By Francesco D’Alessio
Let me start by saying I have been a fan of virtual reality since the day I started reading Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson. This book introduced the concept of the The Metaverse:
The Metaverse is a collective virtual…
A recent Study released by the New York Times stated that 87% of people who claimed they were not easily fooled ended up being the easiest to fool in a simple…
Press Note 3 of 2016 that was issued earlier this week was greeted with the kind of knee-jerk enthusiasm…
“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.” — Gloria Steinem
In my first year, I was approached by Ammaar Reshi, a second year student at the time who wanted to see some of the UK’s…
Dear Friend,
I’m addicted. I wake up, and without thinking, I use. Throughout the day, when I’m out in public, or with a friend, I use. At breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I can’t help it. I try. Before bed, as if it is going…
We’ve probably all seen, and are fans of, the Harry Potter movies. I saw most of them in theaters (although not all on…
I’m in the midst of a personal experiment revolving around my hardware/software setup. I’m trying an approach where I use all Apple Hardware with as heavy a use of Google services and software as possible. You can read more about…
Brands and businesses could potentially enter a cycle of…
If the world of reality-altering technology resembles the wild west, then the two valiant cowboys have finally met.
My fingers hurt! I studied Computer Science so I must have spent over 500 hours each year typing, dragging, and clicking all over my keyboard and mouse pad.
The other day , a 25 year old friend of mine seemed to be having a quarter life crisis. He…
“To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon…. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.” — Dr. Lee De Forest, famous engineer…
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The New York Times confirms what I have been writing in these weekly emails: the…
There is a stark difference between mankind and technology. Getting the technology right is easy, simply push out an update!
Humans are much harder. Much much harder. The human component is what many programmers forget about.
Humanity is urbanized.
The modern city is gravitating towards a hyper-urbanized human settlement. Over the course of time the urban space has become increasingly denser populated and disruptive. To understand urban residents’ behavior development encourages us to dive…
Marx has a dichotomous attitude to machines. It can be seen in his attitude to Luddism.
“They direct their attacks not against the bourgeois conditions of production, but against the instruments of production themselves; they destroy imported wares…
Many people assume that if you are in IT, you are a “technologist”, I disagree.
I have been diving into a lot of technology the past year or so: Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, Nginx, AWS, OpenStack, Python (again), Vagrant, etc… nerdgasms all. Playing and…
addressing the new employees of Digital Garage — by video SF to Japan, April 1 2016
I have a part time job as Community Manager of DG717, the San Francisco office of a Japanese internet investment firm and incubator. I was offered the chance to offer to encouraging words to the new crop of mostly fresh college grad employees…
Hackathons are career fairs on crack. They’re a place you can go to learn things immediately quickly, try and fail in a safe space. You don’t need to know anything…
What made you feel the need to respond this way?
I am very aware that my race and position in life set me up for a career in tech. I had a computer in my house at age 4 and access to the tools needed to satisfy my interest in technology.
This visual can be interpreted in so many different ways. Your take on this picture will be very telling of your take on technology in general.
If we want to move forward, we need to stop fearing at our minds are being rewired.
Of course they are being rewired… improved, and by our own choices
Such Rewiring tales place everyday. It not technology. It us. We call it GROWTH.
Sto provando da vari giorni l’iPad Pro (quello più grande) e sto cercando di capire se può realmente sostituire un notebook come il MacBook che sto usando ora.
Pros:
Oh what a way we have come! If you need any more indication of how much we have transitioned to a…
Enhance your Productivity with Cloud Computing Online Training
As all we know that cloud computing widely utilized by both large and small organizations, it…
As Marx sets out in Theories of Surplus Value, there are essentially four potential causes of crises arising from commodity production and exchange. The first is that there is a contradiction at the heart of the commodity itself. It is that the commodity is simultaneously a…
Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) have attracted a lot of potential users who are not only fascinated by the technology, but also desire to augment their senses and/or escape the real world. Many people think that there is…
Mike and John on Annotation Terror and Annoying Video Alerts By MIKE ISAAC and JOHN HERRMAN Some discussion of an app that can post criticism of one’s work and of Facebook’s new live video push and how users are pushing back. Published: April 2, 2016 at 06:00PM via NYT Technology…
In describing the effects of machines in relation to unemployment, the dichotomous attitude of Marx once more manifests itself. He wants to oppose the bourgeois apologists who can see no downside to the introduction of machines, for workers, and who argued, for example…
The 3D printer, a phenomenon that is still growing strongly. You might think, Those the 3D printer still exists? 3D printing is certainly disappeared for a while. However, this does not mean that scientists are still very busy…
To return to the point made in the beginning, in relation to Paul Mason’s new book, it seems to me to make the same mistake that Marx himself made, but for which he could be forgiven considering the time he was writing. Marx, in Theories of Surplus Value I, in discussing…
Google has launched Cardboard Plastic, a lightweight version of VR headset, which Google claims to be the world’s first ‘actual’ reality headset that goes beyond conventional ‘virtual’ reality.
What started as a mere ‘buzz’ in the business world has today grown up to a complete business industry. Cloud computing has revolutionized the world of online business and has given a new hope and alternative to online companies for keeping their…
3D printing matures will promote the development of industries. Because of its low cost, efficient features, has now applied to the surgery.
Truer words may not have ever been spoken
Capitalism and the Machine revolutionI love analysing and disambiguating Business and Technology and how the activities involved in the two processes contribute to the way man leaves and evolves.So i’ve been reading a lot of capitalism content of late and i’ve been trying to analyse capitalism and Technology and how they affect the world now and…
