The urbanized world can achieve very high levels of food productivity using novel techniques of lighting and growing that make a large variety available locally in the cities to all. We live in an urbanized planet. The United Nations estimates that 53% of the worldwide population lives in cities. And this is bound to increase in …
What, why and how you eat is going to change radically in the next decades, based on technologies that originate from the innovative manufacturing processes of 3D printing. The application of the exponential power of 3D printing from manufacturing to food is digitizing and democratizing the access to high quality, dependable culinary experiences turning an …
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The distributed and digital nature of photovoltaic solar energy is going to have profound social and economic effects as its adoption gets wider thanks to exponentially decreasing costs. Our society is strongly shaped by our energy sources. When we only had human or animal muscle power available, our societies were slave based: if I had …
In a fast changing world, technology plays a major role today and will do so in the future, to assure our progress and the development of mankind We adopted one of the first technologies that made humans what they are today about a hundred thousand years ago: we learned how to manage fire, and to …
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More than one hundred thousand years ago we began using fire or, more recently, ten thousand years ago, we began agricultural activities, since then our society has always been influenced profoundly influenced by technology and we have had important dreams of achieving social emancipation, of achieving justice for all. The infrastructures we have not only …
At the Laboratory of Eidomatics of the University of Milan, in cooperation with Eximia, the RFID company, a new interface has been developed for visualizing Second Life environments, and interacting with them. See a video about Real 2nd Life! Real 2nd Life an integrated system composed of a semi-circular screen, of almost 3 meters high, …
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 …
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Next tuesday, Jan 16 at 4PM I am speaking at the Crema Campus of the University of Milan about “Virtual Worlds, and Second Life: towards the Metaverse”. Come to chat, pick up one of the streams going to other campuses, or come back to see the recording once it has been uploaded. powered by performancing …
Marc Canter at Milan University The Web2.0 meme is seeping into local consciousness on a broader level. After talking in the morning to investment bankers–in a rather provocative manner, he tells me–Marc Canter held a talk at the University of Milan about open data, open infrastructure, and his new platform for building social networks, PeopleAggregator
The video from my seminar at the University of Milan is online. (of course the video is in Italian…)
