Blog – Page 28 – David Orban

The Singularity University launches to prepare for humanity’s grand challenges

February 3, 2009 / Technology

With help from Google, and NASA, the Singularity University is being unveiled today. Founded by Ray Kurzweil, and Peter Diamandis, the objective of the Singularity University is that of preparing humanity to best face its challenges, using the tools that the accelerating technological change makes possible. These tools don’t emerge spontaneously from the background noise […]

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“2009: a year of panic” say Bruce, and Bruno

January 31, 2009 / General

Bruce Sterling and Bruno Argento are at it again, this time from the pages of SEED magazine, with an article entitled “2009 Will Be a Year of Panic“, spreading their peculiar mix of breathless future, whose well worn form is tinted with skepticism and where the Utopian views thread together with a reality where the

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To A Bright Future!

December 30, 2008 / General

I am an optimist. It is a choice, since from the point of view of an objective analysis there is nothing to be optimistic about in the Universe. What you love, what you strive to achieve is going die, end, crumble, and likely be forgotten soon after, without anybody to remember why it was even

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Speaking at the Parliament about Internet technologies

December 4, 2008 / Policymaking, Talk, Technology

Tomorrow I will be speaking at the Parliament in Rome about Internet technologies, starting from the Obama victory, and how it as able to knit together a series of tools with very effective results. At La Sala Delle Colonne of the Chamber Of Deputies, there will be an open session, with a conversation between Marco

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A piece of an iPhone as a gift… :)

December 2, 2008 / General

Have you been wondering what present to give me for coming festivities? I want to help you: an iPhone 3G! Well, not an entire iPhone really. That would either be too expensive, or if more than one person decided that, yes, actually they wanted to give me an iPhone as a gift, then I’d end

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How To Find Good Images For Presentations

November 30, 2008 / General

photo by dottavi Have you been stuck sometime to try and spice up your presentations with good images to make them more appealing? You don’t have to resort to the lame basic clip arts that came with your presentation program. These are so common, that their value, the interest that they generate in your audience

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Singularity Summit 08

October 24, 2008 / Technology

Tomorrow in San Jose, under the tagline “Opportunity, Risk, Leadership”, the 2008 Singularity Summit will explore the state of AGI research, and implementation, and discuss the visions of the leading thinkers of the field of accelerating technological change, and its impact on society. The Summit is not going to be streamed live, but the videos

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Bruce Sterling’s Italian twin brother Bruno Argento

October 18, 2008 / General

Science fiction writers always knew that they shaped reality. It was only reality’s fault if it was unable to give at any given point substance to their dreams. Playing catchup, reality was recently able to dispel some of the feeling of betrayed nostalgia that many of us had for the despicable lack of interplanetary travel,

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SHiFT puts Portugal’s startup scene in touch with the World

October 17, 2008 / Energy, Talk

I was speaking this week at SHiFT08 in Lisbon. This conference has been put together by a group of volunteers led by Pedro Custodio, with passion, joy, and a lot of creativity. For smaller, and relatively isolated markets like Portugal, these are excellent, and very important opportunities to make sure that their startup culture is

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Third day at Picnic08

September 26, 2008 / General

Here is the liveblog from the third day at Picnic in Amsterdam: Since I am also speaking, it is likely that I will only be able to post snippets here and there…

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