tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133243082021-12-02T01:11:36.084+02:003D essays (unblog) about Space, Time and the MachinesMuli Koppelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789719199324048970noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324308.post-46530299805849081532011-01-06T12:46:00.008+02:002011-01-06T18:47:03.384+02:00

I've just finished watching the 2nd & final season of Dollhouse. All in all, it is a great show that succeeds in telling an important story about Identity, an intriguing dystopia, a Matrix variation (it's a positive connotation).In the Matrix, humans are nothing but a network of shells, "living" a computer-generated reality. Only few evolve beyond this embryonic stage and become "aware" of their

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Like that old lady that had a view of the universe as "Turtles all the way down", I find myself repeatedly condensing information-marketplaces into that reservoir known as Twitter. "It's Twitter all the way down", I say, "especially in the Real-Time Enterprise".More than 3 years ago, I wrote a post about Twitter and its essential role in the mission-critical, real-time Enterprise. In that post,

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Wired Magazine: Promoting the FathersNow, Wired claims that we should stop blogging; that we've been wasting our time with a futile medium; that blogs have created an inflation of useless information nobody's interested in; that the "real" blogs are actually professional magazines, or in other words - ran by professionals, not laymen (not you, not me); that Facebook, Twitter and Flickr should be

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A trend, or rather a necessity, exists to tunnel all tech discussions into that magnetic field called Twitter. But strange it seems only to those considering Twitter as yet-another-stupid-service-for-the-crowds, which is essentially true – on the surface. Yet beneath the shallow appearance, there's another Twitter: a prototype for, or a component of a globally distributed management

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Twitter(1): "Anything goes" into Twitter->Go to 'tweet scan' and search for what u want->Subscribe to RSS on that filter/results 10:35 AM June 02, 2008 from webTwitter(2): No [longer] need to pick Feeds from the Blogoshpere. Each "Blogject" to log itself directly into Twitter, and then see Twitter(1) 10:37 AM June 02, 2008 from web Twitter(3): The problem: two kinds of info for the same Topic:

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Links are deadIt took me a while to grasp the essence of what this creation called Twitter had turned into – certainly not a service, more likely the virtual consciousness of the entire mankind.Who'd have thought that in 3 years or so, the RSS Information River would be taken over by "Twitter" - a Galactic Information Pot that has fundamentally changed the infrastructure of producing and

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Jean BaudrillardSeveral months ago, I read an essay by David Brin, the Sci-Fi author, titled The Matrix: Tomorrow May Be Different, its main argument being that Neo is far from being the only One: millions of us, maintains Brin, have experienced this eerie sensation about the [hidden] System, and have been patiently waiting ever since for their computer to ask them to follow the white

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If you want a clear-cut demonstration of what's Crowdsourcing and where it can lead us all, then I suggest that you watch Human Computation by Luis von Ahn, a hosted session by Google TechTalks. You will learn [from the 6th minute on] that people of Earth are spending & wasting 9 billion human-processing-hours on playing Solitaire, an outrageously unproductive activity, and that if tricked into

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Online Crowds are the elementary components, the infrastructure of New Flatland's business processes. Without the Crowds being online the world remains pretty much round; the short tail remains dominant; marketing has to go through traditional, cumbersome, not-fast-enough channels. It is, therefore, in the deepest interest of all global business2.0 companies that we all become Digital Sobjects,

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(This is a sequel to The Birth of a Crowds Nation)The Crowds are threatening traditional businesses. That's interesting, but not as much as the fact that the crowds exist - online!The Memes, for their part, are extremely happy with this new situation: humans are coming to them now; the hassle of expanding around the globe in order to locate more human containers is no longer needed. I suspect

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In The Wisdom of Crowds, one of those formula books that populate our Zeitgeist, Surowiecki suggests that agents Mulder and Scully were actually right: the truth is, indeed, out there. Moreover, there's a way, although long and cumbersome, to get to that truth, using You! and You! and You! and You! and…You! In other words, the truth is out there, and the out there is no other than - the

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Not long ago I have published a post about the soul of the Internet, where I depicted the Web as a living organism. Now that the digital sphere contains not only objects but also sObjects, the living organism is becoming less of a metaphor and more of a reality. And so it occurred to me that every newborn in this virtual world, i.e. every new web page, could well have some sort of genetic

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“All media work us over completely”, said Marshall McLuhan, meaning that whenever a new media, a new medium, takes over, the function human= f(medium) returns a different value. Currently, f(medium) defines human as a SObject, a limbo creature, half here in the physical, half there in the virtual.In the previous Digital SObjects posts I have described an old spec, the memex, interpreted by some

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In The Memex Reloaded, I have discussed a certain spec (The Memex) and mentioned several of its implementations (such as MyLifeBits) that bring into existence a new kind of human – a Sobject – which is a real-time digi-replication/reflection/representation of a real human. Whatever we sense, whatever we do, whatever we produce, as well as whatever we think is being digi-replicated into a virtual

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What will happen when our digitization process will come to an absolute perfection, with our virtual representation capable of providing a real-time information about what we see, hear, feel, think, read, write, say, do, receive, give, and take; our blood pressure, heart beat, actually any biometric info, plus our exact geo location, the simulation of our movements and anything else you may think

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"The past is never dead. It's not even past.", FaulknerWhen my daughter asked me how Second Life has been created in the first place, I instinctively had those neurons of Philip Rosedale, Linden Lab and Startup firing up, a sketch of a story being already under construction. But then some uninvited images burst into the scene, depicting some strange submarines, black-and-white spaceships,

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My thesis, as presented herewith, is that the web2.0 revolution has failed; that we’re currently living, not the revolution, but the counter-revolution; that unlike what we've been constantly told, no essential power has been transmitted to the people, but rather old forms of power have reshaped and refurbished themselves.Back in 2005, when I first placed my legs on the itinerary2.0 I had an

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While speaking to one of my friendly customers I had this image of Google and Y.T. We were talking about FSTR and the acceleration of just about everything, about Real-Time and about how many are left behind, incapable of keeping up with this ever increasing speed. As my friendly customer put it, only few can drive a 300 km/h racing car. It’s true for both people and businesses.Google’s

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On Wednesday morning, while at Fnac, a small book caught my attention. I picked it up. It said "Yves Klein, L'aventure monochrome". On the cover, a suited man was walking straight ahead, his eyes staring at me. Behind the man there was a white and empty background. His walking triggered a vague and undefined association, as if I knew him from somewhere. I went through the first pages – it looked

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I remember my fascination while reading Barabasi's Linked: The New Science of Networks and learning that the physical architecture of the Internet (scale-free networks) is similar to that of an organic system. I bring this up because with every passing day the distinctions between the man and the machine, the organic and the mechanic, are getting blurred, to the point that some are asking when

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"A fan edit is a version of a film modified by a viewer, that removes, reorders, or adds material in order to create a new interpretation of the film. This includes the removal of scenes or dialog, replacement of audio and/or visual elements, and adding material from sources such as deleted scenes or even other films", from Fanedited.org

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Choosing Your Goggles Matz (Ruby), Larry Wall (Perl) , Guido van Rossum (Python) , DHH (Rails)While listening to Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby, I realized that the process of selecting a programming language has a brand new and highly important step, more important even than downloading the tutorials and experiencing with some sporadic scripting.

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Quote:CIO Today, October 24th, 2006:"In its second service-oriented architecture blitz of the year, IBM has detailed a range of products and services aimed at helping companies (mk) extend their service-oriented architecture deployments.Six months ago, IBM released 11 new SOA products, 20 product upgrades and eight new service offerings. This time around, IBM delivered four new products, 23

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Desktop Regions, by Dibau Naum H, is a thematic flickr set that caught my attention a while ago, but it's only recently that I figured out what does it mean for me. It's a human-centric, multi-layered work that captures three different worlds and two competing desires. I think of it as a Web2.0 Schizophrenia.The following is my personal interpretation of this interesting work.Iceland Region

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Around this time last year, when blog posts were still legitimate citizens of Google's Great Master Index, I happened to read a bunch of articles that were discussing the frustration of innocent users who have fallen prey to a horrible mischief, namely 'Blog noise'. Although they were googling for "facts", the returned result sets contained an awful lot of non factual, personal opinions from the

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