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 - ...
At ETech last week in San Diego I had the privilege to sit down with Larry Lessig after his keynote, and chat about his endorsement of Barack Obama, why he thinks he will be a great President, and about the best use of technology to enhance active participation in the ...
The changes necessary to keep our societies aligned with the needs of a desirable future can only be accomplished by those who belong to that future.
Barack Obama is a choice for a desirable future.
It also helps that, according to the Washington Post's political compass survey, my views are strongly aligned ...
The printed edition of the 'Corriere della Sera' has an article today about the unintended side effects of the site filtering system that Vodafone put in place recently to supposedly protect minors from adult materials while browsing the web using the Vodafone Live! application suite.
As reported in Italian by Stefano, ...
I spent this weekend in Sebastopol, where I took part in the gathering of 30 open government advocates to develop a set of principles of open government data. The meeting was designed to develop a more robust understanding of why open government data is essential to democracy.
The Internet is the ...
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 ...
Yesterday it was great talking at the Web2.0 Expo in Berlin. Right after Tim O'Reilly's keynote, in the session called Ignite, in the large conference room packed with the over 2000 delegates, I spoke about the Metasocial Web:
Follow the link to the Metasocial Web video on YouTube if you don't ...
Well, that was fast. I thought of the Metasocial Web a few days ago, and looks like I will be delivering a speech about it at Web2.0 Ignite in Berlin tomorrow.
A lot of what the Metasocial Web should be is in flux, naturally, so it will be good to get ...
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The rule of law is at the basis of human societies. What kind of rule, law, and society, is of course the important detail that defines the opportunities for a healthy, wealthy, and happy community which can express the full potential of its members. The new medium of ...
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 ...
