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Very cool presentation on the impact of the web on the world. Web Wide World revisited so to speak. Enjoy.
09 Ci Civilization

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Mandelbrot 3D Fractals

Enjoy at Real 3D Mandelbulb.

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“The web is transforming society”

“Web Squared: how the web transforms the world”

“Web Wide World” transforming “World Wide Web”

Several very interesting publications and postings over the last couple of weeks, all confirming that something very profound is happening with our core systems, our core values, and how the collective intelligence of the web [...]

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One of the very best presentations at last month’s Singularity Summit. And it comes from a European
Lots of inspirarational slides and ideas, and – as a bonus – Jürgen is quite funny as well when presenting.

Jürgen Schmidhuber at Singularity Summit 2009 – Compression Progress: The Algorithmic Principle Behind Curiosity and Creativity from Michael [...]

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Via Nova Spivacks Twitter account: “See this video of flight in U2 to 70,000 feet. I went to nearly 90,000 in 1999. This gives a good feel for it. http://bit.ly/14WdGJ”

Space flights will be quite ordinary in 2025. That’s a little more than 15 years from now. I may still live then. [...]

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I am just back from the Singularity Summit that took place in NY during the week-end of 3-4 Oct 2009.

I will make a separate report on the rest of the event, but i was completely blown away by the 30 min speech by Peter Thiel and following panel discussion with Venture Capitalists.

Peter Thiel [...]

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The Singularity Summit is coming on 3-4 Oct 2009 in NYC. See the impressive list of speakers here.
One of the speakers is Ben Goertzel, who will speak about “Pathways to Beneficial Artificial General Intelligence: Virtual Pets, Robot Children, Artificial Bioscientists, and Beyond”.

When talking about Robot Children, i would not be surprised if he used [...]

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We all know that userid’s and passwords are not good enough anymore.
That’s why more and more companies move to two-factor authentication, using those little contact-less “calculators” that generate one-time password, or contact-ful solutions like smartcards, USB-tokens, etc or other concepts such as OpenID or Microsoft’s CardSpace (i still prefer the old name “InfoCard”).
Only [...]

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Sometimes you hit a site and you’re blown away. Here is one like that:
www.cluetrain.com
It’s like finding your home.
This thing exists for 10 years now.
And nobody hinted me to hit. Never heard about it. It feels like having missed some cultural and existential dimension in my life.

I feel so inspired by this. It [...]

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SOA stands for Service Oriented Architecture. Services can be assembled together to form news (composed) services. Most of the time this terminology is used in the back-end. The same way, but then more on the user interface side (the front-end), we talk about mash-ups, which is in essence a service oriented componentization of the [...]

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