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Conversation with Vernor Vinge on the Technological Singularity. Vernor Vinge published the original article at a Nasa conference in 1993 that reintroduced and popularized the concept of Technological Singularity. In this conversation he talks about its perimeters, and the issue of what is called hard take-off.
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Part 2 of the conversation with Vernor Vinge on the Technological Singularity. Vernor Vinge published the original article at a Nasa conference in 1993 that reintroduced and popularized the concept of Technological Singularity. In this conversation he talks about its perimeters, and the issue of what is called hard take-off.
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The Metasocial Web. Are we ready to run countries on the new societal networks? Ignite presentation at the Web2.0 Expo Berlin by David Orban about what comes after Facebook, and the social networks centered around the individual.
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In mirror worlds enriched by sensor data, and aggregated through different time sequences, you can achieve an arbitrary richness of representation. What does this mean to data representation? How will the offerings of virtual worlds evolve to come with zillionics? In this conversation Robert Gehorsam, President of Forterra, and David Orban converse about these and other topics.
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"Are we building our lives, or just feeding the urges of the machine?" this is the question we spend a few minutes talking about after the More Than Zero Festival's panel on Digital Prosperity
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Veodia permette l'utilizzo di audio e video in tempo reale in Second Life, così come dal browser, con estrema semplicità e immediatezza. Estratto da un seminario in Second Life sull'isola di Lipari con l'Università di Milano
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Yahoo! released today a new video conferencing platform called Yahoo! Live. As I was coming to the office I saw the announcement of it on my phone, set down to check it out, announced my experiment on Twitter, and in a minute several people joined me to see how this new service was.
The channel is http://live.yahoo.co m/davidorban. The experiment went very well and here are its results.
The 2008 Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego was a great success. Here are a few opinions on what was cool, and why, by the participants themselves.
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Vernor Vinge, author of Rainbows End, and other award winning novels, as well as the original paper about the Technological Singularity presented at a NASA conference, converses with David Orban of OpenSpime about the future of networked smart sensors, spimes. Their promise, and dangers, as they develop and get widely adopted in society.
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Science fiction author Bruce Sterling coined the term spime, and we sat down with him for a conversation on spimes, the future of technology, and its impact on society.
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Public debate through presentations of scientific information, and the data collected from distributed open sensor networks complements the policy making process. OpenSpime met Al Gore at the launch of Current TV in Italy, and we asked him about these issues.
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A conversation between Ray Kurzweil and David Orban at the World Business Forum in Milan, Italy in October 2007. Covering the investment world in the accelerating change, artificial general intelligence, and more.
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