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
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
I have been thinking about this for years and now it seems that the technology and the business model are ready for prime time. Not that I wanted to start a company out of it, because the business is too much capital intensive for how I like to work. The
I was interviewed while attending the conference: How and Why of Promoting Entrepreneurship Abroad. The conference was sponsored by the Hoover Institution and the Kauffman Foundation. Richard Boly organized the event at Stanford. The interview is about Italy.
I am attending the First Workshop on Scientific Knowledge Creation, Dissemination and Evaluation. The discussion is about the evolution of the scientific paper in the 21st century. There is a pretty diverse group of people attending, from accademia (computer scientists, philosophers, etc), from the industry (mainly scientific publishers), from the