Death is not the solution. Death is the problem. The UN has started the final procedures to put to a vote in front of the General Assembly a resolution for a universal moratorium on the death penalty. While not binding, the adoption of a resolution like this would be a further step towards an understanding [...]
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Is the ‘long tail’ a genuinely new phenomenon?
November 12th, 2007
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photo by benoutram ‘The Long Tail‘ is the title of a book by Chris Anderson, editor of Wired, and of an apparently new phenomenon which many of us following the online worlds have come to understand from Chris’s blog of the same name ‘The Long Tail’. Put succintly, the concept of the long tail refers [...]
Liveblogging the Singularity Summit 2007 – Day Two – afternoon
September 9th, 2007
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During the lunch R.U. Sirius interviewed Kevin Kelly. I am looking forward to listen to that podcast soon. 13.06 Michael Lindsay X-Prize Foundation shows a video on the X Prize Foundation, which funded the prize for private space travel won by Burt Rutan’s SpaceShip One team. The foundation is expanding in new areas and Michael [...]
Liveblogging the Singularity Summit 2007 – Day Two – morning
September 9th, 2007
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I arrived a few minutes late, as I miscalculated my appetite at the breakfast place, which being also popular put our orders in the queue. The keynote by Peter Norvig has already started, and as I entered the Palace of Fine Arts Theater, he was saying “So now back to AGI”, which I assume means [...]
Singularity on the front page
September 7th, 2007
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The ‘San Francisco Chronicle‘ has a front page article dedicated to the Singularity Summit, entitled “When Machines Think“. Is it a good thing when a meme enters the mainstream? Is the meme of Singularity ready for the exposure?
“Born on a blue day” by Daniel Tammet
July 5th, 2007
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I saw a piece of a BBC documentary about a British savant, Daniel Tammet, and was fascinated, since contrary to the character of Rain Man in the film, Danil was able to explain his capabilities, and observe the functioning of his brain. I picked up his book straight away when I saw it and read [...]
We all feel fine – and it shows
June 15th, 2007
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We Feel Fine is an incredible display of the power of the web to transform the way we think about humanity. Emotions are among the most human of characteristics, and being able to see their power dynamically is astonishing. We Feel Fine is a website that analyses blog postings to search for those that contain [...]
Speaking about Second Life on Radio24
March 19th, 2007
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Tonight I will be at Radio24, an Italian talk radio of nationwide coverage, to talk about Second Life at a special two hour episode of the Melog talkshow. The broadcast will be also streamed, and downloadable from the radio’s website. I’ve also set up a skypecast, and a skypechat to go along with it. A [...]
Speaking at the annual meeting of Aegis Media
March 7th, 2007
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I have been invited to speak at the 2007 Annual Meeting of Aegis Media, the media, communications, and market research group. The title of my talk is going to be “A New Life for Marketing in Virtual Worlds – What are you really promoting in Second Life”, and as usual it will be possible to [...]
Transcript of my lecture in Second Life on the Democracy in Virtual Worlds
February 11th, 2007
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Here is the transcript of my inaugural lecture of the Craedo Auditorium in Colonia Nova in Second Life: Welcome to this seminar about “The theory and practice of democracy in virtual worlds”. I want to thank CARE, CRAEDO, and the Confederation of Democratic Simulators for inviting me to give this talk at the inauguration of [...]
