Working on Geneosophy, which deals with comprehension and enables the formalization and verification of concepts such as life and intelligence.
More than one type of re-balancing needed. One of the recurring themes of the current economic crisis is the idea of re-balancing the global economy. But where are the imbalances? Most would think about the West vs. East, or developed vs. developing countries. It is certainly true that those imbalances
I spent the Christmas Holidays in Naples with my parents. A few days after the traditional family meetings were over, I organized a lunch with friends (and friends of friends) with backgrounds in Engineering, Computer Science and Complex Systems. Some of them are teaching in Italy and the US, others
Do you ever have the feeling that you can see technology changing around you – and you see it accelerating? You see the impact on society of this or that new gadget, of a new framework or new model before others can see it and everything is just SO interesting, SO
Once upon a time there were few outlets for information. The world was explained to us by a handful of journalists who mostly got the inspiration from each other (shall we say copy?). We had a limited menu of views of the world, a leftist, a liberal and a right-wing.
The debate about how technology is changing education is gaining strength. I just spent a few weeks in NYC and now I am back to Milan. NYC was a part-time vacation, let's call it this way. It was mostly about education, so I had some discussions about it
Back in 1994, Sir James Goldsmith had a clear vision of the implications of globalization on advanced economies. Now, 16 years later, his predictions have been confirmed: the middle class in the advanced economies has seen a constant lowering of its living standards, and without change in direction, it will
One of the reasons dropout is high could be the low quality of education one gets at school. To get an idea of how low the quality can be, just watch this documentary from ABC: To be fair, the quality of education could be a reason why one is tempted
To understand it, you need to be part of it ... I promise this will be today's last post, otherwise I will not be able to read an interesting paper I received from one of the participants at the AGI conference in Lugano. But I felt compelled to write
E tu, Apple? Apple has finally decided to use patents to slow down the competition, represented by Android in the current form. The interesting spin to the news is that Apple is not suing Google, which develops Android, but is suing HTC, a handset manufacturer and one of the main
It seems that this Facebook patent covers what we were already doing in 2001/02. I did not have time to go through the details, except reading the Slashdot story, but this patent, the way it is described in the abstract, covers what Splinder (the largest Italian blogging and community
A different take to data organization: let data organize itself (as much as you can). I have been exploring this concept for a while now. Again, this is the right direction, and, as you can see from the video, the most interesting application of the concept is the innovative text
This article about the search for better quality of life out of the Bay Area reminded me of the reason why I tend to move around looking for new places. According to the article, the need for better quality should be balanced against what one really loses leaving a big