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25 juin 2008, par Ivo — Mind, Society, Technosoul, Big Brother, cookies, Echelon, feed, google, Google Reader, Google Trends, Grande Fratello, joga, meditation, meditazione, Microsoft, neuromarketing, RSS, yoga
The methods of tracing and controlling our Internet activities have become constantly more varied and sophisticated. Cookies are probably the (...)
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17 juin 2008, par Ivo — Mind, Society, Spirituality, Technosoul, identità, identity, neuroscience, neuroscienza, Susan Greenfield, technology, tecnologia
Neuroscientist Susan Greenfield questions what technology is doing to human identity in Perspectives: Reinventing human identity (New Scientist (...)
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13 juin 2008, par Ivo — Mind, Technosoul, almaas, archetype, astrology, bloggers, brain, creativity, eureka, Joseph-Chilton-Pearce, Laski, neurophysiology, sexuality, Spirituality, writers, writers-block
This is an expanded version of an older post.
Many writers and probably many bloggers are faced with the typical writer’s block. While this (...)
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5 juin 2008, par Ivo — Media, Society, MP3, music, musica, psiche, psicologia, psyche, società
Recently, during an Italian conference dedicated to music on the Net, one boy said to the speaker, “We can download the complete discography of (...)
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29 mai 2008, par Ivo — Eros, Gender, Media, Society, brain waves, cell phones, cellulari, internet, McLuhan, radio, social networks, società, television, televisioni
Marshall McLuhan summarized his view of the media in a model called the tetrad of media effects. The tetrad asks the following four questions (...)
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20 mai 2008, par Ivo — Mind, Society, Technosoul, avatar, Cartesio, Damasio, Darwin, darwinism, darwinismo, Descartes, epifisi, epiphysis, ghiandola pineale, Hillman, Kuhn, melatonin, melatonina, metodo scientifico, neuroscience, neuroscienze, neurotransmitters, neurotrasmettitori, osho, pyneal gland, schizofrenia, schizophrenia, sciamanesimo, science, scientific method, scienza, shamanism
Though Descartes is considered the father of rationality and of the modern scientific method, in his researches he was a philosopher and (...)
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16 mai 2008, par Ivo — Gender, Mind, Society, ambiente, Christianity, Cristianesimo, ecologia, ecology, economia, economy, energia, energy, environment, finance, peak oil, production, produzione, psicologia, psychology, religione, sociologia, sociology, technology, tecnologia
A couple of years ago I started to write this short essay on the inner motivations and the addiction to production. At that time the (...)
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6 mai 2008, par Ivo — Media, Society, Technosoul, Cuba, McLuhan, programmazione, programming, Weizenbaum
Joseph Weizenbaum, who died recently, had documented in the 1970s in Computer Power and Human Reason (W. H. Freeman and Company, 1976) the (...)
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29 avril 2008, par Ivo — Media, Mind, Society, Technosoul, almaas, buddhism, Buddismo, maya, McLuhan, mente, Narciso, Narcissus, psicologia, psychology, spiritualità, Spirituality, technology, tecnologia, zen
Marshall McLuhan told us that every medium and every technology has a role in the extension and numbness of our organs. The mind’s extensions (...)
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22 avril 2008, par Ivo
Just before the spread of the Internet, around 1995, we experienced the mobile phone boom in Italy, two media which have transformed our lives. (...)
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7 juillet 2008, par Ivo — Media, Spirituality, Technosoul, blog, Burroughs, conoscenza, copyright, information, informazioni, knowledge, music, musica, osho, U.G. Krishnamurti, Upanishad
The debate about copyright is one of the most heated on the Internet. Record labels, movie distributors, publishers, news agencies, bloggers and (...)
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19 juillet 2008, par Ivo — Society, Spirituality, Technosoul, almaas, Assagioli, awareness, brain, Budda, buddha, cervello, consapevolezza, Diamond Heart, ego, enlightenment, identità, identity, illuminazione, lifelogging, Morin, multitasking, OpenID, osho, psicosintesi, psychosynthesis, schizofrenia, schizophrenia, Self, social-networking, Talbot, Turkle, Twitter, U.G. Krishnamurti
We are scattered over the Net, a piece in a social networking site, another piece in a different site, in a dating site, we write in our blog and (...)
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30 juillet 2008, par Ivo — Spirituality, Technosoul, bioenergetica. Laing, bioenergetics, chat, forum, Lowen, psicologia, psychology, social network
Ronald David Laing was a controversial psychiatrist, often associated with the anti-psychiatrist movement. He combined existential philosophy (...)
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11 décembre 2008, par Ivo — Media, Mind, Technosoul, chat, Google Labs, Google Mail, IM, SMS
Gmail added another “much-needed” feature we all were starving to see:
How often do you try to chat with somebody and they don’t respond because (...)
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8 décembre 2008, par Ivo — Media, Mind, Technosoul, almaas, Budda, buddha, Eckhart Tolle, google, Lively, meditation, meditazione, mondi-virtuali, realtà virtuale, Second-Life, virtual reality, virtual-worlds
Google recently discontinued Lively, the Second Life-like project. Even though that’s only one out of many of Google’s projects, it’s symbolic of a (...)
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25 novembre 2008, par Ivo — Mind, Technosoul, bookmarks, meditation, object relations psychology
I was browsing my bookmarks accumulated over a couple of years, both on the browser and in sites devoted to saving and organizing them. Like many (...)
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18 novembre 2008, par Ivo — Eros, Media, Society, cibersesso, cybersex, masturbation, masturbazione, sesso, sessualità, sex, sexuality
The tendency of spreading sex has been adopted by many magazines of large circulation and by other media such as TV and Internet news sites. (...)
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4 novembre 2008, par Ivo — Society, economia, economy, finance, finanza, globalization, globalizzazione
Financial markets have connected everything to everything else. Economy, finance, raw materials, energy sources, politics, conflicts, the (...)
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24 octobre 2008, par Ivo — Mind, Technosoul, awareness, consapevolezza, consciousness, coscienza, Google Mail, parole, words
Google Mail has announced a new service. In “A picture is worth a thousand
words” new colored emoticons are introduced for email messages. I doubt (...)
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14 octobre 2008, par Ivo — Media, Technosoul, alcohol, alcool, Goggles, google, Mail, meditation, meditazione
Last week, Google Labs introduced a new service, Mail Goggles. This service is intended to
prevent many of you out there from sending messages (...)