New cultural models for the West: Toyotism
Have you ever wondered why the Japanese have managed to achieve similar results? Where does the industrial success of this island country poor in natural resources come from?
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Experts warn: don't fall in love with a robot. The story of Jibo
No matter how engaging a device is, or how cute it is, it will never return your affection. Story of the little robot that preceded the virtual assistants Google and Alexa, and broke everyone's hearts by announcing its "death".
Is there a secret laboratory for the iCar in Berlin?
We've been talking about the iCar for a very long time: it's the electric car that Apple is about to create. According to the latest rumors, Apple has built a secret laboratory in the heart of Berlin to develop its iCar. Faz broke the news, adding further details on the project called "Titan", revealed last year by the Wall Street Journal. In Berlin there would be around 15-20 men and women, leading exponents of the German automotive world, to create the car of the future, on the international market by ... Read more
The Internet of Things will be the biggest business in the history of electronics
Think of a world full of objects that behave like links on a website, connecting to each other and interacting to completely transform our user experience. The Internet of Things is the 'goose that lays the golden eggs' of the near future because it can revolutionize all sectors of technology and do it quickly: the latest estimates speak of a 15.000 billion euro market within the next six years. And it's not about mysterious oracles or courageous... Read more
Muse, take a look at your brain
There are several wearable devices already designed to monitor our vital parameters, from heartbeat to sleep patterns: a group of inventors is bringing to the market a user-friendly and wearable approach to brain wave monitoring. InteraXon is a Canadian company that is working hard to introduce a band called Muse, to be worn on the forehead, which uses 4 EEG (Electro Encephalogram) sensors capable of showing the traces of the brain. In the initial release… Read more
Christmas gives us two certainties. Adopt the second.
The future gives us, in relation to the theme of 'Christmas holidays', at least two positive certainties. The first certainty: barring major upheavals in the short term, Christmas will be celebrated as always for many years to come. Among the social changes observable by going backwards along the time line, those relating to "ritual" celebrations are the hardest to change: they often change the origin (for example a celebration born for religious reasons will be converted into a 'pagan' celebration or vice versa ) but the… Read more
Sex and future: will we do it this way?
How will the way we relate to others change? And how will the world's oldest relationship, future sex, be transformed?
5×1000 to the WWF: give a gift to the future.
Our planet needs a small overhaul: with an economy increasingly in crisis and an epochal transition from an energy system based on fossil fuels to another (hopefully ever closer) that focuses entirely on renewables, our presence activity is increasingly important to guarantee new generations greater freedom, greater variety of species and less pollution. We can do a lot: an important principle that will be able to keep our ecosystem standing is to... Read more
An amphibious garden to clean European rivers
Belgian designer Vincent Callebaut, who has always been committed to finding solutions to the problem of water shortages that will hit the planet with the population explosion that has already begun, has developed several concepts over the years that provide new perspectives. One of these is the 'Physalia Project', a cloud of amphibious gardens capable of simultaneously acting as a traveling exhibition space and cleaning system for Europe's rivers. Let's not hide it: our survival depends on the amount of clean water we drink. Second … Read more
