Tag Archives: smartphones

3. New York – Urban Digital Twins It is a no brainer that the use of a digital space mirroring the physical space can decrease cost, improve efficiency and make possible a variety of new activities (and services) to the benefit of the citizienship. So far so good. However, when …

People living in the Bay Area (San Francisco, CA), woke up few weeks ago (October 25th) because of an alarm message generated by their Android based smartphone saying: An earthquake of 4.8 magnitude is likely to hit you in the next few minutes, take cover. Indeed, an Earthquake took place, …

Worldwide there are 7.97 billion people and 10.98 billion mobile connections. There are 7.26 billion mobile users that is 91% of people own a mobile phone. Great, so where is the problem? Unfortunately, it is the usual problem we have with with statistics. If I ate 2 chicken and you …

5G is being deployed in many parts of the world, and has reached some significant coverage in the North America, Europe and Far East Asia (China, South Korea and Japan). Among all these Countries South Korea is leading in terms of coverage and penetration of 5G enabled devices. Looking at …

As of February 2021 there are 3.8 billion smartphones users in the world and an additional 1 billion with a mobile phone. The number of mobile phones is rapidly dwindling (there were 2 billion of them in 2016) and we can expect to have them disappearing in (mostly the first …

Googling on “how much Data” you get a list of over 4 billion pointers, and that is starting to give an idea of the “data landscape”. Interestingly, the first pointers proposed by the search engine refer to “how much data do I need to store”, a question related to the …

This has been a long series of posts, the longest I wrote. The aim in presenting these Megatrends was to stimulate discussion and quite a bit occurred, I received several comments out of some 30,000 views. Wow! That’s why I decided to revise all posts and create an ebook (you can …

Here we go again. The smartphone has brought onto the hands of billions of people (3.5 billions –estimated- by end of 2020, there were 3.2 billions at the end of 2019) an incredible processing capacity that is actually becoming unlimited whenever you have a good internet connection, something that is …

2. Global gigabit connectivity at ultra-low cost This megatrend is actually the convergence of three: “global”, “gigabit ” and “ultra-low cost”. The quest for coverage and for performance is nothing new, as a matter of fact. the novelty is in the “quality” and “quantity” foreseen by this trend. Connectivity has …

Global Abundance Although we usually hear dark predictions on shortage of food for a world population that keeps increasing, production data tell a different story. As shown in the graphics productions is actually improving faster than the population growth (this is for cereals, it is true for several other areas, …