If you watch this video from the BBC, you will probably agree that books will never be replaced by electronic readers because: * you can rinse a book after accidentally dropping it in the tub * book pages do not reflect light like e-readers do when reading at night in your bed
I am in Winchester, the AlifeXI conference starts tomorrow. An (indoor!) BBQ will take place in a few minutes. It's raining and I am looking forward to see how an indoor BBQ works ;-) that's England! When I left this morning Milan was hot and mosquitoes
Today I finally had time to comment on this article, which three different people mentioned to me. The article is about how the way we think is being changed by new technology, the Internet and the Web. To make the point, there are a lot of good examples of how
Last Thursday I participated to a round table with President George W. Bush, while he was visiting Rome. Politics was not involved in this, I was invited to talk about 1GN, the not for profit network that we created last year to foster entrepreneurship in Italy. The transcript of my
This article, by Paul Graham, perfectly describes our state of mind when building Splinder into the largest blogging platform in Italy. We focused on users, that was our compass, and we focused on usage growth, not on generating revenues, because that would have killed the project. We kept costs down
While thinking about the emergence of "new rules" from simple rules and the inadequacy of mathematics to model across levels, I never thought about the implication of this line of reasoning beyond science and technology into the realm of philosophy and religion. This is what Stuart A. Kauffman
One of the first things I noticed, when I started reading about Bio-Inspired AI and neuroscience, is the notion that we cannot say that we "really" understand something unless we find a suitable "traditional" mathematical model that approximates it in a way or another. We are
A year ago I sold Tipic Inc., the company that created the largest blogging and community platform in Italy. Now Splinder is handed over and has doubled in users since the sale. I am now free to go after my interests which are, broadly speaking, Bio Inspired Artificial Intelligence and
Here is the opportunity: how do you eliminate 50% of fraudulent clicks that you pay when you buy a campaign on Google? 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
I studied Engineering and graduated with honors, but I must admit that I never liked mathematical analysis, and was never too good at it. I found it as being too abstract and hard to visualize; on the other hand, I loved computer science, it was my second nature, I could
The average age of Italian politicians is one of the highest in the world. Regardless of their background, either on the left or on the right, Italian politicians have been trying to "regulate" the Internet for a while now. Their latest proposal is to oblige any site or
I finally got to NYC at 10:00 pm local time, 6 hours late on a 5 hours flight, not bad! We left San Francisco at 8:00 am, but over Chicago, we started flying in circles, and after a few minutes the captain announced that the FAA was not