I work in a field adjacent to all this. My org used to use the term "real time" to mean anything up to and including near-real time. We've recently switched to calling our work "in time" prediction to clarify that we're not referring to real-time in the RTOS sense. Digital twins are a hot topic in aerospace maintenance right now.

I looked up the sales material for the software team I used to work on - https://sw.aveva.com/blog/visualize-asset-performance-manage...

Digital twin is right in the subtitle XD

Use of the term in searches seems to have picked up quite a bit over the past couple of years, so might not have been in such common use ~3yrs ago:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

I always forget that this is possible to look up - ty

Digital Twin is essentially a buzzword like Cloud. It can mean whatever you want it to, I’m afraid

I think I've figured out the IBM-style buzzwords like "mobile productivity cloud", and I'm making good progress on all the ones in SJC airport ads, but the one that's still got me is "digital transformation". Shows up all the time in my promoted tweets.

Didn't everyone digitally transform in like the 90s?