I received this articulated comment from Derrick de Kerckhove that I find thought provoking and I am pleased to share it here, along the sequel on Personal Digital Twins in the epidemic context. Regarding both the viral threat of Covid-19 and the haphazard regulatory reactions of the world’s governments, the …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Personal Digital Twins role in Epidemics control – VI
I pointed out in my previous post the fuzzy separation between the personal and the societal spheres, where personal privacy meets society’s “need to know” and the fact that a Personal Digital Twin, PDT, might serve as the gateway to the flow of information. The “fuzzyness” relates to the different …
Read More »Decentralised Epidemic Alert Systems leveraging on Digital Twins
I have received this post from Juuso who is working on Digital Twins as Doctoral Candidate at Aalto University and I am very pleased to share it on the FDC blog. It presents several interesting ideas worth of discussion and hopefully of implementation. By Juuso Autiosalo Roberto Saracco has documented …
Read More »Personal Digital Twins role in Epidemics control – V
As I am writing this post there is an ongoing discussion on Italian newspapers on the extent to which it is reasonable to protect privacy rather than monitoring people movement to identify risk of contagion. Whilst just last week there was, at least on newspapers and on their reporting of …
Read More »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) …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Personal Digital Twins role in Epidemics control – III
As the epidemics in Italy keeps growing to an alarming rate (and so it does in several other Countries) measures have been taken to limit the mobility of people, thus decreasing the chance of contact and spread. Yet, it seems that a few Italians keep moving around. How many? Well, …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Personal Digital Twins role in Epidemics control – II
Although a full fledged epidemic control based on “personal Digital Twins” is still several years away, we can see that the approach of the South Korean government is along these lines. The Korean Center for Disease Control, KCDC, has organised an impressive collection of data from smartphones location (tracked by …
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