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Interoperability, morality and biocompatibility in the Internet of Things

June 5, 2015 / General, Interview, Technology

In the episode aired on June 5 of 2024 of Radio 24 I’ve had a conversation with the show’s conductor Enrico Pagliarini about interoperability, morality and biocompatibility of the Internet of Things. The following is the translation of the edited transcript of the interview which was originally recorded in Italian. Enrico Pagliarini: This week we talk […]

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Wishes for the year 2013: “Going with the Flow”

December 31, 2012 / General

When everything goes well (does it ever?), it is easy to feel good, even smug about being right, smart, and on top of things. Claiming to be in the flow, without necessarily having achieved it. Just like Hollywood movies about the future that tend to be overly dark in depicting the worst possible scenarios still

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Live blogging from the iLabs Singularity Summit

March 5, 2011 / General

iLabs Singularity Summit

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The Singularity Arrives in Europe, Streaming Live

March 4, 2011 / General

Originally published in KuzweilAI News On Saturday, March 5, for the first time, a Singularity-related event will be held in Europe — at the National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan, Italy. Produced by Milan-based research institute iLabs(Wikipedia page here), the one-day, free iLabs Singularity Summit (not affiliated with the Singularity Institute’s Singularity Summit) will feature speeches

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Wishes for the year 2010: “Serendipity”

December 25, 2009 / General

Photo by eschipul That you may spend in the year that comes and the ones after it those ten thousand hours that according to Malcolm Gladwell it takes to become truly expert in the field of your passion, even if new, even if it has nothing to do with your work now. Prepared to recognize

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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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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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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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