Category Archives: open

Opening the Ivory Tower

Posted on November 29, 2014 by Antonio Vantaggiato

I had a great time at the Faculty Resource Network’s 2014 Symposium, last week’s Friday and Saturday in San Juan, with talks from John Sexton, NYU’s President and UPR’s and Sagrado’s Presidents, both current and emeritus. My own presentation was … Continue reading →

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Where Do I Come From?

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Antonio Vantaggiato

In this TED video, Jim Holt, philosopher and author of the book “Why Does The World Exist?“, which I read and loved, says that the God solution to the title riddle is a bit unsatisfactory. Thus, he proposes an intriguingly … Continue reading →

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I Love Babylon

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Plaque with face of the demon Humbaba | Babylonian | Old Babylonian | The Metropolitan Museum of Art I love Babylon. This image, together with 400,000 more is available as a free resource for non-commercial use. Here.

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New media, monopolies and democracy (and Google)

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Antonio Vantaggiato

The quasi-last class in my New Media course was the occasion to close a discourse begun with the article The Web We Lost by Anil Dash. The message was essentially that it is quite difficult, for people who were not … Continue reading →

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Happy birthday, Web!

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Antonio Vantaggiato

The World Wide Web is 25 today, March 12, after being born out of the mind of the visionary Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. It is outstanding, and I am not stopping to shout it everywhere I go, that Berners-Lee and … Continue reading →

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