Opinion
56 articles
Powering the present
Understanding the present can be as daunting as imagining the future. For all intents and purposes, the two have merged.
24/01/2019
Web summit is turning green
The summit welcomes thousands of entrepreneurs, potential investors, and large corporates who use the event to recruit their next generation of talented young men and women.
04/12/2018
Inspiring the “phygital”
I don’t know where technology will lead us in the future, but I do know that a smart city is one that improves our lives while preserving our values.
09/11/2018
Beware the dark side
As cities digitalize their infrastructure and services, today’s cybersecurity specialists are already enlisting the forces of AI to help protect them from outside attack.
28/03/2019
The Speed of Business
Soon, IoT-enabled digital workspaces will help create office environments that automatically adapt to a user’s individual preferences.
28/03/2019
An electrifying future
It’s 2038 and the last conventional thermal engine car has, just like the dinosaur, been consigned to the museum.
19/07/2018
Implications of China’s ban on importing trash
Although it is not widely discussed outside of the waste and recycling industry, China has increasingly become the destination for much of the paper and plastic that Europeans and Americans diligently separate in their household garbage.
23/11/2018
The human touch
No value can be extracted from data without a complete knowledge of the human element behind it, and data processing cannot be successful without a clear and thought-out strategy.
19/04/2018
After the digital gold rush
You should expect to start seeing Blockchain anywhere business-to-business or business-to-consumer processes need to be streamlined, validated, secured, and guaranteed.
28/03/2019
Innovating sustainability
When digital services are delivered via the cloud, public cloud providers like Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft can leverage massive efficiencies of scale that no corporate data center could match.
18/04/2018