If you have ever sat in a meeting (and I bet you did) you might have wondered how much of that meeting was really worth the time you spent in it. And you might have wished for a magic wand that could squeeze useless discussion keeping just the time needed …
Read More »The gender gap is not going away anytime soon
The news on gender gap are not good. The pandemic seems to have made the gender gap worse, hitting women more than men in terms of occupation. The WEF 2021 Gender Gap Report (from which I took the graphic) is indicating that even in those areas showing some progress, this …
Read More »A web of voices and images
India still have a large number of illiterate people, 1 out of 4 adult are illiterate (2018 data) and most of these are women. The situation is improving year over year but 200 million women are still illiterate. Nevertheless, the combination of low price smartphones (under 100$) and low cost …
Read More »Work is a robot’s business
The World Economic Forum has published its 2018 Future of Jobs report, that makes for an interesting reading. The horizon is at 2022 (with some forecasting at 2025) and it contains some interesting considerations. The report is based on interviews to key people (top executives and HR heads) in several …
Read More »Robots are not the problem, the Digital Transformation is the problem! -II
So, robots and artificial intelligence are undermining our jobs. True in certain areas, even truer tomorrow and in even more areas. However the big problem is not a robot replacing me (doing what I do better, faster, with guarantee quality, at lower cost…) rather that the digital transformation makes my …
Read More »Robots are not the problem, the Digital Transformation is the problem! -I
In these last months, but the issue is not new at all, newspapers in Italy are pointing to a growing concern on job losses, as result of an increasing automation that is also becoming smarter and that is now overflowing from the factory assembly lines to percolate the whole working …
Read More »What would education be like in 2050? In-product Education
The third aspect of education involving symbiotic autonomous systems –SAS- is the trend towards an autonomous development of education content deriving from the SAS design and experience. It has become common for a broad range of products to contain an instruction manual that can provide instructions to the user. Televisions, …
Read More »What would education be like in 2050? Gig Economy
So, let’s assume that we can have a digital twin of our “self” that is mirroring our skills and knowledge. This (our) digital twin is a component of the symbiotic autonomous system digital twin. How can it be leveraged in association with the symbiotic digital twin? Knowledge and skills are …
Read More »What would education be like in 2050? Digital Twins
A number of industries are creating digital twins, digital replicas of products, like GE, Tesla, NASA. The idea is to mirror a product in bits keeping the bit replica synchronised with the real one. This allows various types of analyses on the digital twin that can provide insight on the …
Read More »What would education be like in 2050?
Let’s get this square from the beginning. Talking about 2050 is a nonsense if you try to make social prediction. It is fun, but it is not rooted in science. There are so many factors at play that we do not control. However, it might be useful to make some …
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