As an affiliate researcher of The Institute For The Future (Palo Alto, US - www.iftf.org), Mattia explores what technology holds in the coming decade and details a world where the convergence of the Internet of Things, immersive media and advances in network speed will envelop us in a continual stream of information, seamlessly merging our digital and physical worlds.

Mattia describes a future of “ambient communications” that will create an information-rich media environment extending well beyond television, smartphones, and computers to include objects, our bodies, and other living things.