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Intelligent agents are happening
16
Jun
In a recent article in CIO Australia, many new jobs are
being proposed to increase the services where intelligent agents can be used, they include: services to tag pictures and verify that these markings popular with users on Facebook, Baidu is working on a technology to put an adjoining voice capacity for its search engine allowing users to chat via smartphones or other devices, the Department of Defense and the Australian Technology Organization is trying a technology with intelligent agents to control autonomous drones operating in sea, land and air mapping using satellite and which seems particularly interesting IBM is training your supercomputer Watson to ask questions of human experts and help them with tasks such as drug discovery and document classification.
The report does not explain much of each of these surveys, but talk show-type question and answer, called Jeopardy in the US, the Watson computer won human.
The idea that we can classify documents and assist the organization in a universe with just enough disorder is a very simple idea because all chaos has an order, and complex because it requires the processing of billions of data, and therefore information, entropy which is a Indeed since the beginning of history but does not address something else that the very idea that it is possible to organize it is also possible to develop a process of self-organization, not automatic but likely to be suggestible and manageable.
Tom Simonite, author of an article in MIT Technology Review, described a test of the new feature Watson, made in the Environment Cognitive Lab of IBM in Yorktown Heights, New York, with a laboratory equipped with a conference room with microphones to listen and convey all what they say in the meeting, the software used there apparently takes all inputs speech and transcribes them in real time to feed it to the computer and Watson did this with various experts.
The area of intelligent agents promises to be the next big disruptive technology of the decade.
Down economy in Brazil: time to save
20
May
Several websites help consumers make savings in Brazil, compare products, shops, airline
tickets, and there are those who give discount coupons for online stores, and show how to practice the best prices.
The Buscapé is undoubtedly one of the best sites to save, you will find it offers organized by category, if you want the best looking good this site.
Zoom and Bondfaro sites are strong competitors in the Buscapé comparison, a lesser-known but no less efficient the JáCotei, sites for buy in Brazil.
In order to provide comparative prices in supermarkets of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba and some local Santa Catarina Meu Carrinho application Buscapé group, compares prices of 25 networks registered supermarkets, such as: Extra, Balcony Zone South, Sugar Loaf, Delivery, probe, pricesa, Mercaorama, Angeloni and others
To help finance people with financial problems, debts, insurance, cards and consortiums, also with health and education, Konkero is a portal that can help users a lot.
To buy and sell cars, check list prices, analyze different regions of the country iCarro site is one of the most versatile.
There are countless websites for travel, tours and flights, it is best to find what the best for the region, namely that companies make flights, including the possible hosting locations and verify that the packages are not cheaper.
But do not forget credit cards only last if necessary, overdraft use is almost a usury (reaches over 200% per year) and see what fits in the budget do not forget to make reservations for emergencies: the brakes in bags.
5 myths about technology
19
May
While technology may have dangers, this is not unique to it, all means that man uses can cause deviant behavior, 
addictions and consumerism, but almost everything we use is kind, from clothes, books and food, mobile phones, tablets and computers.
Information online as Infomoney and Olhar Digital released its myths, only one I repeat here, the idea that mobile phone use causes brain cancer, there is no evidence of this, just coincidences of people who have used very mobile and had cancer, which It is different from proving that this is the cause.
The other 4 important are: the computer usage difficult to read, in fact make a different reading on the computer, it is a little tiring continuously read on the computer, but whole pages should be avoided, but the reading of e-books is practice many readers, but there are also those who prefer books and those who use them.
Another myth is that young people would be less going to libraries because the digital world, did a post with Pew Research Internet Project site data showing that this is false.
The fourth myth is that through the virtual world is opposed to the real, that unfortunately even sociologists and serious thinkers spread, first this is a logical error because the virtual is not opposed to real, not unreal, but only “potential” towards possible, with a lack of knowledge of the meaning of the word that comes from virtus, which is the same rais of virtue.
The fifth myth is that technology somehow opposes the construction of the human being, or even of humanism or anything positive for man, that is unaware that throughout human history technology has always sought to help the man, of course there are instruments of war, the atomic bomb etc, that is destructive technology, but beware of generalizations, almost everything we use clothing to work instruments, almost everything suffers and suffers constant technological change in order to improve the instrument.
The fifth is a philosophical myth of the West, the idea that everything is object is negligible and should not prevent direct human relationship, now just think of things from day to day: clothes, objects of our home, our work, books and of course their own money and technological objects, they are “impregnated” of humanity because they are part of our relationship Others, of course can be used positively or not, but this decision is up to man
Company announces clean energy
07
May
The Tesla company had already announced last year the construction in the US state of Nevada a super lithium-ion 
battery capable of supplying power to several cities, the investment of 5 billion dollars (about 15 billion real) in partnership with Japanese Panasonic, now announces a new step in clean energy, Powerwall which is already being developed in a warehouse on the outskirts of Los Angeles, announced last week.
The Tesla Powerwall equipment is to supply home residences from solar panels, and can operate at night, in addition to providing a secure backup in case of a power outage, as news on Business Insider.
In theory the device can be mounted to a garage wall can make completely independent houses of traditional electricity, using only solar energy.
The idea of solar energy can change the energy pattern around the globe, eliminating the anti-ecological (and often antissocial in Brazil) energy from hydroelectric and dangerous nuclear energy, and the announcement on first May, the company’s founder the American Elon Musk said the goal is to turn all worldwide energy infrastructure until we get the ‘zero-carbon’ sustainable, left to governments and energy companies will leave.
Later this year takes place in Paris the prestigious UNFCCC – or the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that promises an effective and real pressure presence in governments and businesses.
Technology, science and rebirth
04
May
The architecture of cirterciense monks, was followed by the Gothic cathedrals of medieval
and technical advances arc usage (support span roofs and even bridges) was a product of the Middle Ages, the invention of the printing press (the Chinese movable type already there) and later internalized understanding (silent reading was new) was important as the first step towards the democratization of writing and learning “scholar” whose word has a Latin root “scholastic”.
Among the most beautiful libraries in the world (see the list of top 10) is the Admont Abbey Admont founded in Austria in 1074 and 1776 embellished with golden tones, and the library and the library of the Strahov monastery in the Czech Republic beyond 1143, and indeed just cited, the monks built 3,500 libraries in the medieval world, knowing it was not popular was true, but it was a period of construction that culminated in the written press.
The dissemination of written culture through books, will start a learning process of democratization, which was not possible without the reproduction of books and even the invention of spectacles as much of the population was shortsighted, and allowed a faster propagation of ideas which paves the way for the expansion of reason, ideas and culture.
technology of great voyages allow not only the European maritime and commercial expansion, but will be the scientific advances that will discover an extraordinary number of new species of animals and plants, and new geological and climatic formations.
All this is in check including the technology itself, should I switch to a complex thought and look at the planet as a homeland for all, but you can not throw away the progress and advancement that rebirth gave rise, perhaps a new re-rebirth .
In the ceiling fresco of Strahov (pictured) made in the eighteenth century was called The humanity’s efforts for true wisdom, I think this is our effort.
Eclipse of reason, individualism and humanism
19
Mar
Man can for the first time in its history watch consciously and intentionally a change in time, as if we had today’s consciousness but assistíssemos the late Middle Ages, now not right.
What is the reason, one of the most brilliant writings of Max Horkheimer’s “Eclipse of Reason” read it in a voluntary exile when turned in to a reflection on our goals, affections and attachments, read at that time, “again and again, when urban culture race reached its peak, for example, in Florence in the fifteenth century, there was a balance similar to the psychological forces “(Horkheimer, 2002, p. 136).
It is for this social issue, not individual, so many people are looking for a saving force, autoajudas manuals, doctrines that are somehow something that points to the balance, but will not find in the individual and in just a few groups .
The individual subject to the state, endowed with almost divine powers over the individual which should be your protector, your spoiler and can not sustain their minimum rights, health, education and above all peace.
Blame this individualism of individual, is to take the part for the whole, this unprotected and isolated individual is forced to seek refuge for maintenance and dignified life and individualism is the resulting effect and not the cause of “eclipse” that society lives.
The reason for the eclipse comes also of being in pieces: be social, be individual and spiritual being, knowledge of fragmentation and also fragments the man in parts, forgetting -If your unit be designed to infinity, as is essential, and changeable and finite in appearance only what becomes the agreement of the contextual and temporary need, but are for basic needs that were designed: sociability, love and peace.
We exchanged essential for emergency, trade structures and loved by Being, and it perish and the individual penalty for an existence always subject to the “eclipse” of an end of season.
World Forum and technologies
11
Feb
In addition to economic discussions, the
serious political and social problems that many parts of the world cross, also the technologies has its place, the forum pointed technologies that are on the rise: Wireless cars, molecular nutrition, use of sensors that communicate with “things“ around us (ubiquity), sensors to monitor the health all the time that can be included in the body and some others.
One of the technologies that can greatly help humanity, we are facing a water crisis in many places, one tecnbologia to desalinate water at low cost was discussed and could be a highly sustainable way out, because the sea level is rising, they will reduce the energy consumption by 50% or even more.
Electric cars arrived, the problem is even autonomy of supply, but cars Wireless and greater autonomy are already being designed, the idea is to supply moving from an electromagnetic field installed on the roads, as the problem are long trips, there are already such tests in Seoul, South Korea.
Modern techniques could wipe out malnutrition in millions of people worldwide, using natural proteins essential to human, biotechnology promises to take power at the molecular level, however, fundamentalists may object as always.
Scientists working for many years to put “organic“ circuits inside the human body, they could produce medicines in the right dose within the body, acting so located around the diseased cell.
The technology is there to help the man, but a lot of backward mentality lingers.
Ranciére: image and technology
07
Jan
Jacques Rancière argues that the image already met its fate (The Future of the Image, 2007) and it is not fetishism, for it continued their power directly affect man and at the same time are record and marks in history to educate and transform .
But it is important and possible to put them in a relationship to be, if we remember the category difference and repetition (Heidegger, Deleuze and others), the temporal image operations and the time-image, I prefer the category dynamic image, it can be think that this belongs to the future emanating from it.
It is no longer the painter of the frame or photo, although they persist and continue to have an ontological importance of recording, but now one can speak in combinations and breaks the visible and speakable ad infinitum, as Rancière thinks.
What Rancière says in the background, of course is just a vision of an interpreter, is that politics is not just a struggle for power, but should always have a certain distribution of the sensible, a redefinition of ways to view and organize the real, and this are also the networks and the virtual.
This particular form of the sensitive agency that gives visibility to things in a way that previously they had not, and opens the person who appropriates the new ferrramentas in good ways to work on the power to speak and act in social alliances, not just party or sectorized groups.
In reading Ranciére notes the concern with the possibility of aesthetic acts were likely always new ways of feeling common to new forms of political subjectivity (Rancière,2009).
Jacques Rancière: Politics, History, Aesthetics (2000). Eds. Phil Watts and Gabriel Rockhill. (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2009), and I think that technologies enable and empower this possibility.
Brazilian independent theater at risk
18
Dec
The most popular form of cultural expression, older remains the theater, and the independent theater plays a key role in this, emerges from the national and São Paulo culture more freely and democratically.
Due to real estate speculation, happened yesterday in São Paulo Cultural Center the first protest that shows the fragile situation of the independent São Paulo theater groups, who may lose their spaces or being moved to less visible places.
The fact happened last November with the Testimonials Bartholomew Center, which is a mixture of epic theater and hip-hop, with 15 years on the road and even with the rent on time, the group had to give the space a shed in Pompeii (west side of São Paulo), see photo above the dump.
A manifesto entitled Manifesto “In Defense of Cultural Territories Threatened” or public recognition that the 22 theater groups are the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the City of São Paulo, a document excerpt says “Can not that the right to private goods market a few is more important than the cultural heritage of many. “
Social networks helped Brincante group to remain in place, Vila Madalena (West Zone) with #ficabrincante campaign, by court decision the institute will remain there in 2015.
Internet access should be a human right
26
Nov
It is indicating a survey done in Canada and in 24 countries, with 23,376 respondents who indicated that access the
internet is key to economic future, important for the freedom of political expression, for it should be a human right.
The survey was conducted by Ipsos Institute for GCIG (Global Commission on Internet Governance), and presented at the beginning of a two-day meeting in Ottawa on governance on the Internet.
The World Commission on Internet Governance, the main host of the Ottawa conference, revealed that the world is on a path of struggle for power and many groups and governments have an interest in maintaining influence on all aspects of internet.
But the study of this committee argues that most people do not want any nation or organization in control of the world wide web and therefore a matter of planetary citizenship, and the problem is who should regulate access and use the internet.
The idea is that a group formed by a combination of specialists, engineers and non-governmental groups, is chosen by 57% of those who would be entrusted with this task, but 50% thought that the United Nations could carry out this work and there are still 36% that argue that the United States should take the lead in this area.
The survey was conducted from October 7 to November 12 in the countries: South Africa, Germany, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, South Korea, Egypt, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Kenya, UK, Switzerland, Tunisia and Turkey.
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The CGIg which is chaired by diplomat and former politician Carl Bildt Swiss, shall submit its final report for future governance of the Internet in 2016.
