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Web Meets World: Participatory Culture and Sustainable Living

25. November 2008

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In a conversation with Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing) at Web 2.0 Summit 2008, Al Gore suggested that only the aggregate bandwidth of the internet could supply us with the kind of emotional intelligence we need to respond with appropriate urgency to the challenges of our times, for example, the CO2 targets […]

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Tim O’Reilly: “Instrumenting the World”

2. November 2008

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Tim O’Reilly has outlined some of the world’s big problems in his talks, and urged technologists to “work on stuff that matters.” I was one of O’Reilly’s listeners at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC (see my post here). But, I found out at the Head Conference in London, recently, that O’Reilly is doing more […]

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Astrophysics in Virtual Worlds: Implementing N-Body Simulations in OpenSim

19. July 2008

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Junichiro Makino, University of Tokyo, leads the way into the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) in Tokyo. Piet Hut, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton, is right behind with the Genkii team. Jun Makino has offered the use of a server at the observatory to set up an OpenSim environment. History is about to be […]

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