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The Huawei presentation at the webinar I mentioned in yesterday’s post on the future of airport, also addressed a few technology trends for 2025 that I found interesting (although I am not buying on them all, but this is what discussion on trends is for, getting different perspectives, hence I …

The increase in sensing capabilities and the pervasive diffusion of sensors are creating more and more data. In turns, AI (in all its forms, including Machine Learning) is showing that we can leverage on those data to extract meaning that is becoming more and more valuable. Hence, the trend towards …

Many of us have become used to talk to Alexa. There are an estimated 94 million people in the US owning a smart speaker (up from 76 million in 2020). They are growing everywhere and if you include smartphones with smart personal assistant capability the numbers are in the billions! …

The FTI’s report dedicates one full chapter to the expected evolution of the home, of course the trend is towards smarter homes and, interestingly, the trend is also towards the aggregation of smart homes in smarter neighbourhood (and further up into smart cities and smart Countries). The path towards smarter …

Healthcare at home At home healthcare is nothing new. As technology progresses there are more and more opportunity for continuous monitoring and remote diagnostics. I remember I started to be involved, from a Telco perspective, in telemedicine 40 years ago as we were looking for application of ISDN, an amazing …

This has been a long series of posts, the longest I wrote. The aim in presenting these Megatrends was to stimulate discussion and quite a bit occurred, I received several comments out of some 30,000 views. Wow! That’s why I decided to revise all posts and create an ebook (you can …

8. The coming age of AI-Human collaboration what iThis Megatrend is already affecting our life in many ways as well as affecting business. Think about talking to Alexa or Siri: you are actually bringing AI into your everyday life.  Pick up your phone and take a picture: AI is at …

OK, it is now time to consider a “real” wireless network! Smartphones, complex IoTs or aggregates of IoTs (like vehicles), have been addressed to as “terminals”. In fact, it is now a few years that in several occasions this name no longer apples. Think at the tethering supported by your …

We (at least the ones of you as old as me) grew up under the spell of magic given to us by fairy tails. Pumpkins morphing into carriages, elves, Aladdin lamps and of course talking mirrors. Now we start to get this magic at home. Alexa, Siri and the likes …

Shopping “Born to Shop”. I remember seeing this on a t-shirt long long time ago in Carnaby Street, London, at a time when having writings on a t-short was new and eye catching. At those times Internet was yet to come and computers were nowhere to be seen in everyday …