The January 2010 issue of Wired Italia. has a very nice article by Luca Sofri about Singularity University, and even more in depth about Ray Kurzweil, one of SU’s founders together with Peter Diamandis. Luca came to visit Singularity University at NASA Ames during the inaugural GSP-09 in July 2009, and went back to […]
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We are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the landing on the Moon, and it is a good to keep asking the right questions about the goals of space exploration. Should we try and go back to the Moon? Should we go to Mars instead? Should we try and settle Mars? How quickly can we get
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Here is the video of the presentation I gave at ETech about OpenSpime: and also the slides that were used: | View | Upload your own
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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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One of the games I always play at the start of a new year is an excercise in synesthesia:what color is the coming year? For example to me 2006 was orange, 2005 was yellow, and 2004 was blue. My colors are not necessarily as neat as the basic ones: to me 2000 is bright white
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