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Comparing TheBrain with Roam. There is also a second video about use-cases. It does not look very well for TheBrain.

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I really think RoamResearch has some unique features and pulls it all together in a new way. Maybe that bidirectional links (subject of this video) are not unique, but the way they use unlinked references and play with the sidebar is pretty amazin.

The way one uses terminology is very important, e.g. A.I.

"The future will like arrive in part by design and in part by disaster. Our challenge is to try to constitute the future through planning and community action, not have the future constitute us," said Alexander.

useful security tips

don't confuse this with node.js. This is about visual programming. The thing is not ready yet for public use, but it's getting there.

The only problem is, as Edward O. Wilson so succinctly put it, "we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology." So how do we overcome our Paleolithic emotions (like fear, jealousy, and greed) and our medieval institutions (US health care, anyone?) to deploy our godlike technologies?

A city support local businesses during the pandemic using an alternative currency

A new IFTF tool to analyze how climate, race issues, inequality interact and what we can do about it.

The IFTF explains how futurism can be used in times of pandemic

Collaboration is one of the things students can learn using Minecraft

It's a foregone conclusion that everybody in the world will be a gamer someday. There are only a billion active gamers today. Someday there will be 7 billion, 8 billion active gamers. The growth opportunity for gaming is still well ahead of us. Gaming is the only entertainment that can be any entertainment. You and I both know that when the metaverse [arrives], we're going to spend a lot more time in game worlds, not just to game, but just to hang out, to be with people, to interact with people. The gaming market has a great future ahead of it.

gpt-3 is being used to summarize books

A journaliste has worked for a week with oculus and tells us what happened (the article is in Italian)