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photo: Global Reaction Technology will thrive once we humans don’t slow it down. Not only literally in speed, but in phase-space hobbling its capacity to explore a much vaster range of solutions than the ones found when our needs are taken into consideration. Even the technology that is apparently human centric, like transportation, can evolve […]
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I am tweaking the blog templates, trying to give the three languages (English, Italian, and Hungarian) a coherent view, as well as streamlining the home page, and giving the various additional pieces of information their own page, instead of cluttering the sidebars. Also I took the opportunity, and installed the latest version of SnapShots, which
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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 attended the speech given by Pete Worden at the International Space Development Conference, which was also held in Second Life on NASA’s Colab island My question: Second Life is an inherently Global environment, is NASA taking this into due consideration, as it could draw on the input and expertise of a worldwide participatory audience?
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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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Alerted by New World Notes, I attended the lecture by Kevin Warwick on Uvvy Island this afternoon, antitled “Upgrading Humans, Why Not?”, where he presented his experiences as a cyborg. At the Q&A sessions I asked him two questions, which he was kind enough to answer. “The UK has shown to be able and find
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I am beta testing the new Second Life interface with voice support. It is always interesting to see how a new element is being integrated within an existing interface in order to make sure that the overall architecture remains coherent. As you can see from the picture that I capturedwithin the beta test grid, there
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RitaliaCamp: il 31 marzo io ci sarò. E tu? Ritalia, to rethink Italia.it, has been born from an online chat among friends. In a month it has become something interesting, stimulating, and groundbreaking. Today we are more than 200, with online collaboration tools, daily virtual meetings, and a persistend and active contact. On 31st march
RitaliaCamp: 31st march I will be there. And you? Read More »
Tonight I will be at Radio24, an Italian talk radio of nationwide coverage, to talk about Second Life at a special two hour episode of the Melog talkshow. The broadcast will be also streamed, and downloadable from the radio’s website. I’ve also set up a skypecast, and a skypechat to go along with it. A
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Freebase merges the bottom up approach of the social web, with the hierarchies of directories, and the orderliness of traditional relational databases to help ‘organize the world’s knowledge’. (If that sounds familiar, it is because that is what Google is blindly about, with algorithms that are striving to see with barely formed eyes under heavy
Is Freebase from Metaweb going to be what Cyc could have become? Shall the two merge? Read More »
