*Shocked* I got after watching the documentary entitled Money as Debt (available in several languages). If only half of the story is true, this could explain what’s currently happening in the global economy system, with a crack which surpasses the one on 1929.

Something that called my attention: Switzerland is in the middle of all this mess, quietly and passing unnoticed…

The documentary is freely available on the internet. Here you are:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279

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During the last Leipzig Games Convention, Sony presented some game titles in advance which, I think, set the trend for a new games generation. I personally endorse this decision (which already started other game companies like Nintendo with its Wii) to create new playing experiences instead of using the so boring shot-them-up scheme (both in 1st and 3rd person).

Of all the videos put in the PlayStation Store web, the most attracting to me was the trailer of EyePet.

Eyepet, is, of course, a virtual pet. It only exists within your TV and your PS3. You can touch it (her?), stroke it, change its look, hairdress, etc. or just create some toy for it (by drawing it on a card) and see how she plays with it.

In a previous post about the singularity, I wrote that one of the signs of the coming of singularity is the mix of real and virtual things, like this example.

In short, EyePet es a very interesting experiment of augmented reality (I’ll write about some day). I suggest you to watch the video.

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Redes is a scientific divulgative program emitted in Spain, and driven by Eduard Punset. The 2nd to last was about the Technological Singularity. This term refers to a point in which tecnology and biological human being as we know will be one and practically indistinguishable: Virtual and Real will merge and become fully interconnencted. It won’t be like in “The Matrix”. In “The Matrix” the virtual world was not part of the reality, whilst in the Singularity, the virtual world will become part of the real one.

One of its prophets is Ray Kurzweil, inventor of Kurzweil sound synthetizers among other things.

Metaverses, Virtual HyperRealities, Naomachines integrated with our minds, expanding it and conecting it, making mental backups, etc. are just some of the Kurzweil’s predictions, who also warns the skepticals: The Singularity is called that way because, beyond some point (which seems to have happened already), technology evolves in an exponential way, which contradicts our intuition which works in a lineal fashion. As an example, if after 5 years we could make 10 times faster computers, after 10 years we could create 100 times faster (not just 20 times faster) ones. This makes Singularity something chaotic and unpredictable.

If you are interested in this topic, have a look on this video:

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Politicians are supposed to be quiet and even to talk with people having different points of view.
Here we have conservative Esperanza Aguirre (president of Madrid province, Spain) facing up manifestants in a very different manner (emitted on CNN+)

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An advise for americans (due to its simplicity), and sooner for europeans. Comic actors play a funny take, Don’t buy things you can’t afford.

And here, in Spain, we still have The Magic Kings the Three Wise Men, on Jan the 6th… (Yes, Santa Claus, the revenge of consumerism).

Via meneame

Happy 2007.

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