He defined the digital 6th sense as the augmentation of human ability: “We all have a digital life, we have a presence in cyber space. In the fall of 2013, when Paul Jacobs was CEO and Chairman of Qualcomm Incorporated, he delivered a Regents’ Lecture at UC Berkeley on the “Digital Sixth Sense” (see video above). When watching Jacobs in an interview with CNBC (December 2020) in this regard, I could not help but see a highly sterile environment behind him. Jacobs, founder of XCOM Labs (provider of wireless communications solutions), predicted that within a decade, we may be working with an avatar or a Digital Twin (DT). In this essay, I am focusing on one small element in the field of digital twinning, involving healthcare and bioinformatics, and the merging of these two domains within the context of purported epidemics. The actual terminology of “digital twin” was reportedly first mentioned in 1998, referring to a digital copy of actor Alan Alda’s voice. The approach of using a digital replica of its original physical representation can be applied to nearly any sector of business and society, and integrates big data (captured via embedded sensors), machine-to-machine communication, and machine-learning technology.ĭigital twin technology has been practiced since the 1960s, first gaining ground by NASA in space programming. In June 2017, Ben Rossi of Raconteur, defined digital twinning as “the mapping of a physical asset to a digital platform.” In its simplest explanation, digital twins digitize the physical world. One emerging framework within the massive scope of digital transformation - riding in on the crowned Trojan horse of the Fourth Industrial Revolution - is Digital Twins (DTs). We are living in an increasingly digitalized, sensor-laden environment, inside our homes, in our outdoor environment, and within living things, including our human bodies.

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