Military pilots can have an augmented reality helmet -for just 400,000$- that let them keep focused on the task at hand and yet be aware of any needed data since they are presented in their field of view. Car drivers are not that fortunate (or may be they are luckier …
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Autonomous Vehicles Technology to support autonomous vehicles is already available. Think about military drones -UAV, Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles-, automated subway trains… You can also think about early versions of autonomous cars, like Waymo. Technology might not be totally affordable, it might require further enhancement but it is here. The reasons …
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Automation of Everything Automation has been a sort of mantra in the last fifty years, robots and assembly lines in manufacturing, routing in telecommunication networks, automation of medical exams analyses, more recently automation in coding of software … There is hardly an area that has not been affected by automation …
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Over 15 years ago I was fortunate of working at the Future Centre with a team of young people from all over the world attracted to Venice and to the opportunity of envisaging the (a possible) future. One of the future scenarios that was created was about a grandfather and …
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Sharing Economy The Digital Transformation creates an infrastructure based on bits. This infrastructures and the characteristics of bits, easy of replication, transport, access, manipulation makes it an ideal infrastructure to share resources. If you look for a moment at telecommunications you can see how the progressive dematerialisation of resources has …
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Connected Healthcare The healthcare sector has been digitised (introduction of computers in equipment for analyses, monitoring, diagnoses, medication, genome sequencing …) and digitalised to a certain extent (exchange of data in various processes although privacy and standardisation issues are still limiting the exchange of several data, including the Electronic Healthcare …
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I read a few articles on Portl, watched a few video clips (there is one at the end of this post) and I should say I am impressed. It seems too good to be true, and as the say goes may be it is not. I sent request for contact …
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Next generation education As just mentioned the “education” of citizens, through increased awareness of the present situation the goals the impact of actions that are/can be taken by the individual, is a fundamental aspect of improving a smart city. However, the need for increasing awareness is a much more general need …
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Smart cities Cities are basically existing and organised through and around infrastructures. The more efficient these infrastructures the better off is the city, the business and the citizens quality of life. The digital transformation changes the way infrastructures operate and can be monitored but, most importantly the digital transformation create …
Read More »Printing skin on a wound
In October 2018 I posted a news of a “skin-printer” created at the University of Toronto that for the first time allowed skin printing using a portable device (skin printing using 3D printers have been around for several years now, operated in laboratory environment – hospitals). Now I saw that …
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