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On Feb 15 the voting for the ‘Grand Challenges For Engineering in the next 100 years‘ is going to start. This is the contribution I wrote for the discussion there: Atomic scale assembly, and programmable matter… A better understanding of quantum mechanics, and the software capable of exploiting it will give us unparalleled power over […]
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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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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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I have been invited to join the Scientific Advisory Board of the Lifeboat Foundation. The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit nongovernmental organization dedicated to encouraging scientific advancements while helping humanity survive existential risks and possible misuse of increasingly powerful technologies, including genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics/AI, as we move towards a technological singularity. It will
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The Local Government Study Group exists to formulate tools for local governance in Second Life, and seek to persuade Linden Lab to adopt them. At this meeting on May 6 hosted by me on Vulcano, we will be discussing the second draft proposal for local governance tools. Additional tool proposals and comments on the existing
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My friend Tommaso has been thinking aloud on his blog, about quarks, the Higgs boson, and the origin of gravity, experimental results, and their interpretations. And as he kept thinking, and thinking, and thinking, and, well… thinking, other people noticed, and among them the UK magazine ‘New Scientist‘ which I picked up at Victoria Station
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For the last couple of days, one of the top articles, with more then a hundred of others, in the health section of Google News was from The Times Online talking about the proficency of the search engine with diagnosing medical conditions. None of the articles, or even the blog posts picking up on this
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Marvin Minsky and David Orban Bergamoscienza is a wonderful event that for two weeks engulfs the cultural life of Bergamo, and is getting better and better organized each year. The opening conference this year was by Marvin Minsky, one of the original founders of the field of Artificial Intelligence. I started my professional life twenty
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The solutions of the equations of General Relativity are hard, and it is not surprising that only special cases have been analysed in detail. It is more surprising however that the professional cosmologists have chosed to treat an entire Galaxy with just the Newtonian mechanics, and when the results didn’t conform to the measurements, they
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When Stephen Wolfram’s long awaited book A New Kind Of Science came out, one of the challenges of reviewers, and readers alike was finding good examples of applications for the approach described. The feeling of power, and importance that the author wanted to project was often lost on those who couldn’t follow the mathematics in
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