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I already addressed aspects related to the consolidation and diffusion of information in other posts, like here, here, here and here. I was recently asked to answer a set of questions by a publisher on the future of books. Here are the questions and my answers. I welcome your thoughts. …

The availability of tools supporting the writing of articles and books plus the availability of platforms to distribute them has reached a tipping point where more and more people are writing and collectively amateur writers output is exceeding the one of professional writers both in terms of production AND in …

10. CityVerse vs Metaverse I mentioned a number of times that the Metaverse Initiative run by the Future Direction Committee is expecting a Metaverse where people live. That is not a utopian, or dystopian, view of the future with people drifting into the cyberspace leaving the physical one for most …

Continues from previous post – The workplace in the Metaverse It is now a few months and I have a pretty good idea of what it means working in the metaverse, or better I should say in this company metaverse. Talking to colleagues that have experienced other companies metaverses I …

I am participating in a new IEEE Future Direction Committee initiative on Metaverse and we are preparing a first White Paper. What follows is a first scenario I developed for that WP. Your comments, as always, are welcome! Working in the Metaverse Eight years ago the pandemic got me used …

I am involved in several groups within the IEEE and in a few other organisations that are looking at the evolution of technology. At IEEE we have many Societies each one looking at a specific area (see an updated list here) from a technology point of view. They are all …

Just the other day I was in a meeting with other IEEE volunteers, discussing how to leverage AI to the benefit of IEEE members. As it often happens, the discussion drifted and focussed on how can we tell if a submitted paper (to our journals, conferences) has been written by …

So, we are moving towards a time when knowledge can be managed by tools in an autonomous way: imagine a book containing a description of chip making that keeps -autonomously- to update itself so that anytime you read it you are sure to get the latest available knowledge now imagine …

Stating that knowledge is an asset, that knowledge is a need for both people, companies and institutions is stating the obvious. Now technology can provide better tools to manage knowledge, that is to accrue, store, identify, transfer, execute knowledge. We have also faced with the fact that knowledge exists in …

In the previous posts in this series I discussed a potential new approach to search for information, shifting from the acquisition of data (search engine based on keywords) to the acquisition of meaning (semantic search engines) and then on to the search for “useful” information, that is info that can …