Fabio Tantaro

Engineer, FCSI Consultant, buildingSMART Partner, Tech Startups Mentor

Clash of Clans or a game of strategy

The featured image of this article shows the main characters of Mr. Robot, an American 4-season psychological techno-thriller television series created by Sam Esmail for the USA Network. It stars Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer and hacker with social anxiety disorder, clinical depression, and dissociative identity disorder.   E Corp, renamed by …

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This isn’t about making more pies, it’s about redefining pie reality

A few years ago, between 2017 and 2019, I spent a lot of time going back and forth from Lausanne in Switzerland to London, where I was attending a Business School for Startups, willing to launch my own venture. That experience gave me the opportunity to be seated in an open space full of great …

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If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.

“You are not the customer. You are the product.”  This phrase, or versions of it, have been popularly cited over the past few years as a criticism of social media.   “Free as in speech, not as in beer.” Richard Stallman, the infamous GNU/Linux OS (Operating System) project’s lead architect and organizer, explained that free …

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MythBuster: BIM, LOD, IFC are just buzzwords

A buzzword is a trendy word or phrase, popular in a specific field (often tech or business) and frequently used in the media and conversation, though sometimes excessively or abusively, losing part of its original meaning. It often sounds authoritative, but can be vague or devoid of specific content, such as “artificial intelligence”, “digital transformation”, …

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