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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Exploring ideas to foster the Metaverse – III
Metaverse(s) characteristics If the ones discussed in the previous post had some characteristics of a metaverse, to the point of being proto-metaverses, in the last two – three years we have seen the rise of spaces (and applications) that are much more in line with with the present idea of …
Read More »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 …
Read More »European Lotteries – Moving to the Metaverse?
This week I had the pleasure of moderating the 2022 European Lotteries annual event , held in Milan co-organised by Sisal. and IGT Let me say upfront that betting and lotteries are not my cup of tea. I told so to the organisers when they asked me to moderate the …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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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