Technology
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Uberize the economy and the social fabric
The Emerging Platform Economy is the new way to do business. Legacy business models are asymptotically…
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Chomsky & Hobsbawm or: Homage to Catalonia
Let’s start again with late Tony Judt’s comment about Eric Hobsbawm autobiography, where one can read…
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On mandarins and epistemological fallacies
Reading late Tony Judt’s appraisal of Eric Hobsbawm autobiography, one meets a very interesting remark: Eric…
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Problems with the Objective Function: the Monkey Pawn
Nick Bostrom, in a wonderful Ted Talk (below), muses about the problem of emerging superintelligence within…
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Community life and chipped silicon
“If you open a modern computer case and stare at the mother board, it really appears…
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Artificial Photosynthesis: some social implications of technology
The Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenathen invented the first historic monotheism, according to Freud’s Moses and Monotheismus (1939).…
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A. Burgess: “Clockwork Condition”. A tale on Skinner and Free Will
The real polemic target of Anthony Burgess in The Clockwork Condition (The New Yorker) (here the Italian…
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Engineering initial conditions (some words of thanks)
The human civilization stumbled first upon metric geometry (the Greeks), then it invented projective geometry (Italian…
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Cosmism
It appears to me that a single idea transpires through Isaac Asimov’s “New Guide to Science”,…
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Human and Horses
Human are not horses, says MIT economist Kenneth Rogoff and King Ludd is still dead. But…
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