ETech presentation on OpenSpime
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OpenSpime: What do you know about your planet?
You have heard about spimes. They are a new class of objects, originally envisioned by Bruce Sterling, author and Wired columnist, who also invented the term by compressing ‘space’ and ‘time’. Spimes are aware of their environment, they know where they are, and when they are, and keep track of some parameter around them. Sensing,
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Grand challenges for engineering in the next 100 years
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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Dealipedia to add transparency to corporate deal flow
Dealipedia is launching today, aiming to apply wikinomics to the collection and mashing up of information about corporate deals, including financing, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, and even bankruptcies. So many times there are announcements of interesting deals that are shrouded behind a ‘details were kept private’ veil. What Dealipedia is betting on, is that there
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Vodafone’s censorware hits Italian political discourse
The printed edition of the ‘Corriere della Sera‘ has an article today about the unintended side effects of the site filtering system that Vodafone put in place recently to supposedly protect minors from adult materials while browsing the web using the Vodafone Live! application suite. As reported in Italian by Stefano, the author of Quinta’s
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Programmers are crucial to the advancement of any new computing metaphor
In the 80s when graphical user interfaces were starting be common, there was a saying among a certain class of programmers: “Real men don’t use mice”. This represented the feeling of superiority of the command line, and that in turn came not necessarily from something intrinsically inferior in GUIs, but from the objective fact that
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Your balance in times of extreme change – the opinion of the Dalai Lama
The changes that we observe around us are accelerating, and in a positive feedback loop the successive cycles feed on the previous ones’ effects. The source of these changes is technology, as application of the increased knowledge we have of the world around us. As individuals, and as societies we have demonstrated to be very
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Open Government Data Principles
I spent this weekend in Sebastopol, where I took part in the gathering of 30 open government advocates to develop a set of principles of open government data. The meeting was designed to develop a more robust understanding of why open government data is essential to democracy. The Internet is the public space of the
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Live today from CISCO at “Italy Silicon Valley Experience”
I created an experimental video channel using Mogulus, and, connections/firewalls permitting, there will be a live video stream from the “Italy Silicon Valley Experience” (pdf of the program) event today at 6PM CET, on top of live blogging. You can connect to davidorban.com/video right now to check if you can see the video, as I
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Vista conviced me. Now I own a Mac.
Watch the Apple ad on YouTube As a person who has to understand the daily life of non-professional computer users, I always gladly suffer through the pains of those who purchase the right away the new operating systems and the computers based on them as soon as they come out. That is what I also
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