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how to deal mindfully with an endless offering of videoconferences?

You can immerse yourself in a Zoom monastery

Howard Rheingold: "Now that so many are forced to use online media to communicate, let's use this opportunity to create many smaller virtual communities and social networks outside the enclosed world of Facebook."

"What is a human? What are social relations? Thinking about robotics and artificial intelligence is dealing with big philosophical questions. uni:view talked to Mark Coeckelbergh, philosopher of technology, about the ethics of robotics, his daily work and personal balance."

this is an interesting openlearning experience, the format is that of a cMOOC. cMOOCs are a great inspiration for me (helping me to 'get' peeragogy and inciting me to start our collaborative bookreading experiment).

These people support writers and journalists and they are open-source. They can host and protect your blogsites.

Brilliant find Roland, will some help the rest of us to participate here, or have they done so already and I missed it? Thanks again.

"Twitter as a co-op? It is a dream that is worthy of consideration Alternative models are far from discredited - just look at Wikipedia and Mozilla"

Engaged journnalism: how newsrooms work with communities

Whether you like Facebook or not, it's a major major force. What they do has consequences for who we are as homo sapiens.

Goging beyond the words to the semantic meaning creating an universal language understanding. Stuff like that. Fascinating.

"He believes that although technology can objectively decrease risk of a particular kind or make us feel less vulnerable in particular way, any technology that decreases some kind of risk also introduces new risks, thereby altering the ways in which we are at risk and experience vulnerability. Thus, rather than think of the human-technology dialectic as a process that makes humans less vulnerable, it is better conceptualized, he believes, as a process of transformation--a process that transforms human vulnerability."

"The most unexpected part of the Microsoft Ignite keynote was the panel discussion on Quantum Computing and the potential role for Microsoft to empower this next revolution in computing with a new programming language and qubit simulator that runs on Azure later this year. While Quantum Computing efforts are likely to be immaterial to the forecast over the next three-to-five years, the amount of airtime that Quantum Computing received at the opening keynote at Ignite showcases the longer-term aspirations for Microsoft to continue pushing the envelope of technology innovation, with an emphasis on mixed reality, AI, and quantum computing."