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Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
L'avvenimento siamo noi
Attenzione, perché questo è uno dei limiti che troveremo lungo la strada: credere che non potete farcela, pensare che sia troppo per voi. Marguerite Yourcenar mette in bocca al suo personaggio Zenone una frase molto bella a riguardo: «L’avvenire è gravido di più occasioni di…
Dio odia il Giappone (Douglas Coupland, M. Howatson and Anna Mioni)
In Giappone la storia è morta
andammo a Kobe con dei biglietti gratuiti che Suehiro aveva ricevuto da sua zia. Volevamo capire se il terremoto del gennaio 1995 aveva lasciato delle tracce, ma non trovammo molto, e credo che per una volta volessi davvero vedere qualcosa che rispecchiasse fisicamente e in…
Tu sei la nuova norma
. «Erano il miracolo giapponese del Dopoguerra in carne e ossa. Persino voi due contribuite alla loro normalità.» Io dissi: «Quindi io sono normale?». Sentirlo dire mi diede un certo piacere, poi però provai subito disgusto per quel mio stesso piacere. «A dire il vero sì, sei…
How Books Will Become Machines
The future of books in the 1930s
The future of books in the 1930s. This is how Paul Oltet in the 1930s was de- scribing the future reading desktop ‘The worktable does not hold any book. In- stead, there is a screen and a telephone. All the books are far away, in a huge building (...)’ cited in (Levie 2006).
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina)
Robotics failed its 1950s predictions
“In stark contrast to the largely unanticipated explosion of computers into the mainstream, the entire endeavour of robotics has failed rather completely to live up to the predictions of the 1950s." Hans Moravec Most people know what robots are and could perhaps even name a…
AI and the Lamarckian evolution of our species
By engineering our own offspring, many have proposed that Artificial Intelligence can lead to the Lamarckian evolution of our species. In contrast to Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, Lamarck proposed that evolution allows characteristics acquired over our…
Robot: The Future of Flesh and Machines (reference)
•Rodney Brooks, Robot: The Future of Flesh and Machines (London: Penguin, 2002).
James Lovelock Reflects On Gaia's Legacy : Nature News & Comment
Safety of nuclear energy
Will nuclear energy be part of the future, despite the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan? The business with Fukushima is a joke. Well, it’s not a joke, it is very serious — how could we have been misled by anything like that? Twenty-six thousand people were killed by the…
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
L'istante presente è il cuore del mondo
Non si costruisce l’avvenire sognando il futuro, ma concentrando il desiderio e la volonta’ sull’istante presente. Non c’e’ altra via. L’istante presente e’ la fonte di tutte le cose, il cuore del mondo. Dugpa Rimpoce
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Foresight and the autobiographical self
As well as hindsight, foresight is a characteristic part of autobiographical selves. We can plan ahead with incomparably more sophistication than even the most cognitively advanced primates. Chimpanzees can at best anticipate only a few steps ahead;…
Wedding vows bind future selves
Agency – the individual’s capacity to act – can perhaps explain some of the unity of self over time that a standard bundle view makes problematic. Take a long-term commitment like marriage. On a simple bundle view, wedding vows make no sense: I cannot bind my future self if…
Human nature is not set in stone
These dystopias are readily imaginable only because at some level it is obvious that human nature need not be set in stone, and that there is no reason in principle why creatures like ourselves might not become radically different.
Greenfield's speculations on changing identity
Greenfield has received a lot of flak from colleagues for her self-confessed speculative musings on how the very nature of human identity might change.
Different connections, different kinds of self
Where Greenfield gets a little more speculative is when she imagines the variations in types of selves which might emerge if different kinds of connections become dominant.
The future is Nobody's
Greenfield’s worry is that the future is Nobody’s.
The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
Why good plans fail startups
Why are startups failing so badly everywhere we look? The first problem is the allure of a good plan, a solid strategy, and thorough market research. In earlier eras, these things were indicators of likely success. The overwhelming temptation is to apply them to startups too…
The Psychology Behind Information Dashboards
How dashboards create a sense of control
Most information dashboards use a three-pronged strategy to establish a sense of control: Giving you a clear understanding of things to help establish a feeling of certainty Giving you the resources to predict and plan for the future Helping you complete critical tasks in time…
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
Dewey and going green
John Dewey supported parents at a time when the United States was transitioning from an agricultural to an industrial age. Had someone mentioned “going green” to Dewey, he would have thought we were referencing learning activities for children about color. But as we ponder his…
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
Five kinds of identity criteria
So far, we have identified the following classification of identity criteria: style, socio-political system, technological capabilities, strata, and cultural influence. This list will be refined and extended in the near future.
Villa Metaphora (Andrea De Carlo)
Tra stanchezza del presente e incertezza del futuro
Così adesso eccoli qua a rimbalzare sul mare color cobalto, nel vento carico di salsedine e nella luce abbagliante, presi come sono tra stanchezza del presente e incertezza sul futuro.