Posts Tagged ‘president’

Fair weather friendship

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

If you read newspapers from around Europe over the last few days, you found an almost unanimous “thumbs down” on the choices for first European President and the first Foreign Affairs Secretary (it will be clear later why I use “alternative” job titles).

It is quite funny: the consensus bridges the Euro-sceptics and the Euro-nationalists.

Personally, I believe that the Euro-sceptics do not realize that the train already left the station, and now the issue is only how fast and where it will go.

As for the Euro-nationalists: do you really believe that it is possible in the XXI century to rebuild a Charlemagne-style empire?

GMN2009: Next- beyond the skull

Monday, May 25th, 2009

We moved from the concept of model, change, and project, to their application in ordinary business life, and to create something with relevant potential social impact, on both businesses and people- the Human Genome Project and the future brain mapping.

But all this covered only the “Genome, mind mapping” part of the title.

Neural networks are both a concept and a technology, and the impact is already visible in some decision-making activities, and in everyday technological products and services.

What could be a further development? What are going to be potential impacts on how we organize, structure, decide, act?

Again, some simple lessons derived by the computer between your ears.

And, I promise: I will not create any neologisms- I will use what is already available on the market- actually, in science.

This post is part of a series, first published in May 2009.

GMN2009: Genome and brain mapping

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

The visible title of this section is “Genome and brain mapping”.

The link is named “cathedrals”.

It is not a criticism: it is a realistic assessment.

Beside the human genome and brain mapping, this section will discuss also how these and other mapping initiatives could affect not just science and medicine, but our everyday life.

This post is part of a series, first published in May 2009.

Political campaigning in the XXI century

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Recently (October 27th 2008), an e-zine whose editor is a friend published an article on Senator Obama use of Web 2.0 campaign. (The article is here, but only in Italian).

Which lessons could be derived? Here is my commentary, with links to relevant material.