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  • Fasten your Seatbelts for a trip to AlloSphere

      Stunning data visualization. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, an entirely new way to see and interpret scientific data, in full color and surround sound inside a massive metal sphere. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear the music Read more

  • Publishing Revisited

    I guess you are all familiar with mainstream on-line offerings such as Hotmail, Gmail, Skydrive, GoogleDocs, WordPress, YouTube, etc, etc. I guess you are also familiar with more advanced on-line end-user software such as Slideshare, iStockphoto and Vimeo. These apps Read more

  • Pizzled: 1 Brain = 1 Dollar

    There is a great presentation by Nova Spivack on the future of the web, the emergence of collective intelligence and the global brain. Nova Spivack has been in space, has a great blog/news site, and has recently created Twine.com. I Read more

  • Clouds and Boom in the Zoo: the unbearable lightness of IT.

    There was spring in the air yesterday afternoon. So what do you do ? You make a nice drive in your convertible car and you head for the Antwerp Zoo. (I don’t have a convertible, but I thought this would Read more

  • Tom Cruise Wall

    Who has the real Tom Cruise touch-screen wall of Minority Report ? Recently i had the chance to see ànd touch ànd play-around with Microsoft’s Surface Table. That was fun. Made me think of the video wall in Minority Report Read more

  • Singularity: Web² and augmented First Life

    I am a big fan of Ray Kurzweil. Too make a long story short, he is predicting that man & machine will blend together around 2030, and that is not so far away ! It’s about augmented human beings. And Read more