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Happy birthday, Web!
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
Questions and answers
Sometimes, you may get a very good answer from your questions. When the answer comes from a machines, it’s even more interesting. Try asking questions to WolframAlpha, the computational “knowledge engine” from Wolfram Research, the same guys who make the … Continue reading
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Thus Spake Zarathustra-Bill Gates
Thus, He spoke, at last. When asked today (November 2, 2013) by The Financial Times about his thoughts on priority between malaria vaccination and Internet connectivity he replied: As a priority, it’s a joke. […] Take this malaria vaccine, [this] … Continue reading
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Tagged education, humanitarian, internet, open, Web
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Not your typical rock concert
Even though agnostic writers of the caliber of Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa applauded the recent World Youth Days kermesse that was held in Madrid a few days ago, I am really quite of the opposite view. Not for religious … Continue reading
Humanistic Provocationz
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. — Charles Darwin I was lately thinking of the importance of reading, being myself an avid reader: of both stories and essays, papers, … Continue reading