If you watch drug addictives, you wonder how they could be so stupid to ruin their health in this way. One reason is perhaps that you have never tried it...
Bruce Nussbaum says that creating a new identity becomes more important than creating a new experience in our business culture: "people interract with their...
Jochen Hotmail seems to be using very strict parameters to filter mails. They say reason to reject are the use of "obscene language, graphics, or spam-like...
E.W. Dijkstra writes in EWD611 http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD611.html "My first visit to the USA, in 1963, was the result of an...
The retired computer scientist and science fiction author Verner Vinge has coined the idea of a technological singularity - the idea that technology is...
Philipp Haller and Martin Odersky "Actors that Unify Threads and Events" http://lamp.epfl.ch/~phaller/doc/haller07actorsunify.pdf Peng Li and Steve Zdancewic ...
"What will come next in large-scale computer simulations? [...] the authors usefully raise the alarm about the misuse of poorly understood models and the...
Twenty years after "The Society of Mind", Marvin Minsky recently published his book "The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and...
Did you notice that economic growth today is booming in countries where American popular culture does not dominate, namely India and China, although they...
If we are the product of our thoughts, what happens if we don't think ? "I can't think, therefore I'm not" ? Or did Descartes really mean to say: I sink,...
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side facing down. If you strap buttered toast...
What are your favorite books about the subject at hand (re: CAS) or any other related subjects for that matter? The book that got me interested, which I'm sure...
Well, the india example shows a very efficient self-organizing way in organizing traffic. I think that the main differences between the india and the...
Indeed! Stephan you have guessed it right. In one of the surveys here in India, more than 70% people felt that others were not following traffic rules! So, now...
Sony unveils a virtual world universe for the new PlayStation 3. "PlayStation Home" will offer photo-realistic avatars, private apartments and mini-games....
A few more links about PlayStation Home. Can you google in such a virtual world, too ? Who will control the advertising in these worlds ? GDC: PlayStation 3 -...
The term Complex Adaptive System (CAS) was coind at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI), esp. by W. Brian Arthur, Harold J. Morowitz, Stuart Kauffman, Murray...
Frank T. Vertosick argues in "The Genius within" that intelligence is an emergent property of groups, if it is defined as the collective ability of a group to...
Cool 3D User Interface http://www.screenvader.com/root.html DOODLE - Intuitive and direct drawing in 3D virtual space http://www.squidsoup.org/doodle/...
From Nature: The range of mutations that can drive cancer growth could be much wider than thought. An international research effort called the Cancer Genome...
"I'm not much of a thrill seeker or adventurer. I like libraries, museums and speed bumps. I am, nevertheless, a multicellular organism of reasonably complex...
India has certainly a very old culture which is more peaceful than others (Gandhi, Buddhism, etc.). This may help to rise the illusion that Indians are somehow...
Superfractals is the long-awaited successor to "Fractals Everywhere", in which the power and beauty of Iterated Function Systems were introduced and applied to...
Wired says: "For years, scientists have tried to develop a universal theory of everything. Steven Hawking predicts that such a theory will be discovered in the...
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