Welcome to your future.Please, let me introduce you the next revolution in computing, telecommunications and robotics.

And also your next personal assistant: It's name is Lightning.

Join Jack in his typical day and see by yourself how Lightning can help him in several

situations.I will explain you how it works later.

Enjoy!

Good morning Jack!Wake up and look what a sunny day we have!

Get up! I'll tell you in the kitchen. I've just prepared your breakfast and it won't taste the same if it gets cold.

Good morning, Lightning, what's the plan for today?

By the way, you've run out of milk. I've add it to your shopping list.The list is getting bigger and bigger, perhaps you should consider doing the shopping.

Okay, buy all the things on the list on the supermarket. Send my drone for them in a while, when it finishes cleaning the windows.

Okay.So, this is your plan for today:You have two meetings this morning at work. I'll tell you the details once there, I don't mean to disturb too early.

Well, I'm sure you won't forget. Remind me about it later please. And also book for dinner in a proper restaurant! Something between 30 and 50 euros would be fine.

After work, at 16:30, you have to go visit Dr. Smith to have your audition checked.

Aaand you have the date with Jane at 19:00. Don't forget you promised to get her up at her home!

Your car is waiting at the door. You should go now if you don't want to arrive late to work.Would you like your drone to get the dishes into the dish washer before doing the shopping?

Yes, please

Don't worry, I'll book that restaurant for you.

While you drive me to work, Lightning, could you tell me any important news I

should have heard about?

Lets see, there's been a huge earthquake

in Italy, but as it was detected in enough

advance, there are no victims.

President Carter has said that our

economy is growing fast.

Yesterday Spain beat France in the third

round of European Nations League...

Just on time, here you are, at your workstation.As I've said before, you have two meetings this morning.

Thank you, Lightning. See you later.

The other one is at 12 o'clock with those Brazilian investors. Good luck with them! If you need me, just say it!

First one is with your head of department and starts in 30 minutes.

It's already coming! By the way, your drone has finished allocating the shopping in the fridge.

Sure!

While your car arrives, would you like to see some pictures of “Ichiban”, the restaurant where you are having dinner tonight?

It has also left some milk, water, cereals and snacks in the pantry.

Lightning, tell my car to come here for me. It's time to go to the clinic.

The trouble is with his left ear, doctor. I've made him the basic checking and I feel he is somehow starting to lose audition.I'll send the results of the checking to your computer.

Lightning, present the problem to Dr. Smith.

Let's see them...

Lightning, I'd like to manually drive the car after getting Jane up. Okay, okay, I understand. If you

want anything else, just say it. But I

think I better not disturb you until

tomorrow,...

Good bye, Jack.No problem. Anything else?

One more thing: Prepare a warm atmosphere in my house for the night, just in case. You know, low music, calid lights, a pleasant aroma,...

Good bye, Lightning!

Then, what is Lightning?

● Comes from the cloud● It's powerful● It's fast

Lightning

● A virtual personal assistant● It has no physical entity, it is located in 'the cloud'.● You can interact with it from every device you have.● It can control every device you have

How it works

Sounds like a far future? Don't think so.In fact, the technology we would need for creating an assistant like this is already developed or being developed:

● Cloud computing● Fast networks, such as 5G● Autonomous vehicles

How it works: The core

● All the processing is done in the cloud, allowing Lightning to have more computing power and memory than any computer you could have at home.

● Every single device you have, from your smartphone to your coffee maker, including your car or your drone has a very small, very cheap computer in it, because it don't need to process lots of data as this processing is done in the cloud.

How it works: Connection

● Thanks to 5G networks, the user experience of using Lightning is very natural, as it doesn't experience any kind of lag.

● It is also safe. For example, while driving your

car, it can process the data received from the sensors and send the signal to the wheels in real time to avoid collisions.

How it works: Robotics

● Lightning can take control of your machines, such as your car, your drone or all the domotics in your house.

● It can process and understand the data obtained from the sensors of these devices and make them behave the way you want.