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Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
La tecnologia non estingue le relazioni
Hai voglia a dire che il telefono avrebbe estinto le relazioni personali. Non è andata così, come tuonavano i soliti catastrofisti retrogradi. È stata detta la stessa cosa per la posta elettronica. L’uomo tende a frequentarsi, ad onta di qualunque remotizzazione della…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Hoping to leave readers more confused
than a year, and thinking about some for at least fifteen, I am more confused now about digital technology and consciousness than when I started writing. Likewise, after you read this book I hope you are more confused about computers, numbers, mathematics, the Internet…
Big Data and the bureaucratization of life
As technology and Big Data advance, they enable the near-total bureaucratization of life—despite the fact that the promise of technology was exactly the opposite, to liberate life from bureaucracy. This dovetails with the trend in job automation: the more bureaucratic a job…
A principle of intellectual integrity
Identify all of the assumptions upon which you base your theoretical commitments, then state these assumptions as clearly as possible, and finally examine these assumptions as critically as possible. For what it’s worth, I am quite ambivalent about this future. I love…
Computer-supported Cooperative Work - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Computer-supported cooperative work
According to Carstensen and Schmidt,[3] CSCW addresses "how collaborative activities and their coordination can be supported by means of computer systems." On the one hand, many authors consider that CSCW and groupware are synonyms. On the other hand, different authors claim…
Dimensions of cooperative work
Over the years, CSCW researchers have identified a number of core dimensions of cooperative work. A non-exhaustive list includes: Awareness: individuals working together need to be able to gain some level of shared knowledge about each other's activities. Articulation work…
Core : Three Access Levels To Underpin Open Access
Open access will facilitate text mining and semantic enrichment
The huge amount of content openly available online offers a lot of opportunities for semantic enrichment realised through text mining, crowdsourcing, etc. Exploiting this content might completely redefine the way research is carried out. We may be standing at the brink of a…
Hamlet On The Holodeck
Bad reaction to technologies
[talking about a scholar who wouldn't accept the new technologies] To my mind it was because she could not separate the activities of research from the particular form they had historically assumed. Her love of books (which I share) momentarily blinded her to the true object of…
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…
Mendeley, Connotea, And The Perils Of Free Services « The Scholarly Kitchen
Decoupling services for authors and readers
These economic realities stand in stark contrast to the notion of the “decoupled journal,” a vision of the future where each aspect of academic publishing is separated out and purchased by the author in an a la carte fashion. So far these services are not providing much…
Refocusing Our Efforts And Investments | Talis Systems | World Leading Expertise In Data On The Web
Semantic web failures
Over the last few years Linked Data has been going from strength to strength. Many more organisations are now seeing the benefits of applying semantic web technologies to help publish, share, and create value from data. As part of the Talis Group, Talis Systems has invested an…
Shivon Zilis - Machine Intelligence
Machine intelligence
I mean “machine intelligence” as a unifying term for what others call machine learning and artificial intelligence. (Some others have used the term before, without quite describing it or understanding how laden this field has been with debates over descriptions.) I would have…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Technology should reduce labor
and from what I have glimpsed through them, I would say that Western technology could be pruned back, and pruned back hard. Most of it strikes me as having gone off at a tangent; it’s not even relevant. Personally, I want an apartment and a job like I want a hole in the head…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Does technical progress get anywhere?
In solving problems, technology creates new problems, and we seem, as in Through the Looking-Glass, to have to keep running faster and faster to stay where we are. The question is then whether technical progress actually “gets anywhere” in the sense of increasing the delight…
The Case For Working Less
Stuart mill: working less thanks to technology
Yet another advocate of shorter work time was John Stuart Mill. He dismissed the “gospel of work” in part because it drew a veil over the real costs of work, including slave work that its advocates sought to defend. Instead, Mill proposed a “gospel of leisure”, arguing that…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Brain plasticity and screen culture
‘Although most neuroscientists are familiar with the concept of what we call plasticity,’ she told me, ‘it might be that most people haven’t really grasped just how malleable their own brains are, how sensitive their brains are to the environment.’ Given that, she is fascinated…
The future is Nobody's
Greenfield’s worry is that the future is Nobody’s.
Screens do not make us passive
The route from here to this dystopia seems very unclear. Greenfield bases her worries on the idea that screen culture is essentially ‘sensational’, that it bombards us with discrete experiences which do not forge the kinds of connections that make us into Someones. She seems to…
The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization
Exaptations
But evolution eventually crossed paths with another possible function: to control the movement of air around the feathered extremities, which allowed a primi-tive form of gliding. This is an example of what paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould called exaptation, by which a trait…
Triple Bypass – What Does The Death Of The Semantic Web Mean For Publishers? - Semantico
NoSQL beats triple stores in practice
Whilst I agree that structure in metadata is important, the complexity of RDF/OWL and triple stores severely limit their utility. The challenges of handling big data have created market opportunities and growth for new breeds of NoSQL data stores. Like triple stores these…