecurity of work intrinsic in the …
Read More »The economics of the Digital Transformation – XXV
Decoupling of CDT knowledge from the physical person The decoupling of a CDT from its physical twin can be leveraged in two opposite ways, as a proxy. and as an augmentation of the physical twin (it makes most sense when applied to a person) Both generate economic value and biz …
Read More »Sustainability biggest challenge: us
For most part of human life on the planet, humans have been an insignificant species, barely noticeable to anybody from another world visiting Earth nor from other species coexisting with them. From the point of view of humans, however, this species was the most important one, particularly so once they …
Read More »The economics of the Digital Transformation – XXIV
Multiplication of use of knowledge through instantiation A CDT is a software entity (data and, possibly, processing capability at stage III and IV) and as such it can be instantiated, i.e. copies can be created and activated at the same time. However, the nature of a CDT (as well, although …
Read More »The economics of the Digital Transformation – XXIII
Exploitation of knowledge in the cyberspace A CDT at stage IV becomes a knowledge entity that can be sold as a whole or by granting access to a subset of its knowledge space, through APIs. A CDT can advertise itself, its “executable” knowledge in various ways and there will likely …
Read More »Pervasive AI in Industry 4.0
I recently re-read the interview given by Henrik von Scheel (considered to be the inventor of the concept of Industry 4.0) back in 2018, one and half year ago and stopped reflecting on its validity now. The name of Industry 4.0 was actually a marketing label for a report prepared …
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