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John Lennon is singing again

I grew up with the Beatles music and regretted a lot when the band dissolved. Later I was shocked in reading of John assassination in New York. Their music is still with us, a pity that there are no longer together to compose new songs. Wait. It seems that Paul …

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Exploring ideas to foster the Metaverse – VIII

4. Blockchain/NFT As pointed out in a previous post in this series, one of the characteristics of a metaverse is the decentralisation and another is to be a platform sustaining economic transactions. For both of these, distributed ledger technologies are  an important tool. Blockchain and Non Funginble Tokens -NFT- are …

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Exploring ideas to foster the Metaverse – IV

Present metaverse(s) In the IEEE FDC Metaverse initiative we distinguish between the experience metaverses and the industrial metaverses. The former are created to provide a digital world where participants can interact to get an experience, like gaming, social gatherings, sharing the experience of arts (music, theatre, ..), sharing an experience …

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Wrapping up the year – Tech and Biz

In a McKinsey  Global  Survey involving many CTOs and CEOs of companies ’round the world, that took place in July/August 2022, from several industry sectors the response on what will be the most needed technology in the coming years the overwhelming consent is on artificial intelligence. Doesn’t matter the industry …

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From Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0 – V

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 …

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Fighting … cheese crime

How did you like your Ceasar salad? It was advertised as having shaved Parmesan leaves, but was it really “Parmesan” cheese? The true Parmesan is only the one produced in a small area in Italy, Reggiano (Parma and Reggio Emilia provinces). The amount of Parmesan cheese around is almost double …

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Proof of Stake: a game changer?

I guess many people have heard the words “blockchain” and  “cryptocurrency”, the former a technology (and an architecture) to ensure reliable storage of data in distributed data bases ensuring that any tampering with data is detected, the latter an application of blockchain to currency exchange that protects the privacy of …

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DX and Macrotrends 2030

Innovation Operative is a consulting company focussing on the actual execution of “innovation”. They sit with their customers to explore, together, the challenges and opportunities a digital transformation and prepare and execution plan fitting the specific domain and the needs, aims, of an enterprise. Part of their way of working …

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