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5. Seul – powering virtual Seul Back in 2021 the City Government of Seul, South Korea, committed 3 million US$ to create a digital twin of Seul, as the first step to create the city Metaverse. In June 2022 the first CityVerse was open to the public (watch the clip). …

7. 5G/6G A metaverse would  be of  no  use, and to all purposes  it will be non-existent, if you cannot access it. Communication  to, from and within the metaverse(s) is crucial. We accessed SecondLife using landline connectivity and, partly, 3G wireless system. Nowadays the access has to be wireless to …

As it is often the case, a news can be seen as a good one or a bad one, depending  on the point of view. The graphic shows the decrease/increase in average download speed in the last year -December 2021 vs December 2022- in various Countries around the  world. At …

Let’s take a look now at four technologies having a strong success probability. As such these will likely be pursued by business and in turns their uptake by the market may accelerate both evolution and deployment. Augmented Reality: it is difficult to refer to Augmented Reality as an emerging technology. …

5G is being deployed (almost) everywhere. It has not reached the penetration the (over)optimistic foresaw but its deployment is in line with all realistic expectation, in step to really flank 4G by 2025 and overcoming it by decade end, The big issue with 5G is that it is not generating …

The Metaverse is a (fuzzy) word embracing many business aspects, areas that can benefit from an uptake of the Metaverse and that, conversely, can foster its adoption as represented in the graphic: The Infrastructure and its basic components are an essential part of the Metaverse. The communication fabric, 5G and …

As I pointed out in previous posts this year the Metaverse is still shrouded in hype. The crucial issue is an economic one: can the Metaverse generate money and specifically can it generate MORE money than what is now generated by the “classic” Internet? Before addressing this question one should …

5G is now being deployed more and more in Far East Asia, China, Western Countries. In Africa and in many developing Countries it lags behind, mostly due to the cost of 5G smartphones that in those areas are above the average customer affordability. It will probably take a few more …

In the previous post on this series I considered a few technology areas that support the “operation” of Industry 5.0 (noting that these are already applied in Industry 4.0). Let’s now move on to take a look at technologies that are likely to “foster” the transition from Industry 4.0 to …

Technology is a tool, it has always been a tool. However, there have been some technologies that have shaped evolution and actually prompted evolution. The very first technologies (stone cutting -extracting and shaping-, bronze smelting, and iron/steel production) gave the name to entire epochs. More recently we have had use …