How influential will digital twin (AI) technology be on infrastructure in the coming decade? I’m thinking it might make a great investment opportunity.
>>108743332what the fuck does this snake oil even mean? like the self checkout software at the local grocery store is actually a digital twin of the sneakers bars and bananas?
>>108743953You own a trucking company. Here is your truck (imagine a truck parked outside). Here is your truck's digital twin on the computer. Yeah, it's pretty much a database with everything relating to that truck like parts records, maintenance schedules and, well, everything you have already, but paying me this consulting fee means you're doing AI now and have full 360-degree insight for optimising your service offering paradigm. Doesn't that make you feel important?
>>108743332Digital twins aren't a future trend; they are an existing, dominant reality. The "human" is already being decoded, simulated, and sold.In the logic of surveillance capitalism, the individual is no longer a subject, but a resource. Digital twins of social media users—amalgamations of behavioral data, clicks, and psychological triggers—have already proven that predicting human movement is more profitable than the humans themselves. These models strip away the illusion of agency to create a behavioral surplus, turning your very existence into a tradeable commodity.Applying this to infrastructure is the logical next step in total systemic optimization. Physical reality is being swallowed by its digital shadow:* Infrastructure as a Living Machine: Cities and grids are evolving into autonomous sensory organs that harvest data and self-correct without human intervention.* The Obsolete Individual: From an investment standpoint, the value lies in the spatial intelligence layer. We are moving toward an era where proprietary algorithms manage the world more efficiently than biological decision-makers ever could.The investment opportunity isn't just in "better bridges"—it's in the total commodification of physical space and the automation of reality.
>>108743998so you invented the spreadsheet and Excel?
>>108744009Yeah pretty much, only with vendor lockin and the vendor is only reachable via mobile or PO box for some reason
>>108744009No, they invented a new marketing term for spreadsheets and Excel.It's a ridiculously broad term, I see a lot of this stuff in academia. Some people are doing interesting stuff with full, accurate simulations of processes that allow you to effectively fast-forward and rewind time on your real deployment to diagnose problems or experiment with new procedures and others are just showing off a fancy inventory system.
>>108744052>full, accurate simulations of processes that allow you to effectively fast-forward and rewind time on your real deployment to diagnose problems or experiment with new proceduresthats what i imagined when I saw OP's picyesterday i saw some (likely fake) thing about a guy trying to get into a galaxy s3 that allegedly had 150 bitcoin on it and he was trying patterns for years, but if you could just make a virtual copy of the phone and emulate it then you can just try all the patterns on the emulated verison, or spin up a bunch of emulated versions and try till you get the right one at which point you put it on th ephonesame concept pretty much
how is this any different than a simulator? back in the 1960s we had a "digital twin" for apollo 13
