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Technological Humanism

We are assisting to a brand new kind of humanism: in a period characterized by a continuous “wave” of technological improvements, the oldest idea of person is again ready to be considered as a concrete focal point. Even the most orthodox “tech-fun” can easily understand the importance of putting each natural, direct relation inside a […]

Small Worlds… a Bit Larger

Yesterday I tried to answer a question on LinkedIn about the value we can assign to high level connections (3rd or greater): a quite good question from several point of views.
I think that the main problem of “Small Worlds” theory is brought about the huge amount of information needed in order to get a fast […]

Read-Pile: The Starfish and The Spider

It is certailny a great book, however, in my opinion, there’s still an important difference between two main kinds of decentralized organizations that should be defined in a more accurate way: structures like Wikipedia have a clear, well defined and global goal (for example, creating a unique and complete world-wide encyclopedia), while almost any P2P […]

Web 2.0: A “Sociological” Point of View

A Web 2.0 “Sociological” point of view is probably the most interesting analysis, mainly because it can be really considered as the very network revolution. Web 1.0 could rely only on a kind of link: the one obtained from <a …> tags; its purpose was (and still it is) to allow the connection between […]

Time for Emergence

When Sir Tim Berners-Lee had his stroke of genius and invented the World Wide Web, he didn’t surely think about its extraordinaty present developments, just like a father normally hopes his children’s wellbeing, but he can’t seldom figure out every particular detail of their future. Such a behaviour strikes everybody as a strange kind of […]

From Computer to Business Operating Systems

Many years ago Arnold Zuboff wrote a novel (republished into The Mind’s I) which “main character” was a biological brain; but not a normal, compact one:
it had been split more and more times, from two big parts since billions of smaller cells. Of course every single neuron was connected to other ones just like in […]

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