The Metaverse is clearly inflated by a strong hype and this is not surprising. Actually, it is what happens to most new technologies that “need”to generate an hype to harvest investment funds. This connects directly to a growing number of startups entering this area. If you are interested in monitoring …
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World population is getting older and a few companies see a market opportunity in this: providing various forms of support to elderly addressing a broad range of needs. An aging population is not just a population where there are more elderly people, it is also a world where the number …
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As I previously mentioned in this blog, I was fortunate to participate in the Future of Work team led by Dejan Milojicic and had the opportunity of listening to several people all around the world on today’s challenges, tech opportunity, societal shifts that are shaping the future of work. I …
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Image recognition coupled with progress in artificial intelligence getting data from a variety of sensors is turning the magic mirrors we learnt about in fables when we were little kids into everyday reality. Today they are not into the business of telling who is the “nicest of them all”. Rather, …
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As in the previous years the IEEE Computer Society has published a set of predictions on Technologies that are expected to make a significant impact in the coming few years (short term). These technologies have been chosen by a team of IEEE volunteers that first proposed a broader set and …
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If you ever had direct or indirect experience with chronic wounds (wounds that are very hard to heal) you know how complex is the monitoring, as well as -quite often- how painful for the patient the removal of bandages, the cleaning of the wound and its medication. Now a team …
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Technology is providing a helping hand to medical doctors and healthcare operators. One area is helping in finding the veins of a patient. Normally nurses (and doctors) do not have any problem in finding a vein in the arm to draw blood or inject drugs. In a few patients, however, …
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This is the sad story I have lived, actually I am living, in first person: how to get vaccinated in Piedmont, Italy and the IT infrastructure supporting, hampering actually, it. Beyond the frustration it has some lesson to learn. It all starts with an SMS message informing that I need …
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Several years ago I was amazed at seeing at the MIT a photo camera (well, it was, actually, a set of equipment) able to take pictures of what was around a corner using scattered light reflected by objects hidden from my line of sight. It looked like pure magic. It …
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The amount of technology used in healthcare is huge, and growing. As shown in the graphics there is a relentless surge of new technologies that are advancing all aspects of healthcare. Significant progress over the coming 3 years is expected on (in order of shorter deployment horizon): Digital Health Insurance …
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