The World Before the Web: The Machine That Changed the World is the longest, most comprehensive documentary about the history of computing ever produced, but since its release in 1992, it’s become virtually extinct. Out of print and never released online, the only remaining copies are VHS tapes floating around school libraries etc (…). Andy Baio digitized all of them and offers them now here: The Machine That Changed the World: The World at Your Fingertips - Waxy.org
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Notes, news and interesting blog posts about our future (social) life. Topics: Social web, 3D Online Virtual Worlds and psychology.
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Gaby K. Benkwitz
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All about Metaverse, AI and Augmented Reality in Spectrum's Singularity Special Report
IEEE Spectrum has a fantastic special edition on the Singularity just released in June 2008. For all readers who are into deep future, Metaverse, Multiverse, AI and Augmented Reality. Excellent artcicles, one by Vernor Vinge, famous award-winning author (recently: Rainbows End, must read)
“ The best answer to the question, “Will computers ever be as smart as humans?” is probably “Yes, but only briefly
IEEE Spectrum: Signs of the Singularity
Genealogy of Influence viewer
The Genealogy of Influence is an interactive visualization of influence links between historic figures. The Freebase data has been added in 2007 and now includes >1000 people and >2100 connections.
