A Bottle That Purifies Enough Water for a Year
This is a really great invention — a hand held water bottle that can purify a year’s worth of water. It removes not only parasites and bacteria, but also viruses. It was just announced recently at a...
View ArticleA Universal Classification of Intelligence
I’ve been thinking lately about whether or not it is possible to formulate a scale of universal cognitive capabilities, such that any intelligent system — whether naturally occurring or synthetic — can...
View ArticleMy Visit to DERI — World's Premier Semantic Web Research Institute
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to visit, and speak at, the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), located in Galway, Ireland. My hosts were Stefan Decker, the director of the lab, and...
View ArticleGreat Collective Intelligence Book; Includes a Chapter I Wrote
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...
View ArticlePeace in the Middle East: Could Alternative Energy Be the Solution?
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...
View ArticleWatch my Panel with Tim Berners-Lee today Live on the Web
Tim Berners-Lee is giving a talk, and then we’re on a panel, live, today, discussing the Semantic Web, Net Neturality and Web Science. Watch the live Webcast and submit your questions to the panel...
View ArticleNew Video: Leading Minds from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft talk about their...
Video from my panel at DEMO Fall ’08 on the Future of the Web is now available. I moderated the panel, and our panelists were: Howard Bloom, Author, The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the...
View ArticleThe World is the Web
I’ve posted a new article in my public twine about how we are moving from the World Wide Web to the Web Wide World. It’s about how the Web is spreading into the physical world, and what this means.
View ArticleWatch My best Talk: The Global Brain is Coming
I’ve posted a link to a video of my best talk — given at the GRID ’08 Conference in Stockholm this summer. It’s about the growth of collective intelligence and the Semantic Web, and the future and role...
View ArticleHow to Build the Global Mind
Kevin Kelly recently wrote another fascinating article about evidence of a global superorganism. It’s another useful contribution to the ongoing evolution of this meme. I tend to agree that we are at...
View ArticleVideo: My Talk on the Evolution of the Global Brain at the Singularity Summit
If you are interested in collective intelligence, consciousness, the global brain and the evolution of artificial intelligence and superhuman intelligence, you may want to see my talk at the 2008...
View ArticleWolfram Alpha is Coming — And It Could be as Important as Google
Notes: - This article last updated on March 11, 2009. - For follow-up, connect with me about this on Twitter here. - See also: for more details, be sure to read the new review by Doug Lenat, creator of...
View ArticleMetascience: The Convergence of Science and Religion
(DRAFT 7. Work-In-Progress) What is the universe and where does it come from? There are two major schools of thought on this question: Science: One is modern-day science, which takes the position that...
View ArticleWhat'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 ArticleWill the Web Become Conscious?
“All reality is virtual” — Terrence McKenna This is Part II of my article “The Global Brain is About to Wake Up” — about the realtime Web and how it relates to the emerging Global Brain. Here I focus...
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....
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