The natural cycle of media coverage from hype to bashing is starting to be complete around Second Life, to the relief of many. At the end of this cycle it is much easier to concentrate on the values added by the platform, and the more interesting or exclusive applications that are possible through its use. […]
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“The Trouble With Physics” by Lee Smolin For hundreds of years science progressed, and physics was one of the main sciences following the method that having experiments and theories going hand in hand, could offer new and exciting interpretations for the worlds phenomena. This mechanism, giving the foundations of our agricultural, technological, and medical progress,
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Photo by ‘nailbender’ 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 those online worlds can
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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
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Thanks to the cool new Mogulus video platform, you can watch the live stream of the launch of the Apple iPhone in New York! Go to http://iphonelaunch.tv! What I wonder is what will happen to the embedded video once the launch is over… Live video doesn’t make too much sense when the event is gone.
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photo: Global Reaction Technology will thrive once we humans don’t slow it down. Not only literally in speed, but in phase-space hobbling its capacity to explore a much vaster range of solutions than the ones found when our needs are taken into consideration. Even the technology that is apparently human centric, like transportation, can evolve
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I am tweaking the blog templates, trying to give the three languages (English, Italian, and Hungarian) a coherent view, as well as streamlining the home page, and giving the various additional pieces of information their own page, instead of cluttering the sidebars. Also I took the opportunity, and installed the latest version of SnapShots, which
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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
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I have been using (and selling) Dragon NaturallySpeaking for the last ten years, and love it. It has become exceptionally accurate and responsive in its various revisions, especially now, that it can swallow all the hardware power we can throw at it. However, current dictation software is only useful if you can’t use the computer
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Family Tree Originally uploaded by david.orban This is a partial view of my family tree, as it is growing on http://geni.com, which enables family members to freely collaborate on adding further and further details. Started less then a month ago, my tree now includes almost 300 people, spanning 5 generations, and covering three continents.
