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 ...
The migration of our lives into the Cloud has accelerated lately, and it is not at all to the detriment of our physical experiences. We need simplicity, in order to face a complex world, and certainly to me this world appears to getting really complex. The unified access to what ...
A few days ago I've become a vegan. Vegans are those who do not eat meat like vegetarians, and also eschew animal products, like milk, cheese, eggs. When I tell people they laugh. I laugh as well, since I am a jovial person. But I am pretty serious.
Here are five ...
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My friend Roo is going to moderate a panel today at the Virtual Worlds 2008 conference in New York on 'Evolution of Games and Social Networks', with people from Sony, Google, and Millions of Us on, and he said "What would you like me to ask them?".
Now you ...
Creative Commons is a framework for easily labeling your creations with licenses that grant automatically rights which are broader than the ones under the traditional 'All rights reserved' copyright model. It doesn't mean that you are giving away or giving up your copyright, but that who wants to use your ...
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"
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 ...
Mixed reality enters the time axis, as I am holding a lecture at the California School of International Management while being physically there, after having held a seminar remotely, which apparently they liked!
This time we are going to talk about "A New Metaphor For The Digital Divide". The lecture will ...
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 ...
