What's After the Real Time Web?
In typical Web-industry style we’re all focused minutely on the leading trend-of-the-year, the real-time Web. But in this obsession we have become a bit myopic. The real-time Web, or what some of us...
View ArticleThe Global Brain is About to Wake Up
The emerging realtime Web is not only going to speed up the Web and our lives, it is going to bring about a kind of awakening of our collective Global Brain. It’s going to change how many things happen...
View ArticleThe Digital Generation Gap
We exist in a epoch of great technological change. Within the space of just a few generations we have gone from horse drawn carriages to exploring the outer reaches of our solar system, from building...
View ArticleWeb 3.0 Documentary by Kate Ray – I'm interviewed
Kate Ray has done a terrific job illustrating and explaining Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web in her new documentary. She interviews, Tim Berners-Lee, Clay Shirky, me, and many others. If you’re interested...
View ArticleMy Father and Me. A Memoir. For Mayer Spivack (1936 – 2011)
My father, Mayer Spivack, passed away on February 12, 2011, in the Kaplan Family House, a beautiful hospice outside of Boston. He passed away, at the young age of 74, after a difficult year and a half...
View ArticleMy Best Interview: About Global Brain, Consciousness and AI
I was recently interviewed by Stephen Ibaraki and Alex Lin (CEO of ChinaValue) in what turned out to be the most interesting, far-reaching, and multi-disciplinary (and long) interview I’ve ever given....
View ArticleBottlenose has Launched!
Today, after almost two years of work in stealth, I am proud to announce the launch of Bottlenose. While I have co-founded and serve on the boards of several other ventures (The Daily Dot, Live Matrix,...
View ArticleIs the Universe a Computer? New Evidence Emerges.
I haven’t posted in a while, but this is blog-worthy material. I’ve recently become familiar with the thinking of University of Maryland physicist, James Gates Jr. Dr. Gates is working on a branch of...
View ArticleConsciousness is Not a Computation
In the previous article in this series, Is The Universe a Computer? New Evidence Emerges I wrote about some new evidence that appears to suggest that the universe may be like a computer, or least that...
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The Message is the Medium – Attention is Shifting from the Web to the Stream
Shift Happens A major shift has taken place on the Web. Web pages and Web search are no longer the center of online activity and attention. Instead, the new center of attention is messaging and...
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Drowning in the Stream — New Challenges for a New Web
This is Part II of a three-part series of articles on how the Stream is changing the Web. In Part I of this series, The Message is the Medium, I wrote about some of the shifts that are taking place as...
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Keeping Up With the Stream — New Problems and Solutions
This is Part III of a series of articles on the new era of the Stream, a new phase of the Web. In Part I, The Message is the Medium, I explored the shift in focus on the Web from documents to messages....
View ArticleA New Approach to Artificial Intelligence: Non-Computational AI
I was recently contacted by a computer scientist, Sergey Bulanov, who has been working quietly for 20 years on a new approach to artificial intelligence. It’s a pretty interesting and novel approach,...
View ArticleHow Bottlenose Could Improve the Media and Enable Smarter Collective...
How Bottlenose Could Improve the Media and Enable Smarter Collective Intelligence This article is part 4 in a series of articles about the Bottlenose Public Beta launch. Bottlenose – The Now Engine –...
View ArticleBottlenose Announces Free Live Visualization of Global Social Trends
Bottlenose has just launched something very very cool: A free version of it’s live visualization of trends in the Twitter firehose. Check it out at http://sonar.bottlenose.com and get your own embed...
View ArticleCan Humans Fall in Love With Bots?
I was quoted in this New Yorker article about whether relationships between humans and bots are real, along with some other AI experts. Can bots experience love? Read it and find out.
View ArticleMy Thoughts on the Future of Artificial Intelligence (Live Panel Discussion)
I had the honor of participating in a panel on the future of AI with a group of industry luminaries, led by Kevin Kelly of WIRED Magazine. Watch the discussion here.
View ArticleAI, BI, and the Necessity of Automating the Analyst
It’s Time to Automate the Analyst I have been speaking about the need for “automating the analyst” for several years. This need is prompted not only by the data deluge — the Cambrian explosion of data...
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Magical, My New Startup Studio in LA, Comes Out of Stealth
Today we began to reveal a little more of what we’ve been working on in stealth mode, since last December. It’s a new science and technology startup studio, based in Los Angeles, called...
View ArticleWhat Did Blade Runner Get Wrong?
I’m quoted in this article in TheStreet.com on what predictions Blade Runner got wrong. https://www.thestreet.com/story/14331182/2/blade-runner-future-technology.html In the place of artificial...
View ArticleArch Mission Foundation Announces Our Payload On SpaceX Falcon Heavy
Arch Mission Foundation Announces Our Payload On SpaceX Falcon Heavy I am thrilled to announce the launch of the first Arch™ payload, on board the Falcon Heavy Test Launch, with SpaceX. Read the full...
View ArticleAnnouncing our Mission to Land the Wikipedia on the Moon!
Today my foundation, The Arch Mission Foundation, announced our mission to land the Wikipedia (and other datasets) on the Moon in 2020 with Astrobotic. This will create a permanent backup of human...
View ArticleAn Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression
Early this year a software engineer, Shaun Gilchrist, reached out to me after reading a blog post of mine from many years ago, about my informal search for hidden patterns in the prime numbers. The...
View ArticleHear my Epic Interview about AI & Philosophy with Gigaom
Episode 53: A Conversation with Nova Spivack …
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Announcing Fuzionaire Diagnostics: a True Breakthrough in Chemistry, Applied...
Today, we are launching Fuzionaire Diagnostics. Technological progress often comes from incremental improvements to existing technologies, rather than major evolutionary leaps. But occasionally there...
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What’s Your Moonshot? One Man’s Quest for a Billion Year Archive Stored in...
My work with the Arch Mission Foundation to build a backup of planet Earth was recently featured in Newsweek. …
View ArticleThe Keeper of the Book: My Childhood Dream of the Future
When I was eight years old, I had a very unusual dream in which I saw many lifetimes of my future. In this dream I saw a very clear picture of what the world would go through for perhaps a century or...
View ArticleProposal for a Consciousness Test
Summary A proposed experimental design to test whether consciousness of a future event improves the ability of humans and/or computers to predict that event. If we find that this is true, it implies...
View ArticleGroup Minds are Happening
GROUP MINDS The rise of generative AI and system like ChatGPT is going to enable a new type of collective intelligence that I have been writing about for almost 30 years. I call them “group minds”....
View ArticleAnnouncing the Lunar Library II
On November 9, 2023 we announced the Lunar Library II … flying to the Moon on December 24 … A permanent backup of humanity’s knowledge and history, including the Wikipedia, Rosetta Project, Project...
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