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  • SOA for Human Brains ?

    SOA stands for Service Oriented Architecture. Services can be assembled together to form news (composed) services. Most of the time this terminology is used in the back-end. The same way, but then more on the user interface side (the front-end), we talk about mash-ups, which is in essence a service oriented componentization of the user-interface,… Read more

  • Massive manias, booms and busts.

    Remarkable video from Peter Thiel speaking at the Singularity Summit two years ago about the need for Singularity in todays Financial Markets. Peter Andreas Thiel (born 1967) is an American entrepreneur, hedge fund manager, libertarian and venture capitalist. With Max Levchin, Thiel co-founded PayPal and was its CEO. He currently serves as president of Clarium… Read more

  • Human Evolution Future

    Found a really interesting post today on Accelerating Future blog of Michael Anissimov. He refers to the technology optimism of Kevin Kelly (KK). If you’re not familiar with KK, you should and definitely to his blog. Kevin Kelly’s Panglossian optimism is exactly the type criticized in Nick Bostrom’s paper “The Future of Human Evolution”. The… Read more

  • Computer better than human ? Starts with Hand

    Check this out. With only 3 finger, it can: Throw: Kim Clijsters has a new sparring partner ! Dribble Pen spinning Knotting a rope Taking a rice-grain with a pincet Regrasping. Amazing ! And all this with tactile control in milliseconds. Imagine 2 hands of 5 fingers, or 10 hands of 7 fingers for the… Read more

  • 3 weeks from SIBOS 2009

    More info on http://www.swift.com/sibos2009/ Our innovation team proudly presents: Idea generation at http://www.innotribe.com Read more

  • Bank are dead. Long live the banks !

    Interesting article in Belgian dutch newspaper De Morgen this week-end by Paul De Grauwe, Professor Economics at the University of Leuven. Free translation of the key paragraph: What is clear now, is that banks start to take advantage of the more positive economic climate. They do this in different ways. First of all they almost… Read more