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”