digital twin Concepts

We Are as Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance

by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 13 Apr 2026 · 225pp · 76,418 words

the map. A decade later, digitization reaches everywhere. AI can interpret the world. Appliances, factories, and whole cities now speak through the Internet of Things. Digital twins mirror everything from jet engines to the human body. Wearables and genomics translate biology into data, while emotion-recognition systems read moods and mental health

Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI

by Carissa Véliz · 21 Apr 2026 · 503pp · 129,255 words

chains and recommend alternative sourcing strategies before a potential shortage becomes critical. Machine learning supply chain systems integrate multiple data streams, creating what experts call digital twins—virtual representations of logistical networks that can be optimized in real time. Health-care businesses use machine learning to forecast patient hospital admission rates, predict

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, 115 de Waal, Frans, 225 deworming medicine, 204, 214 Dialectic of Enlightenment (Horkheimer and Adorno), 62 Diana, Princess, 21 Dickens, Charles, 60, 208, 213, 279 digital twins, 72 digitization, 149, 186–87 surveillance and, 143–44 Diogenes Laertius, 297 Diogenes of Sinope, 224 disenchantment, 26–29 Disney, Walt, 272 distributions fat-tail

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

by Madhumita Murgia · 20 Mar 2024 · 336pp · 91,806 words

I chose not to do. But it did leave me with a nagging fear of what might exist out there unbeknownst to me, my scattered digital twins over whom I had no control or ownership. When I spoke to Cher, she said the idea that someone could take a photo of her

New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI

by Frank Pasquale · 14 May 2020 · 1,172pp · 114,305 words

matching a query, a computer can rapidly compare images of your colon or skin with those in the database. Ideally, machines learn to spot “evil digital twins”—tissue that proved in the past to be dangerous, which is menacingly similar to your own.9 This machine vision—spotting danger where even experienced

The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 28 Jan 2020 · 501pp · 114,888 words

satin Jimmy Choos sitting in your closet?” asks your friend. No problem. Every piece of physical clothing you own in the real world has a digital twin available in the virtual. You ask, and instantly, you’re wearing them. When you’re done selecting your outfit, the AI pays the bill. While

How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, From Home Renovations to Space Exploration

by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner · 16 Feb 2023 · 353pp · 97,029 words

yet more ideas. In a real sense, the Guggenheim building was first fully and successfully constructed on a computer. Only after the completion of its “digital twin”—a term that would be coined years after Gehry first created one—did construction begin in the real world. That approach enabled not only artistic

Data Action: Using Data for Public Good

by Sarah Williams · 14 Sep 2020

of data that Twitter produces daily.6 Programmers at Google use this data to construct 3D representations of the physical world, often referred to as digital twins, which are used to guide autonomous vehicles on the road. In this virtual environment, autonomous vehicles—or any robot for that matter—can be guided

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Network 82 Digital Matatus project, Nairobi, Kenya 77, 146, 151, 151–152, 154–155, 157, 183, 216 Digital Neighborhoods research project 126–127, 128–129 Digital twins 189 Disabled people, digital tools for 190–191 Doctors Without Borders 80 Domesday Book 2, 3 Do no harm 220–221 Dosemagen, Shannon 70–71

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

by Klaus Schwab · 11 Jan 2016 · 179pp · 43,441 words

applications feasible in standard communication networks – Design of products to be “digitally connectable” – Addition of digital services on top of products – Digital twin provides precise data for monitoring, controlling and predicting – Digital twin becomes active participant in business, information and social processes – Things will be enabled to perceive their environment comprehensively, and react and

Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts

by Jill Abramson · 5 Feb 2019 · 788pp · 223,004 words

same values that Bradlee and Downie had inculcated in the newsroom on 15th Street. Graham thought the culture of the main newsroom would suffocate its digital twin. He also liked that Virginia was a nonunion state. Its storied history and strong local ties did little to save the Post from the inexorable

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amounted to a website that was only marginally sleeker than it had been more than a decade prior. News websites were still designed to be digital twins of newspapers. For Smith, this presented an enormous business opportunity. “I feel in general the 800–1,200 word form of the news article is

Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business

by David G. W. Birch and Victoria Richardson · 28 Apr 2024 · 249pp · 74,201 words

literacy courses for young people. These and other early examples demonstrate the spectrum of virtual worlds that lies ahead of us. This idea of building ‘digital twins’ in the Metaverse is well established but there are people looking to build the other way around! The Spectra project is exploring the idea of

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. Table 1. Building blocks of the industrial metaverse. (Source: Arthur D. Little, July 2023.) Building blocks Industry 4.0 (previous decade) Industrial metaverse (coming decade) Digital twins *** *** IoT *** *** AI ** *** Simulation ** *** Visualization * *** Web3 * ** Edge computing ** *** The more asterisks, the greater the importance. The implementation of such an industrial metaverse is not without its

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the sound and secure digital identity and digital asset structures set out in later chapters, these risks can be made manageable. Case study: Digital Singapore Digital Twin Singapore is a dynamic, 3D digital model of the city-state. It is designed to simulate, visualize and analyse real-world scenarios in a virtual

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environment. The idea of developing a ‘digital twin’ of Singapore was driven by the country’s ambitions to become a ‘Smart Nation’, where digital technologies are harnessed to improve citizens’ lives, create economic

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to combine all relevant data sets, allowing citizens to view and verify information to help inform urban planning. Completed in 2023, it is the first digital twin of an entire country – a highly detailed 3D representation used across government agencies to support decision-making (Walker 2023). The Singapore Land Authority is now

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working on the next stage of the project: a national subsurface digital twin of Singapore. The digital twin’s wide variety of uses include the following. Urban planning. With the digital twin, urban planners can simulate the impact of new infrastructure projects, from skyscrapers to public parks, and make

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and pollution can be tracked, helping in the design of policies for a better living environment. Public services. By integrating data from various sources, the digital twin can help optimize public services like waste collection, public transport, etc. Research and innovation. The platform can be used by researchers, businesses and innovators to

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test new ideas and solutions in a virtual environment before implementing them in the real world. Digital Twin Singapore is an ambitious project, representing a significant step forward in the realm of smart cities. It demonstrates how virtual worlds can be harnessed to

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impact of their choices, making governance more data-driven and allowing a variety of stakeholders to collaborate more effectively using a shared digital platform. The digital twin is a virtual world, not a metaverse, but it demonstrates how real and virtual collaboration can work to create spaces that could then evolve into

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meet these needs and create new revenue streams. And, as John Blicq observes in his book, given the proliferation of data and the investment in digital twins, the longer-term opportunity for insurers is to move from remediation to prevention (Blicq 2022). Digital assets. A few insurers offer coverage for exchange hacks

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