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  • Robonomics

    Really great post by Jamais Caisco on FastCompany blog. Very much in line with my last posts on massive manias, booms and busts. I have not added much here: just mixing some different sources. But some folks told me i am not that bad in mashing-up stuff 😉 Think you can’t be replaced by a… Read more

  • Innotribe starting blocks

    Cross-posted from: https://www.swiftcommunity.net/blogs/blogDetail.cfm?id=1547 Posting by my boss Kosta Peric: I’m just walking out of the Innovation team corner here at SWIFT. Only one topic on everybody’s mind – Innotribe@Sibos – and the atmosphere is the same as just before a big race at an athletic event: I guess the best description is "electric"… The event… Read more

  • 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