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The evolution of Intelligence

To talk about the evolution of intelligence one should first “define” what intelligence is and based on that definition provide a ranking of intelligence. Once we have that we could start discussing intelligence evolution. Scientists and psychologists are still struggling on this so in this short piece I would take …

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Digital Transformation in Health Care – IV

Precision Health is based on the possibility to customise the treatment to the specific individual. Hence, the question is: what is this specificity? When the genome was discovered and its role progressively understood back in the second half of the last century it became clear that our human genome is …

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Digital Transformation in Health Care – III

Precision Health is the second area characterizing the evolution of health care. So far any cure, be it a medicine or a medical procedure (like a limb plaster), have been based on a statistical approach, i.e. leveraged on experience. By making a limb plaster in this way we have seen …

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Digital Immortality

In discussing Digital Health the main goal is to live better and possibly a bit longer using medical support in a more effective way, i.e. spending less. Some people are looking at life in a different way. We are who we are beyond our body constraints, one of which is …

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Digital Transformation in Health Care – II

What is the disruption that these devices will bring? Basically it is related to the de-localization of health care, moving out from the big health care institutions, like hospitals. If you look at the map of how health care is provided today (segmented by age) you’ll see that the two …

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Digital Transformation in Health Care – I

The Digital Transformation –DT- is pervasive, I cannot imagine a single area not affected by it. However, if I would have to pick up one that will be completely disrupted by the DT and whose disruptions will affect the Society as a whole, the Individual and all what’s in between …

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SAS Delphi results – Symbiotic Autonomous Systems

Area 9 – Symbiotic Autonomous Systems The symbioses of life forms and artefacts, human and machines looks like the inevitable evolution, made possible by technology advances, by economic drive and by the increase of wellbeing through augmentation. The separation between ourselves and our artifacts is getting fuzzier as artifacts achieve …

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SAS Delphi results – Digital Twins

Area 8 – Digital Twins Digital twins, the replica in bits of an entity, as minute as a switch, complex as a turbine or cluster of many digital twins like a city, are an expanding reality in many areas: manufacturing, operation, planning and are now starting in education, health care… …

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SAS Delphi results – Machine Swarms

Area 7 – Machine Swarms Artificial intelligence and advances in processing, including neuromorphic computing, are opening the door to machine awareness. Machines that understand what is going on, why it is happening and what is the purpose. The question whether a machine that is aware is also perceiving itself as …

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Learning like a child

Machine learning is making significant progress, soft agents are duplicating themselves to explore different strategies and learn in the process, researchers are finding new ways to tag reality (like movie clips) to let machine learning by capturing those tags. Children do not need any of that to learn. They experience …

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