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Is the Internet making us more intelligent or more stupid?

16 June 2010 - 1:20pm — ocrampal

Steven Pinker argues that the Internet is actually making us more intelligent. We are just scared of the future, as we have always been in the past, when technology tranforms our lifes:

From geeks to the masses, from culture to economics and politics. Internet is changing everything.

3 March 2010 - 3:40pm — ocrampal

Internet and technology in general are changing just about everything we can think of. What gets hit first by this transformation?

This article about politics is one of the first of its kind that I have read so far. It describes a pretty simple idea to change US politics by abolishing the Senate and replacing it with a Reddit style platform that would allow all citizens to vote on propositions.

Exponential times, Net/Web and innovation

11 October 2009 - 12:41pm — ocrampal

I was invited to give a talk at Bristol Meyer Squibb for a Marketing Seminar in Paris. The idea was to give a sense of the change happening on the Net/Web, how it affects corporations and what can be done about it. 

It was an opportunity to formalize some of my thoughts; if you're interested, the presentation is attached. It is a high level overview, nothing specific. The objective was to explain how fast technology is changing everything.

Housing and technology

7 April 2008 - 11:12am — ocrampal

How is development of communication technologies going to affect house prices?

When "real" virtual reality is available, and when it is almost indistinguishable from physical reality (except for touch and smell), it will make it irrelevant to live in cities like New York or San Francisco. Those cities will not command a price premium in housing any more and house prices will go down, that's one view ...

Instead, the author of this article on the New York Times thinks that the price premium will actually increase, because people still want to stick together, and more so now than before.

Evolution of education and the future of Universities

28 March 2008 - 4:32pm — ocrampal

This is the kind of post I was going to write, if I had time and the writing skills of this guy. In fact I had already started writing it, using a top-down approach, whereas the post I am linking uses a bottom up approach.

Yes, big opportunity ...

7 November 2007 - 7:21pm — ocrampal

Completely agree with this: "This means that AdWords ads shown in search results drive Google’s earnings, but Google searches access less than 0.02% of the world’s information. Imagine what the other 99.98% is worth.

Quality click: a shift in the advertising market

31 October 2007 - 12:01pm — ocrampal

Here is the opportunity: how do you eliminate 50% of fraudulent clicks that you pay when you buy a campaign on Google? It seems like also Andre is talking about it too, here and here.

Well, to put things in perspective, 50% seems a lot, but it is not much compared to more than 50% which is lost on TV ads, and who knows how much which is lost on traditional banner ads sold on cpm (cost per thousand banner displayed).

Interviewed by Blognation

19 July 2007 - 7:17pm — ocrampal

Amanda Lorenzani interviewed me for Blognation, a new site similar to Techcrunch but focused on European start-ups.

Europe needs sites like Blognation, otherwise European start-ups, even if they offer an interesting product or service, would not have the same spot light as Silicon Valley start-ups.

Agree 100%

22 May 2007 - 1:57pm — ocrampal

Smells like bubble and it is not fun anymore.

This is why I am more and more interested in Microbiology and Artificial Intelligence and I am bored of Web 2.0 (as a word and as a state of mind).

And what about Web 2.0 in Italy?

15 May 2007 - 10:27am — ocrampal

This seems to be the situation in Germany. I would say that the situation in Italy is not much brighter ...

BTW: web 2.0 has no real meaning; it is only useful to describe the new Web Based business in general

Jeremy joins Wikia

2 May 2007 - 5:18pm — ocrampal

I met Jeremy when he was on the Board of the Jabber Software foundation with me in 2001. Given Jeremy's background and Wales' background, they might really come up with an Open Source / Open Protocol service that could rival the de facto monopoly of todays search engines.

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