... Bio inspired Artificial Intelligence and Bayesian Networks.

In the past few months I met researchers from Rome's CNR, Stanford and EPFL (Lausanne). They are great researchers, all involved in this Bio-Inspired quest.

I like what I am reading, I like brainstorming about it and the idea of applying these techniques to the Net/Web is stimulating ...

Today I received a book I ordered from Amazon. Principles of neural science is a 1,400+ pages book.

The book is heavy, so heavy that it is almost impossible to carry it in my backpack; I have no idea how many trees have been cut to print it, and how much energy has been used to ship it, but the point is: if a device based on e-ink technology allowed me to read decently on A4 format, I would be more than willing to download a PDF and store many of these "books" in the device.

Reading about physics, biology, nanotechnology and AI is very refreshing. After 5 years spent concentrating on community building, blogs, IM and the WEB in general, I am taking my time to understand the big picture. So many things have changed in 5 years, and so many different fields are coming together. I feel there are opportunities ahead for those who understand the evolution of all these technologies.