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« It gets me to thinking, what makes beautiful code? In HTML, it comes down to craftsmanship. Let's take a look at some markup written they way markup should be written and see how beautiful it can be. » [ + PNG image ]

A contact lens that harvests radio waves to power an LED is paving the way for a new kind of display. The lens is a prototype of a device that could display information beamed from a mobile device.

The web is less than 5000 days old. Everything we all take for granted was published in the last 5000 days. Satellite images of the earth, your family tree, all patents, the populations phone numbers, our resume, government forms, all legal doc's, all friends, newspapers, real time stock quotes, all movies, everything for sale, everything for auctions, properties for sale, all regulations, all books….

This slideset was part of our "How to consume Linked Data" tutorial at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Oct. 2009

There are several stand-alone augmented reality apps that have been developed for our mobiles, but similar to our cellphone being Internet-enabled, when will technology advance our smartphones to become totally integrated with augmented reality? Is Tag Technology the answer?

...or at least that's what Ray Kurzweil thinks. He has spent his life inventing machines that help people, from the blind to dyslexics. Now, he believes we're on the brink of a new age - the 'singularity' - when mind-boggling technology will allow us to email each other toast, run as fast as Usain Bolt (for 15 minutes) - and even live forever. Is there sense to his science - or is the man who reasons that one day he'll bring his dad back from the grave just a mad professor peddling a nightmare vision of the future?

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Comme vous l'aurez remarqué, ce blog porte le titre de "The Transcendent Man's blog", ceci nous amène à la notion de l'homme transcendé ou en d'autres termes à l'avènement d'une époque où l'homme et la technologie ne feront plus qu'un !  Je conçois que cette notion peut vous sembler soit lointaine alors qu'elle est déjà si présente, soit complètement folle et pourtant il vous suffit d'observer un tant soit peu l'évolution exponentielle des usages technologiques pour comprendre dans les grandes lignes les trajectoires qui se précisent de jour en jour devant nous : l'homme augmenté, l'IA, le Global Brain, la Robotique, les nouvelles interfaces hommes/machines, le M to M, les exo-Squelettes ou exo-Brain que sont par exemple déjà vos smart-phones, … et la liste devient de plus en plus longue et imminente ! "L'informationnel pervasif en ligne de mire d'une prospective vers la singularité !"

Although the Semantic Web (SW) is still very much in its infancy, there is already a lot of data out there which conforms to the proposed SW standards (e.g. RDF and OWL). Small vertical vocabularies and ontologies have emerged, and the community of people using these is growing daily.

A startup says natural language processing works best with human intelligence.

When Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, entered the room for the final interview at the Web 2.0 Summit, the audience stood up for him

Semantic database : people, institutions, locations, etc.