Today, we are witnessing a progressive diffusion of ultra-broadband fixed-mobile connectivity, the
deployment of network and service platforms based on Cloud and Edge Computing,
the booming of Artificial Intelligence … all of this for providing
any sort of digital services for our daily life. It‘s the Digital Transformation of the
Society.
It looks like we are
embedding a sort of “nervous system” into the reality: wide adoption of mobile terminals-devices and the
Internet of Things is allowing to collect enormous big data sets, which are
transmitted by ultra-broadband, low latency network connections (e.g., 5G) to
Cloud and Edge Computing Data Centers (DCs). These DCs, in turn, will store and
elaborate the collected data in order to infer decisions which then will be
exploited, locally, by actuators. It’s
the feedback loop of any autonomic/nervous system.
There are big challenges in
the future for granting sustainability: transmission and processing of enormous quantity of
data in (almost) real time (to close the loops), the lowering of energy
consumption, taming the “complexity”, increasing resilience,
security. But, Electronics starts facing physically fundamental
bottlenecks.
Today, there is
a growing interests - and several investments from Industries worldwide -
about Quantum Technologies, and their potential exploitations for meeting the
requirements of the future Internet.
