Lots of food for thought in this Edge edition. In particular Stewart Brand on how technology should address our environmental challenges: We are now in an era called the Anthropocene, an era in which humans are running way too much of the atmosphere and everything else badly. We’re in this situation where we don’t have […]
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I just watched a very scary video on TED.com. Jesse Schell talks about the prospect of games invading every aspect of our lives, turning humans into meaty versions of The Sims. I am very skeptical about some of his forecasts. It sounds ludicrous to have computerized cereal boxes—even if the technology becomes sufficiently cheap—if only […]
This post will be an exercise in futurology. I predict that in the next few decades we will see some interesting debates about the legal rights of internet users over the content they create and their personal information, and their right to scrutiny and decision power over how their flux of information is handled by […]
I was gladly surprised to see the new WhiteHouse.gov website introduced by the Barack Obama administration, and especially so with the new White House Blog. The new web front for the United States Government has been received with praise [ "Change Comes To The Internets" said the Daily News] but also with cautious skepticism. One […]
The recent events between Israel and Palestine just reinforce my belief that what is wrong with the world are two things: nationalism and religion. I highly recommend this talk, where Richard Dawkins talks extensively about the second topic, but I want to comment on the first one. We can give some simple evolutionary explanations for […]
