Léon Smiers works as a Solution Architect for Capgemini in the Netherlands, where he is one of the leading specialists for Oracle Technology and Architecture. He has done a lot of work and research in the field of integration and new technologies and architectures, such as SOA, BPM, Case Management, RFID, cloud and chatbots, on which he has written articles and presented at international conferences. Furthermore, he successfully published ‘Oracle Case Management Solutions’ and ‘The CORA model – An IT Application Reference Architecture’
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Part 4
The ability to apply technical skills is at the root of human superiority over other animals. The simple stone tool, possibly the first technical invention, was used as far back as 2.5 million years ago; scientific methods helped create a formal basis for technology and flourished during the fifteenth century Renaissance; the Industrial Revolution followed a few hundred years later; twentieth-century technologies focused on automation and productivity; and computer-related technologies have been dominating the twenty-first century. Interestingly, the so-called digital technologies, a subset of computing technologies, have surged only for the last couple of decades, yet their impact has been explosive.
