By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here is what he wrote
Isaac Asimov, Toronto Star, 2018/12/31
35 years ago, I had already read dozens of Asimov's science fiction works and was a fan. I may well have read this article. 35 years later it still rings true, with one caveat: the time scale is too brief by about half, a common failing of predictions. The world changes more slowly than we realize. More...
The President of Finland Sauli Niinistö has attended a ceremony in front of the Council of Europe’s headquarters in Strasbourg, to mark the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. More...
The role of the commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust is to engrave on the minds of the younger generations the lessons learnt from these tragic events and to make sure that each of us remains vigilant to help prevent manifestations of intolerance and incitement to hatred that may lead to acts of genocide. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. With what do you want to light the torch? Say things in full, bedlamite!
Wordshore, Metafilter, 2018/10/23
This year marks, more or less, the 40th anniversary of the Multi-User Dungeon, or MUD. This post on Metafilter focuses on the first MUD, ultimately called MUD2, licensed to CompuServe, and later killed by that company. MUDs really began to proliferate with the LPMud, created by Lars Pensjö, which, first, was extensible, and second, spawned numerous free and public domain versions of the code (many of which predate the 'official' invention of free software at Stanford in 1989). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Mastodon's 2 Year Anniversary
Eugen Rochko, Mastodon, 2018/10/15
There have been numerous predictions that Mastodon won't last through the end of the year but as it passes its second anniversary it continues to grow, currently sitting at 1,627,557 registered users on 3,460 servers. That's still a tiny fraction of Facebook or even Twitter users, but it's still significant. More...
Est-ce que des actions comme celles de la co-création ont une valeur alors qu’elles ne sont pas construites autour de l’objet lui-même, de l’acte de payer, mais autour de l’échange gagnat-gagnant, de la démarche et du chemin ? Prenons un exemple ancien comme l'époque du Moyen-Âge pour rationaliser ce sujet en dehors de toutes polémiques actuelles sur la valeur des choses. Au Moyen-Âge, voire à l’époque romaine il n’y avait pas de médium monétaire pour tout et pourtant il y avait une économie et des hommes pour la faire tourner. Plus...
Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. La contre Réforme et l’Art. L’exemple des représentations de Saint-Jérôme dans la peinture et dans la sculpture. Plus...Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. 28 mai 1606, dans une rixe à Rome, Caravage tue Ranuccio Tomassoni d’un coup d’épée… Pour ce meurtre d’un fils d’une puissante et violente famille, liée aux Farnèse de Parme, Caravage est condamné par contumace à la mort par décapitation. Cela le contraint à rester éloigné de Rome. Plus...Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Jean Geiler de Kaysersberg (1445 -1510), prédicateur de la cathédrale de Strasbourg de 1478 à 1510, prêchant du haut de la chaire sculptée par Hans Hammer en 1485. Plus...
By Kerrie Kennedy. The International Association of College Admission Counseling is preparing to welcome a record number of attendees to celebrate its 25th anniversary at its upcoming summer conference in New Orleans. More...
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