Intelligence Amplification over Web

Yesterday I bought a copy of Richard Dooling's "Rapture For The Geeks:When AI outsmarts IQ".This book discusses about technological singularity which is one of my topics of interest.The idea of machine intelligence surpassing that of their human creators seemed interesting to me when I first saw Terminator back in school days.The term technological singularity was not known to me then.I have not yet completed reading Mr. Dooling's book but the discussion on Intelligence Amplification in context of Web 2.0 helped me to understand the term in newer and better way.

Dismal Week ,Few Interesting Findings

This week was a rather dismal one.Project issues/problems.Bad news from the financial markets.Future of IT industry looks uncertain and gloomy.Today another massive terrorist attack in Pakistan.God knows how many seals are still left to be opened.
So bored with all these bad news,movie channels repeating same old stuff I started random search using Google and some blog directories(the greatest cognitive tools I have found till date)

Silver(Moon)Light - Cross platform CLR

In today's Kolkata .NET User Group we had a very good discussion on Silverlight the latest User Experience technology launched by Microsoft.This is a cross browser and cross platform plugin to deliver rich media content and enhanced interaction capability to the users over web.In very simple terms we can think of this as something like a Adobe Flash Player.

Steve Jobs and Calligraphy

Today we had a session on "Windows Presentation Foundation" and "Silverlight" as part of the monthly Kolkata .NET User Group meet.While discussing about various graphics related stuff and fonts somebody pointed out about Steve Jobs contribution about the fonts in PC based software and his inclination on calligraphy.I was not at all aware about this.So coming back home first thing I did was googling with Steve Jobs and Calligraphy.