{"id":84,"date":"2012-03-16T03:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.insideout.io\/en\/?p=84"},"modified":"2012-03-16T03:22:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T03:22:00","slug":"sxsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.insideout.io\/en\/2012\/03\/16\/sxsw\/","title":{"rendered":"South by South West Interactive 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>It\u2019s not easy to wrap up all the information I\u2019ve been absorbing these days in Austin during the biggest Tech Festival on Planet.\u00a0<!--more-->Let\u2019s start by getting an overview of my phone activities these days (pretty insane I would say \u2013 including the 4\u2019 AM wake up on Wednesday &#8211; scale is from 0 to 60).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"my phone's activity over time\" height=\"211\" src=\"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/8801031\/sxsw\/activity.png\" width=\"550\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Our brain has a quite discreet function of content summarization based on concept tagging and here is the first list that pops up to my mind (order is random):<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span>Synesthesia<\/span><\/strong><span>\u00a0is a perceptual condition of mixed sensations: a stimulus in one sensory modality (e.g., hearing) involuntarily elicits a sensation\/experience in another modality (e.g. vision) &#8211; the speaker of the amazing talk was <strong>David Eagleman<\/strong> and he really dug quite brilliantly the mysteries of our minds; with scientific proofs and a series of effective optical tests on the audiences he asserted that <u>we perceive reality just as we perceive dreams<\/u>. There is a lot more here to be said and if you\u2019re interested here is a link to David\u2019s latest book &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.it\/gp\/product\/0307377334\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=www2030latemp-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=3370&amp;creative=23322&amp;creativeASIN=0307377334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain<\/a>&rdquo;;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span>Moral Psychology<\/span><\/strong>: the combination of Big Data with Psychological Values and insights (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cyberandy\/status\/178951952514818048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cyberandy\/status\/178951952514818048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/cyberandy\/status\/178951952514818048<\/a><\/span><\/a>) &#8211; the speaker was\u00a0Ravi Iyer and what I liked about this talk was the sense of <em>seamless convergence between the quantified world and the intrinsic psychological values of our species<\/em> \u2013 Ravi\u2019s work can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polipsych.com\/\" title=\"Ravi's blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his blog<\/a>;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/8801031\/sxsw\/movement_path.kml\" title=\"View it on Google Earth \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"my movement path\" src=\"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/8801031\/sxsw\/sxsw_patterns.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<strong><span>Social Functional MRI<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0the Phone is a Sensor Platform and we can finally create a \u201cVirtual Image Chamber\u201d using a framework called <a href=\"http:\/\/funf.media.mit.edu\/\" title=\"funf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">funf<\/a> and developed by the MIT, the data collected for this post (like the <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/8801031\/sxsw\/movement_path.kml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">movement path above<\/a>) is indeed the result of the test I conducted these days with the Journal App (a very basic android app to collect a large number of data from your phone\u2019s sensors) \u2013 <em>Leon Festingers 3.0<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li><strong><span>Big Data<\/span><\/strong>\u2026here you\u2019ll find\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/8801031\/sxsw\/gnostica.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>some highlights<\/span><\/a>\u00a0on Becky Wang&rsquo;s (aka @gnostica) talk \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/beckywangishere\/how-your-data-can-predict-the-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approaching predictions with #bigdata and neural networks<\/a>\u201d \u2013 for sure Big Data has been one very significant protagonist of the whole event (from Nike launching its FuelBand and the free APIs to a wide range of discussions on the topic);<\/li>\n<li><strong>Computational Intelligence<\/strong>\u00a0and the updates its creator (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/stephen_wolfram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@stephen_wolfram<\/a>) shared with us was a blast; in few words: WolframAlpha (WA) is going Pro and it\u2019s starting to take your data as input, WA processes your data, takes natural language queries \u00a0and provides a full report. It\u2019s a major step forwards in Stephen Wolfram\u2019s endless quest for computational knowledge \u2013 Wolfram is going Social (in its own way). I\u2019ll be back with another post on <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/W7ic522b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the talk I had the honor to have with Stephen<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/wordlift.insideout.io\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WordLift<\/a> 2.0 and our research on\u00a0<strong>semantic web technologies\u00a0<\/strong>for blogs;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Biohacking, Buddha and the Internet of Things <\/strong>it\u2019s clear the tech community is getting closer to a deep understanding of the self by leveraging the massive amount of data we\u2019re collecting on a large scale: humans behavioral patterns, cognitive processing and social phenomena became visible. What\u2019s next? Buddhist and spiritual freaks of all kind have been working for millennia on the <em>technologies of the mind<\/em> and it\u2019s time we get prepared for what I like to call the <strong>Internet Yoga<\/strong>. The purpose of a technology becomes central: what\u2019s behind the design of an application? How are we establishing connections with our peers? How do we connect one another with other leaving beings and with the environment? Does the stone age of our ego doom us or are we ready to sense the World and taking part of the flow? It\u2019s quite paradigmatic that the talks the touched these topics had an enormous success at SXSW &#8211; the lesson learned here is: <strong>Interconnectedness\u00a0<\/strong>(for buddhist) <strong>= Internet of Things\u00a0<\/strong>(for geek). One interesting link is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buddhistgeeks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.buddhistgeeks.com\/<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><strong>DRC \u2013 <\/strong>speaking about success this was the least successful talk, almost deserted and yet extremely crucial: how important is to buy conflict-free devices? How much are we all responsible of the outrageous violence happening in Congo in the last ten years? To find out more, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/thetruthtold.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/thetruthtold.com<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/streetbump.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">StreetBump<\/a> <\/strong>being Rome one of the cities where the major has been elected by campaigning in favor of smooth road driving I found this app quite essential and I\u2019m sure that if we all collect enough data on our roads conditions there will be \u00a0good chances Alemanno will resign (\u2026just kidding of course); for sure we can help the city improves our roads \u2013 this is Open Data 2.0: <em>get the data, analyze it and possibly act on it with your peers<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Data as Narrative and Spam 2.0 <\/strong>the good news here is that email spam is becoming a memory of the past, the bad news is that SPAM can completely change the perception of our digital streams; we assisted to various twitter SPAM attacks hitting real-time the hash tags of the panels, have a look at what happened <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/8801031\/sxsw\/timeMap.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> \u2013 this is emblematic and deserve our attention &#8211; the stream most of us rely on is extremely fragile and so are our digital identities (3 unknown friends are enough to take over your Facebook account);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><em>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m interested in things that have one foot in fantasy and one foot in reality&rdquo;<\/em> <strong>Bruce Sterling\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Google, Micosoft, Amazon, Apple and Facebook are all stacks of inclusive technologies<\/strong> and <strong>they<\/strong> <strong>will all die<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/bruces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@bruces<\/a>). Each stack includes operating systems, dedicated hardware (mobile and fixed, private and public) and a comprehensive series of cloud services to continuously extract cash, acquire private data (DNA included) and reselling it to the legitimate owners (<em>ourselves<\/em>) or 3<sup>rd<\/sup> parties. Sterling\u2019s conclusions are sharp as a knife \u2013 the purpose of all the stacks is wrong, they generate value transforming our private data in a products that eventually they resell to us \u2013<em> it\u2019s a vicious circle<\/em> and it will miserably dry itself out anytime in the next coming future. Stacks are fighting heavily to keep us inside their perverse logic and the upcoming generations will have big trouble understanding how possibly we had let these companies be so much in control of our lives;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>This post is dedicated to our marvelous hosts\u00a0<\/span><strong>Stephanie\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Davide<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 hospitality is a sign of great wisdom, letting 5 people coming from Europe spend a week in your apartment is a sign of kind holiness and I\u2019m very grateful for that \ud83d\ude09 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not easy to wrap up all the information I\u2019ve been absorbing these days in Austin during the biggest Tech Festival on Planet.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wl_entities_gutenberg":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[552,784,786,1097,1157,1185],"wl_entity_type":[10],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - 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