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Long-term ecological time is sacrificed by short-term time

November 14, 2022 Open Forum

Defining exactly what time is remains a difficult thing in spite of the effort made in the field of science and of instruments of observation and measurement. Each of us would give the answer of the philosopher Saint AUGUSTIN concerning its meaning: “if they don’t ask me, I think I know, but if they ask me, I don’t know”. Contemporary ... Read More »

FOR A UNIVERSAL MORALITY Letter from ALBERT EINSTEIN to the powerful heads of states after the Second World War

March 4, 2022 Open Forum

Letter from ALBERT EINSTEIN to the powerful heads of states after the Second World War (*). As far as I can see, there is one consideration [that] stands at the threshold of all moral teaching. If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for ... Read More »

Unification and universality of natural phenomena in memory of Abdu-Salam

January 4, 2022 Open Forum

Ahmed Abdu-Salam, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 passed away 25 years ago, on November 21, 1996 in London. After having contributed to the progress of world research in the field of physics, in particular through his large physics research center which he had founded in Trieste, Italy in 1964. Abdu Salam, who received several prizes and several distinctions, was ... Read More »

THE LONG TERM SACRIFICED BY THE PRESENT.

November 2, 2021 Open Forum

Defining exactly what is time is a difficult task in spite of the effort made in the field of science and of tools of observation and time measurement. Each of us would give the answer of the philosopher Saint AUGUSTIN concerning its meaning: “What is time then? If nobody asks me, I know; but if I were desirous to explain ... Read More »

Interview with the director of Lte magazine

July 1, 2021 Open Forum

Interview conducted by Mr. Mohammed Taher SBIHI, management researcher, with Mr. Ahmed Khaouja, director of Lte magazine, on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of Lte magazine Question 1, Let me come back for a few moments to the idea itself of creating this magazine, which makes telecoms, digital technology and regulation its favorite areas? Answer: In response to your ... Read More »

Message from a Martian to a human

July 1, 2021 Open Forum

Dear humans, we, Martians, are very sensitive to your great efforts to join us here on our planet Mars. But unfortunately, we really don’t want to see you come to us. It’s not a lack of hospitality on our part or a lack of space at home, either. We have it all what we need in fact. To say the ... Read More »

May 17, the inescapable anniversary

May 2, 2021 Open Forum

A certain global crisis, unparalleled, which still strikes all countries, has revealed the essential role of information and communication technologies (ICTs). It also revealed the great disparities, between poor and rich countries, and differences locally, within the same countries, between rural and urban areas. Faced with this unprecedented crisis, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is working tirelessly for ICTs development ... Read More »

Covid-19: Some lessons to be learned from the mid-term review (March 2020-March 2021)

May 2, 2021 Open Forum

From a scientific and technological point of view Telecoms networks and information technology have enabled humans to develop resistance to the pandemic. The last time a virus was so devastating was in 1918, when the famous Spanish flu broke out. At that time, there were barely 13 million landline telephones in the world, for a world population of 1.86 billion. ... Read More »

The search for unity is the engine of great physicists.

March 1, 2021 Open Forum

Unintentionally perhaps, science sometimes manages to unify phenomena which seem to be distant in appearance. Thus, at the beginning of the 1980s in the European Organization for Nuclear Research laboratories (CERN) in Geneva, the electromagnetic force, exerting its influence over relatively large distances, was unified with the weak nuclear force, force acting at the heart of the atomic nucleus and ... Read More »

Le marathon de la prétendue liberté.

January 3, 2021 Open Forum

L’impossible confinement : Depuis qu’il a appris à marcher, l’Homme ne tient plus en place et passe son temps à errer. Ainsi, cette habitude de s’agiter dans toutes les directions, acquise à travers les époques, l’a rendu irréductible et impossible à mettre entre quatre murs. Et quand il est contraint à rester près de la grotte, comme lors du confinement imposé ... Read More »

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In the metaverse world, designed using several technologies, each user will have their own avatar, a kind of digital "self", that is to say, an imaginary character they will choose to represent them in this virtual place. Let us recall in passing that the word "metaverse" is made up of "meta" which means transcendent and "vers" which implies "to turn" that has produced several words such as universe, conversation and many more... The metaverse or web 3.0 revolution comes down to the fact that we will not be content, as usual, to look at the screen of our computers, but we will also be completely immersed in the Internet via headsets. Even if the real metaverse networks are, for the moment, at the development stage, several sectors are already rushing to invest in them because, they believe, the metaverse constitutes a new Eldorado to conquer. Thus, brands are already there, such as the “Carrefour” chain, which recently organized virtual job interviews via the Sandbox platform. All the major American firms in the ICT industry crave these new metaverse markets; the GAFAMs (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) as well as their Chinese counterparts, the BATXs (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi) are working hard to conquer a market that is barely emerging. Each giant, American or Chinese, wants to grab a good share of this great and very promising business, since the Bloomberg Intelligence forecasts, that this brand-new activity will attain a turnover of over 800 billion dollars by 2024. For metaverse to function properly at the global level, it is necessary to implement a standardization of the various processes. The metaverse will also require powerful computer processing and sophisticated electronic hardware. Intel, for example, estimates that metaverse requires a 1000-fold increase in the computing power of current computers. Is it already in quantum computing? Metaverse will have, among other advantages, the possibility of offering distance training of such quality that it will be difficult to distinguish the virtual from face-to-face. On the other hand, because of their helmets, metaverse users will have to master the geometric space where they operate. This will be the great challenge for the "metaversers" not to increase the number of accidents as the statistics are beginning to point to serious and real risks. Without neglecting some psychological aspects of this new revolution, such as attachment to one's digital "self" and preferring the virtual world to the detriment of reality and living in society. Several studies have already raised the possibility of users becoming irrationally attached to their avatars, as what it happened to a journalist from the British Times, who spent several hours on a metaverse platform, thus, concluded that the metaverse seems to encourage anti-social behavior. The other drawback, which is not negligible and which will be the subject of Lte magazine next publication, is the environmental impact of the metaverse. In short, metaverse technology seems to be well engaged on the right path, unless the supply of the electronic elements necessary for the metaverse networks is also, being impacted by the current crisis in the global supply chain of electronic components. This file will therefore be simple and complete, starting with this first article which deals with the metaverse in seven points and which will help to better understand everything related to this new technology, and will also propose some expected applications of the metaverse. Furthermore, the legal aspect will be presented as a necessity for the regulation of the metaverse world, and finally, this file will be closed by an interview carried out with Guillaume, an expert in the field of metaverse at Digitevent in France. In the free forum, Ata-ilah Khaouja will review the burning energy news around "Textual sobriety, energetic intoxication". In the telecom section, we will offer you an exceptionally rich article on the history of telecoms, which will retrace, more precisely, the emergence of Moroccan telecoms within the medina of Rabat. And as always, other relevant reading awaits you in the other sections, notably in “events” and “media library”. Ahmed Khaouja ITU expert and director Lte magazine.