Detroit has been known as “Cars Capital” for many years. Even though today it is no longer the largest car manufacturer it seems it wants to keep leading … in a way. This time is in “filling her up” for free. Detroit police is busy trying to stop hackers to …
Read More »Exploring ideas to foster the Metaverse – IX
5. IoT The metaverse, whether you see it as a purely digital space “connected” in some ways to the physical space or as a merge of the two spaces needs to have some parts of it “synchronised” with the physical world and “aware” of what is going on in the …
Read More »Technology Predictions 2022: Cybersecurity in critical infrastructures and biomedical supply chain
The 2022 Technology Predictions includes a focus on Cybersecurity in critical infrastructures. Indeed over the last few years, and even more so in the years to come, infrastructures are shifting their monitoring, control and often decision making to the cyberspace, they are becoming more and more software controlled. Additionally, infrastructures …
Read More »Post-Pandemic Scenarios – XXXV – ReInventing the Car 4
What volume of data are we talking about? The estimate at 2030 is between 1 to 2 TB of data per car per day! Today’s connected car have over hundred sensors and the estimate is a production of 25GB per hour. A mind boggling figure. At least four questions arise …
Read More »Planning for the new World – II
Harnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution We are already in the path of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the one characterised by a merging of the physical, digital and -at least for some- biological world. Personally I tend to limit the characterisation to the merging of physical and digital leaving the merging …
Read More »2019 Tech Trends II
Following on yesterday’s post on 2019 top tech trends let’s look at the remaining 5 technologies that are expected to have broad dissemination and high impact in 2019: Active security protection – the person that invented the ship also invented the shipwreck and the castaway. This is a truth that applies …
Read More »Your drone knows quite a bit about you
That drones are becoming more and more popular is no secret. The figures for 2017 indicate (for the US) over 1 million drones registered to FAA out of 1.5 million flying in the US and their number is going to increase to 7 millions by 2020. Almost 3 million drones …
Read More »Digital Transformation in Health Care – VI
I started this series of posts on the Digital Transformation of Health Care pointing out at the three looming disruptions ahead: de-localisation, personalisation and digitalisation. These correspond, broadly speaking to the area of Digital Health, Precision Health and Big Data, even though these areas are connected with one another as …
Read More »Transhumanisms: Increasing Human Thought Capabilities IV
Improving communications with the brain It is now close to 50 years that we have the idea of a Brain Computer Interface that could allow a communications between them. From the idea born in the seventies (as a technical concept to be investigated) huge steps forward have been made, particularly …
Read More »Looking at security makes me feel … insecure!
Yesterday I discovered this nice infographic produced by Drone Industry Insights where you can see the MANY threats in the area of drones. I would have never though there could be so many, even though looking at each single one I have to agree that the threat exists. One of …
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