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An amazing infrastructure

We are going through something that just 3 months ago was unthinkable and I am amazed how, overall and through the endeavour of millions people around the world, we are copying with it. We are lucky to have a worldwide communications infrastructure, Internet (but it is actually a mesh of …

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It is time to reinvent the wheel

We have already moved quite a long way from Henry Ford’s famous statement: “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.” He didn’t actually wanted to limit customer’s choice, he wanted to produce a car that could be affordable for (mostly) …

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Personal Digital Twins role in Epidemics control – IV

2. There is a growth of Medical Cyber-Physical Systems (MCPS), basically resulting from the interconnection of several devices and systems in the medical landscape. As these devices and systems become smarter, able to acquire, process and make sense of data (through artificial intelligence) they are playing a bigger role in …

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Not just CO2, the virus is also curbing NO2!

Just few days ago I reported on the decrease of CO2 emission in China as result of the slow down of manufacturing following the measures taken to contain the spread of the Covid-19. Now I stumbled onto images of the amazing decrease of NO2, Nitrogen Dioxide, over China. These images …

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