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MIT Personas Project
Spotted via Techcrunch and my always reliable source “xstof”:
It gives you an idea on how the internet sees you. A quite better version of Google your own name.
Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.
Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person – to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.
Have a look here and enter your full name and allow MIT to determine your online profile or the associations they’re able to make based upon your name.
First, this thing starts scanning your information shadow on the internet:
At the end you get:
Doing this live is much more impressive !
This is a very good example of what i meant in earlier posts on your Information Shadow on the internet, and how that is leading to your unique identity “footprint” or DNA. Just start imagining that the colored bar above is your own unique personal spectrum analysis. Just like they do for spectrum analysis of substances or stars.
Identity revisited by Google: WebFinger
Great post on TechCrunch by Michael Siegler. WebFinger from Google.
I have posted many times in my blog about identity and the uniqueness of the information shadow each of us leaves on the internet.
This is exactly what Google plans to do: link your e-mail address to your information shadow.
Today they think (WebFinger Google Code page) think about:
- – public profile data
- – pointer to identity provider (e.g. OpenID server)
- – a public key
- – other services used by that email address (e.g. Flickr, Picasa, Smugmug, Twitter, Facebook, and usernames for each)
- – a URL to an avatar
- – profile data (nickname, full name, etc)
- – whether the email address is also a JID, or explicitly declare that it’s NOT an email, and ONLY a JID, or any combination to disambiguate all the addresses that look like something@somewhere.com
- – or even a public declaration that the email address doesn’t have public metadata, but has a pointer to an endpoint that, provided authentication, will tell you some protected metadata, depending on who you authenticate as.
But to be honest, it could be anything about your information shadow.
Update on Louis Gray Blog: somebody already developed first client.
The whole thing is just starting: http://webfingerclient-dclinton.appspot.com/
Curious what Dave Birch has to say about this on Digital Identity Forum or Kim Cameron on Identity Blog.
Bugs from the screen into your arm
Via Beyond the Beyond:
What’s real and what’s screen ?
What are our boundaries ?
Scary pushing of known boundaries. How will this look in 2030 ? Food for thought for our Think Tank on Long Term Future.
Retail/Bank of the Future (2019)
One of those Microsoft Labs videos. Always well done.
Most of this and more you can touch and feel in Living Tomorrow, from Belgium and much better (as the chocolates) than the video 😉
You can visit the Store of Tomorrow and also the Bank of the Future. Store is sponsored by Delhaize, Bank by ING.
What a co-incidence ! At our SWIFT Innotribe @ Sibos on 14-17 Sep 2009 in Hong-Kong, we’ll have a Face-to-Face debate on “The Future of Banking”.
Check out www.innotribe.com : that’s what i am doing for a living.
The hype of Augmented Reality
Good overview of latest Augmented Reality examples on ReadWriteWeb.
The example i “like” most is the Augmented Identity one.
I am re-iterating the thinking we did before on this blog on how any on-line person is starting to have its own “information shadow” that is unique. No more need for identity “cards” or alike.
In that context, I recently met Dave Birch, Director at Consult Hyperion, who is 1) a very cool presenter on identity and digital money and 2) has two pretty interesting blogs on these subjects:
– His identity blog is here
– His money blog is here
Not much to add to the ReadWriteWeb article.
Have a deep dive in Gartner’s 2009 Hype Circle for Emerging Technologies.
See also that Human Augmentation now appears at the very start of the Technology Triggers.
Virtual Worlds
Thanks to my job, i get in contact with interesting people. As preparation for the Innovation track at Sibos (called www.innotribe.com), our team is focusing on 3 themes:
- Cloud
- Crowd
- Mash-ups
In total we’ll have more than 40 speakers during one week, combined with speedlabs, debates, and R&D pitches. And during the last day, Guy Kawasaki will be part of our VC debate and Buyers Panel.
Detailed agenda available here.
As you have probably noticed, in my private life and endeavors (such as the Think Tank for Long Term Future), i am blurring the lines between real and virtual, between flesh & bone human and robots.
As a matter of fact, i am also blurring the lines between job and private here, and i don’t see anything wrong with it.
What about virtual reality in a business context ?
Welcome to project Wonderland from Sun Microsystems. They will do during Innotribe @ Sibos a demo on the Virtual Bank Branch Office. In the meantime , have a look at below 2 videos, that once again proof how fast our real and virtual worlds are merging.
First listen to the project manager, Nicole Yankelovich. What’s really interesting is that the sort of people that work on this are true hybrids: a mix of nerds, psychologists, anthropological and ethnographic R&D…
This video is a hidden job advertisement, so you’re warned 🙂
But this sort of stuff and skills is really were we as a society should put stimuli and scholarships for our net.generation to be ready for 2030. Those who are 20 today will be 40 by then and our next leaders.
Then enjoy to this wonderful Wonderland scenario tour based on the preview of version 0.5 in their labs:
First time i see things like federation of worlds. I already heard about federated identities, federated clouds, federated services, but this ? No, not yet.
Oh yes, you can also restore a world in his previous state.
However, i still find that the user is forced into the developers mind of properties, cells, etc. No way i can explain this to my dad. It’s like the first time you see Windows: only if you get used to it, you start making sense out of it. You adapt to the programmer’s mind.
Think.
Tank.
Thanks to Amir for providing me the links.
Retaining our identities
Thanks to xstof (again ;-), I discovered daily galaxy site.
Two really interesting blog entries related to our Long Term Think Tank ambitions:
The first about robots developing at warp speed.
Hans Moravec, pioneer in mobile robot research and founder of Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. Yes, again that Carnegie Mellon University.
Whilst today, these robots are barely at the lower range of vertebrate complexity, they could catch up with us within a half century."
- 2010: A first generation of broadly-capable "universal robots".
- 2015: Utility robots host programs for several tasks.
- 2020: Universal robots host programs for most simple chores.
- 2030: Robot competence will become comparable to larger mammals.
In the decades following the first universal robots, a second generation with mammallike brainpower and cognitive ability will emerge. They will have a conditioned learning mechanism, and steer among alternative paths in their application programs on the basis of past experience, gradually adapting to their special circumstances. A third generation will think like small primates and maintain physical, cultural and psychological models of their world to mentally rehearse and optimize tasks before physically performing them. A fourth, humanlike, generation will abstract and reason from the world model.
Others believe that it is humans who will evolve into advanced “robots”. Their belief is that with futuristic technologies being developed in multiple fields, human intelligence may eventually be able to “escape its ensnarement in biological tissue” and be able to move freely across boundaries that can’t support flesh and blood—while still retaining our identities
Many more video material from Carnegie here.
One is about identities, privacy and social security numbers. I am sure my friends from the Belgian eID project will have a sort of déja-vu when watching the following video:
But in essence, it’s all about the changing nature our own real and perceived identity in a digital world. I should drop the word “digital”, as young people see this as “old-mans-wording”. They not talk about a “digital” camera. It’s just a camera. It’s our “world”.
The other article is about Project Blue Brain.
A bit scary is the statement: ""We cannot keep on doing animal experiments forever," That is Mr. Markram during this month’s TED Global Conference at Oxford, England.
… a simulation that recreates the activity of a human brain may produce ethical concerns. Technically a computer that recreates a rat brain would raise similar issues but, as you’re about to see, these guys don’t have any sympathy for rats.
And not that innocent at all:
With the ability to simulate the effects of rewiring, drugs or external electric fields at an individual neuron level we can investigate enhancements (such as new senses, new cognitive modes or neuroelectric interfaces) without all the inconvenient "human rights violations" and "Crimes against humanity" such research normally entails. We could improve our own minds – and since we’ll have just invented a silicon model operating at computer speeds in a bulletproof shell, we’ll have to.
Again, this is one of the key purposes of our Think Tank: what if all this (technological evolutionary exponential explosion) happens, what are the consequences for our value kit for the future ? For our personal and corporate values, for our ethical context, for the way we want to be human ?
And also, how do we prepare the future generation of leaders for this radically different world ?
By coincidence, one of the links on the home page of Carnegie Mellon University’s Next-Generation Computing faculty points to project Alice 3.0
Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.
(btw, also note that the classrooms are packed with Mac’s not PC’s)
Again, it’s again about “doing things that matter”
Why can we from Europe not set-up this sort of stimulating initiatives for our Net Generation (or Generation Y or Generation M) to prepare the next generation of leaders to be ready for 2030 ?
It’s Lifestyle, stupid !
I have a couple of days off, so we can have some lighter (albeit) subjects.
First enjoy this video:
Then read this article on Singularity Hub site, and dream away with all these great subjects like Longevity, Nanotech, Robotics, Genetics, AI, The Brain…
And then click on the link to disturbingly-real-replicants-from-hanson-robotics, and enjoy scary Einstein robot (Video also below). Man, this is really creeepyyyy !
It’s funny when he says at minute 1:20 “Hello, my name is Albert Einstein, i am a physicist”. Would love to hear a trance or techno mix with this sound sample 😉 Gunbee, xstof, Maurice: want to give it a try ? Could be a big hit !
And then there is Zeno Robokind.
For Robokind, wait till minute 3:40 or so, when he/she ? awakens and starts asking questions of life like “Who am I ?” and “What is my purpose ?”. Or also “save the world from the evil” and “…allow users to explore the world of 2029”.
And “Work with us to realize the dream”: Close to our Think Tank Long Term Future (2030) “Inspire People to Dream”
Enjoy !
Augmented Reality in iPhone 3GS
Thanks to my twine.com subscription to “Technology Trends”, i found this.
You can read the related article here.
In case you doubted that man-machine are blurring more and more everyday.
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