April 2009
5 posts
The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more...
– Inevitable Minds
The CB2 baby robot has begun to grow up, and can now learn like a toddler. The...
– Japan’s “Child Robot” Learns to Walk
the same logic apply to allocating attention to the various stimuli that bombard...
– Action-selection and Attention-allocation: a common problem and a common solution?
Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence damaged his right eye in a childhood accident and...
– Bionic eye cam to shine a light on society
in un era in cui il web 2.0 invade profondamente le nostre vite.. parimenti lo...
– “Io sono i miei dati, voglio fare testamento digitale”
March 2009
7 posts
As science and technology advance further, it will become increasingly possible...
– Human Enhancement
The experience of growing up online will profoundly shape the workplace...
– the Facebook Generation
In a world without technology, we would not be living, and we would not be...
– The World Without Technology
Researchers from the University of York and the University of Warwick, both UK,...
– Ultimate virtual reality will trigger five senses
She showed volunteers a computerised image of a right arm on a 3D display while...
– The virtual body
Walter Goldschmidt, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology from the University of...
– Evolution of altruism: kin selection or affect hunger? « Neuroanthropology
In his book Natural Born Cyborgs, Andy Clark argues that since the dawn of...
– Prehistory Prefigured Internet Use
February 2009
17 posts
This can once again be the case for our larger intellectual property system, but...
– Moving from Property towards Policy: Intellectual Property as Cultural Policy
If you meet new friends, some of your older friends that you don’t see very much...
– Social networking beyond the Dunbar number of 150
But perhaps additional friends are not free. Primatologists call at least some...
– The size of social networks
Il divario tra i bambini e ragazzi di 3-17 anni - spiegano i ricercatori...
– l’uso del computer a scuola riduce il divario sociale
I social network offrono un’esperienza svuotata di ogni coerenza narrativa e di...
– Repubblica.it - Blog - Scene Digitali
It’s actually not only the future of the university that is in play. How we...
– Lev Gonick: How Technology Will Reshape Academe After the Economic Crisis
Now surgeons Craig Senders and Travis Tollefson of the University of California,...
– Robotic faces… for humans
Cosa succede nell’affermazione del sè quando il sè si scopre così mutevole e...
– la memoria e l’attesa
Hard cases make bad laws
– La nuova legge truffa
Being young means that different layers are constantly confused in conversation:...
– IA Growing Roots - Concerning the Journal of IA
«Si tratta del primo sistema che decodifica naturalmente i pensieri spontanei -...
– Lo scanner che «legge» la mente
Cosa succede infatti quando anche mamma e papà decidono di entrare nella rete di...
– Corso di Facebook per genitori
Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that...
– MIT Students Turn Internet Into a Sixth Human Sense
Google e la Nasa hanno deciso di investire per la creazione di...
– Google e la Nasa creano un’università per gestire computer superiori all’uomo
E’ l’ascesa delle cyberborghesia, di quella classe media digitale che usa senza...
– Facebook e l’ascesa della cyberborghesia 1
These breakthroughs could bring on an age of directed reproduction and evolution...
– Evolution by Intelligent Design
Con la seconda via si apre un fase di tensione creativa, che altre...
– Quel processo a Google è importante per noi
January 2009
7 posts
Of course on the side of “people connectionism” the information is...
– Two Strands of Connectionsim
These are just some of the things technology wants. We don’t always have...
– What Technology Wants
the threat facing children online is no worse than it is in the real world.
– Don’t Blame the Internet
my son doesn’t want to be an astronaut any longer. I’ve asked him...
– Albert-Laszlo Barabasi + James Fowler
In fact the most important change at work in our world right now is “the...
– Technology, or the Evolution of Evolution
Internet, è certo, ha rivoluzionato il loro modo di apprendere: ma di quale...
– Internet, sms e troppa tv un muro tra padri e figli
Our minds already extend out into the environment, and the changes we make to...
– Humans are “natural-born cyborgs”