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I am at the NASA Ames Research Center, where I spent a week at Singularity University. It was a great opportunity to attend lectures, go on trips with the students, interact with the rest of the Advisors, and the staff. I have kept twittering my impressions, brief quotes from the lectures, and it was a […]
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In many countries there is planned legislation imposing special limits on the freedom of expression online. Italy’s Alfano law equates all blogs to professional journalism, and requires the publishing of “corrections” notified by interested parties, under the penalty of heavy fines. This law, if passed without any modification, will in practice silence free speech on
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There’s less then a week to go for Frontiers Of Interaction V, this time not in Turin, but in Rome. on June 8, next monday. If you are around, you must make sure to come! (Registration required) As recently said, quite appropriately by Massimo Sgrelli, “Finally in Italy there won’t be the need to
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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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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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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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Here is the live blog of the second day of the Virtual Worlds Expo in Los Angeles, starting at 9AM PST. (Please note that the live blog is via a plugin from Coveritlive, and you won’t be getting the text of it if you receive my posts via email. You have to watch it over
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I am packing to leave for the Virtual Worlds Conference & Expo, where kindly invited by my friend Roo, I will be speaking on the Augmented Reality panel in the Future Track. For the panel I will express two concepts: The realities are augmented by our knowledge, and we traverse them via our agent identities.
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Heh, I don’t know if that title makes sense, so let me unpack it a little… I will be going to the iSummit conference in Sapporo, Japan, where I’ve been invited to coordinate the Second Life version of the event. We will be streaming the keynotes of the speakers physically present in Sapporo. Jimmy Wales,
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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 leap. If not to 1.0,
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