Turning your vision into reality is a big leap. Going from zero to one represents a Zenoan step, which is not guaranteed to be possible, in the world of mathematical abstractions or in the world of physical action. So it is a wonderful feeling that OpenSpime is actually making this ...
(Photo by Nasa, uploaded on Flickr by Jurvetson. See a high resolution version too!)
The Phoenix interplanetary exploration vehicle landed on Mars. My name, David Orban, is on it, together with those of the other members* of Planetary Society. This is of course a rather indirect way of being on Mars, ...
Do you want to experiment with spimes, have a first look at the preliminary OpenSpime architecture? Are you a hardware hacker, a maker, a mashup-wizard? Want to play with spimified Arduinos, SunSpots, iPhones, and more?
Than come to Bastard.it for the OpenSpime Drink-Link!
In a relaxed and friendly environment in design-crazed, fashion-full ...
Here is the transcript of my talk at Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon from yesterday, entitled "The New Renaissance". It is fairly long: you can find the full text on Scribd.
[13:04] Sophrosyne Stenvaag:
Hey everybody, welcome - we'll be starting in a few minutes - still lots of people coming in - ...
Tomorrow I will be speaking at Extropia Core at 1PM PST, invited by Sophrosyne Stenvaag for her 'Saturday Salon' conversations. The title of my speech is going to be "The New Renaissance"
You have heard about spimes. They are a new class of objects, originally envisioned by Bruce Sterling, author and Wired columnist, who also invented the term by compressing 'space' and 'time'. Spimes are aware of their environment, they know where they are, and when they are, and keep track of ...
On Feb 15 the voting for the 'Grand Challenges For Engineering in the next 100 years' is going to start. This is the contribution I wrote for the discussion there:
Atomic scale assembly, and programmable matter... A better understanding of quantum mechanics, and the software capable of exploiting it will give ...
I have been invited to hold a lesson at the California School of International Management's course on Strategic Marketing. The lesson will be delivered online, via Skype, and Second Life on the island of Lipari, on Wednesday, February 6, starting 2PM PST (11PM CET). If you would like to attend ...
In the 80s when graphical user interfaces were starting be common, there was a saying among a certain class of programmers: "Real men don't use mice". This represented the feeling of superiority of the command line, and that in turn came not necessarily from something intrinsically inferior in GUIs, but ...
The changes that we observe around us are accelerating, and in a positive feedback loop the successive cycles feed on the previous ones' effects. The source of these changes is technology, as application of the increased knowledge we have of the world around us. As individuals, and as societies we ...
