AI Digest: 7/31/09. 10 Worst Evolutionary Designs.

Daily links on AI, IA and where social tech meets the two.

Today: reports from Wired, Fast Company, and Crunchgear.

AI Digest: 7/30/09. Fire-fighting Robots.

Daily links on AI, IA and where social tech meets the two.

Today: reports from Mashable, The LA Times, and The Christian Science Monitor.

Bladder Diplomacy (or the Art of Being There)

I was reminded today of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s policy of never leaving a meeting for fear that in today’s world decisions can be made without you, abruptly. The policy — allegedly forced on all of Secretary Albright’s reports — is known as bladder diplomacy, which has many adherents, of which [...]

Here Come the Social Machines

For as much as we have become aware that the machine is becoming more like man, we are blissfully unaware of how much man is become more like machine. We’re seeing more and more research – not much, however, surfacing to mainstream consciousness — that our device addictions are taxing our neural anatomy, limiting our ability to perform, limiting our ability to relate to others. So, in the end, what has been cut off from our vision is not only the coming of smarter, more useful social machines, but the extent to which we have become social machines as well.

AI Digest: 7/29/09. “Software that Cares.”

Daily links on AI, IA and where social tech meets the two.

Today: Reports from The New York Times and CNET.

AI Digest: 7/28/09. Abuse of Narcolepsy Drug?

Daily links on AI, IA and where social tech meets the two. Today: Articles and posts from Brain Blogger, Science Daily, and Dvice.

Slashdot: Are Women Getting More Beautiful?

Funny, I thought they were just smarter.

All Things That Rise — On New Beginnings

It’s one thing to say that social technology is good business, and quite another thing to say that social technology makes business good. And I am quite certain that this has not yet been fully explored — there are so many questions about what it means to be “good,” both philosophical and practical. That’s the overarching mission of this blog, and if I am successful I will take what I learn here — in my posts and conversations with you— and use it as the foundation for a book I’ve been sketching for quite some time — perhaps, ever since college, but almost certainly since I first began tinkering in the world of social media.

AI Digest: 7/27/09. Bots in the Military.

Daily links on AI, IA and where social tech meets the two.

Today: Articles and posts from The New Atlantis, Mind Hacks, and the Korea Times.

Video of the Week: Olympus Pen

Love this. Brilliant idea for a company in the “memories business.” Reminiscent of the Carousel episode on Mad Men. But best of all, it pushes the boundaries of how we think about online, offline, past and present — the stuff that has inspired me to launch ATTR. In the post 2.0 world, we are all amphibious.