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openDemocracy: “Dopo Berlusconi - dieci domande alla opposizione italiana”

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Un articolo di Geoff Andrews, dal titolo "Beyond Berlusconi: ten questions to Italy’s opposition" sul magnifico openDemocracy, che vale la pena di leggere per intero, analizza le sfide che l'opposizione politica italiana non può rinunciare ad affrontare nell'era del dopo Berlusconi. Finisce con dieci domande precise che sono emerse ad una ...

Singularity University in Wired.it

Friday, January 8th, 2010

  The January 2010 issue of  Wired Italia. has a very nice article by Luca Sofri about Singularity University, and even more in depth about Ray Kurzweil, one of SU's founders together with Peter Diamandis. Luca came to visit Singularity University at NASA Ames during the inaugural GSP-09 in July 2009, and ...

Wishes for the year 2010: “Serendipity”

Friday, December 25th, 2009

Photo by eschipul That you may spend in the year that comes and the ones after it those ten thousand hours that according to Malcolm Gladwell it takes to become truly expert in the field of your passion, even if new, even if it has nothing to do with your ...

Internet for peace

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Internet is not just a tool. Its effects are not neutral, and symmetrical for good, or evil. There is a net drift of beneficial consequences as people gain from it in expressing creativity, transparency, and communicate freely across the globe. On November 20 the official candidacy of the Internet and the ...

Back at the Singularity University for the Executive Program

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Image by david.orban via Flickr The Singularity University Executive Program just started this weekend and I will be lecturing in the Networks and Computing Systems track about the Internet Of Things, and holding a Spime Design Workshop. The program of nine weeks has been condensed—appropriately enough for a course talking about accelerating ...

The ability to imagine and create new worlds

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

There will be those who say that this is just rhetoric. But if it is—and I say this as a missionary atheist—then it is an "in the beginning was the Word" kind of rhetoric  which creates the worlds drawn from the words. Making real what for others is not even ...

Singularity Summit Day 2

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Here's day two: Singularity Summit 09 Day 2

Live blogging the Singularity Summit 09

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Sitting in the main theater at 92Y, everything is ready for the Singularity Summit to start in New York. Embedded here you will find my live notes from the event for Day 1, and I plan to do the same in a separate post for tomorrow, Day 2. (I am ...

Stephen Wolfram to speak at Singularity Summit

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Stephen Wolfram, author of the book A New Kind Of Science, creator of the Mathematica symbolic calculation software suit, and of the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine is a recent addition to the roster of speakers at the Singularity Summit in New York. In a recent webcast the audience in large numbers ...

Anders Sandberg, and the Ethics of Uploading

Monday, September 28th, 2009

  Whole Brain Emulation is going to create synthetic humans, if the functionalist point of view of neuroscience is right, by implementing their thought processes in forthcoming hardware, and software systems, which could arrive as early as the middle of this century. What are the rights of these uploads? How will ...