by Claudio Sanna | Mar 16, 2022 | Technology Insight
Prototyping transformation, an example in the pharmaceutical industry Incumbents in the pharmaceutical industry operate in an ecosystem that is highly regulated, where change has historically been incremental rather than transformative. Entry barriers in the market...
by Claudio Sanna | Feb 22, 2022 | Foresight practice, Technology Insight
Why foresight in policymaking Foresight – structured thinking about the far future including multiple possible futures – is commonly used in policy making ( in Da costa et al. (2008) for the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission). Foresight...
by Claudio Sanna | Jan 26, 2022 | Technology Insight
Science and computers Since the dawn of the computer age back in the 50s, computation has been a fundamental tool for scientists in every field. Aiding researchers to analyse, verify and test scientific data or hypotheses through mathematical means. It has greatly...
by Claudio Sanna | Dec 15, 2021 | Technology Insight
What is a quantum computer? To understand what a quantum computer is and how it works, it is useful to step back and focus on a comparison with classical computers and the notion of information. A classical computer works by manipulating ‘bits’, which are streams of...
by Claudio Sanna | Nov 17, 2021 | Technology Insight
Computation today Traditionally, the processing of data in electronics has relied on integrated chips featuring large numbers of transistors, which are microscopic switches that control the flow of electrical current by turning it on and off. Moore’s law proposes...
by Claudio Sanna | Oct 7, 2021 | Technology Insight
As the old saying goes, the map is not the territory. There is a gap between reality and depiction. Any map or representation of reality requires a level of abstraction. Surrealist painter Rene Magritte succinctly made this point in his work The Treachery of images,...
