I’m moderating a panel at the upcoming DEMOfall 2008 conference this year on Where the Web is Going. I’ve assembled an all-star cast of panelists, including: Howard Bloom, Author, The Evolution of…

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I have been thinking about the situation in the Middle East and also the rise of oil prices, peak oil, and the problem of a world economy based on energy scarcity rather than abundance. There is, I…

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This is a five minute video in which I was asked to make some predictions for the next decade about the Semantic Web, search and artificial intelligence. It was done at the NextWeb conference and was…

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This is a brief post with one purpose: to clarify the meaning of the term “semantic.” It has suddenly become chic to label every new app as somehow “semantic” but what does this mean really? Are all…

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I highly recommend this new book on Collective Intelligence. It features chapters by a Who’s Who of thinkers on Collective Intelligence, including a chapter by me about “Harnessing the Collective…

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UPDATE: I posted some further notes on the fact that Twine is in beta, and what “beta” actually means and why we are in beta here. Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote a critical review of Twine today that…

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There has been a lot of hype about artificial intelligence over the years. And recently it seems there has been a resurgence in interest in this topic in the media. But artificial intelligence scares…

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This article sheds some light on the history of attempts to find a resolution between the Dalai Lama and the Chinese government. I found it to be quite educational. There have in fact been numerous…

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