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I just read an excellent article called The Dark Side of Digital Backchannels in Shared Physical Spaces. I have nothing to really add to the analysis, except to say that these are circles I wish I traveled in. I should move to Silicon Valley and become a freelance philosopher. The article also references the Online Disinhibition [...] From a great interview with Ray Ozzie from Microsoft waxing philosophical about the Google Wave era technologies. RAY OZZIE: I think the answer is yes, it’s important and there are a lot of very interesting things. I think we don’t really know yet which ones are going to be sustainable killer app type usages versus [...] There are some pretty major holes in this presentation, and it has an unusually Eurocentric focus, but its pretty and slick and worth showing. thx kyle Resident colleague Ben links to the following article: The Philosophical Significance of Twitter: Consciousness Outfolding In Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings: How the Universe Makes Life, an exquisitely written and astonishingly insightful book, Richard Grossinger writes about ‘infoldedeness’, stating that “the universe is comprehensible only as a thing that has been folded many times upon itself.” Reversing [...] at least it’s an ethos This viddie is a rather boring demonstration of Wolfram Alpha. It does basically what it has claimed to be able to do: it can process data in a variety of domains, answer queries in natural language that pertain to the data, and present answers and other relevant or useful information in [...] thx Jason except you have to understand that in these transitory times, “Google” is basically a stand-in for “future internet technologies”. Google the corporation has been pretty careful about heeding the cries of the entertainment industry. The Internet won’t be so gentle. via Gizmodo via Lally I’ve upgraded my wordpress install and reskinned the website, and as you can see I need to make some new title bars to give the blog the character and style it deserves. The theme I am using (Atahualpa) is just incredible, and it will let me cycle through title images. I want to generate a [...] Cory Doctorow gave the best speech hands down at the Singularity Summit a few years ago. But he isn’t really talking about the singularity; its pretty clear he just sees it as a beacon that attracts the similarly technologically inclined, perhaps as a means to form an interest group that takes digital rights seriously. [...] Mistrial by iPhone: Juries’ Web Research Upends Trials (NYT) Last week, a juror in a big federal drug trial in Florida admitted to the judge that he had been doing research on the case on the Internet, directly violating the judge’s instructions and centuries of legal rules. But when the judge questioned the rest of the [...] |
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