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Interesting book about how to survive the future, Bob has a background in asian religions and seems to apply this in his howto escape boxes in a post-categorical future

how to deal mindfully with an endless offering of videoconferences?

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).

Collaboration can seem inefficient, risky, low value, political even.... It is a skill that needs to be practiced and is worth it. (Just don't apply collaboration to EVERY situation)

The time has come, said Re, for AI scientists to focus on higher-level tasks such as bringing domain expertise to AI rather than twiddling hyper-parameter settings of neural networks.

maybe one major country is ahead compared to one other major country, but this tends to make us forget that it is still behind 20 other countries.

From the research side of things, we continue to see a strong correlation between the size of the model and the performance on many popular benchmarks. Universities can no longer compete on this. Academics can still make valuable research contributions by showing new ways to do things that work on smaller, publicly available models. However, it does put a number of research goals out of the realm of possibility without collaborating with large tech firms.

by Renée DiResta, the Technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory. "Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort, but artificial intelligence will take them to a whole new level"

The Indieweb is based on owning your own domain name and owning and managing your own web server. As Goldsmith notes, none of these is free, and in fact, they create a significant barrier to participation. "If a movement has at its core a significant barrier to entry, then it is always exclusionary. While we've already seen that the movement has barriers at ability and personality, it is also true that, as of 2021, there is a significant barrier in terms of monetary resources."

Scientific experts recognize that building and scaling quantum-protected and enhanced communication networks are among the most important technological frontiers of the 21st century. The international research community perceives the construction of a first prototype global quantum network-the Quantum Internet-to be within reach over the next decade.

"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.

Oculus Quest, hence Facebook, tries to make inroads into the market for company and work-related products and services

Interesting. These people did not engage into original reporting, they were curators of media stories. They had to take care that there was a balance in political views, that stuff was appropriate for youngsters, and now we'll have to see whether the AI can make these curating decisions as well as the humans.

a facet to add to our collaborative story :p

It's another of those moments when people to whom the Internet is still a distinctive and beloved medium fret that it's about to be violently changed into all everything they were glad it wasn't when it began

How to debunk conspiracy theories. I will put it on Miro as well.

"'When someone seeks,' said Siddhartha, 'then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing. [...] Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.' " Hermann Hesse"

Zoom is teaming up with Facebook Inc. to make Zoom Whiteboard available in the social network's Oculus virtual reality headsets. Users will gain the ability to collaborate on documents and other files in a virtual room through Oculus Horizons Workrooms, a VR collaboration app available with Oculus headsets.