Alan N. Shapiro, Technologist and Futurist

Blog and text archive about media theory, science fiction theory, future design, social choreography, Computer Science 2.0, new media art, robots and androids, Star Trek, The Prisoner, Jean Baudrillard, Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, and Marshall McLuhan

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How can we redefine information in the age of social media?

February 4th, 2012 in Category: Information Society, Social Media

On January 24, 2012, I was a keynote speaker at the BOBCATSSS conference on Information Management in Amsterdam. The conference was organised by students from 3 universities of applied sciences, namely Hogeschool van Amsterdam (NL), Hanze Hogeschool Groningen (NL), and Stuttgart Media University (GER).
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Improving the Information Society Through Awareness of Languages

September 29th, 2011 in Category: Information Society, Language

This is about half of a paper that I presented at the ISEA2011 festival of new media, electronic and digital arts in Istanbul, Turkey on September 21, 2011.
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Multimedia Real-Time Live In-Play Sports Gambling

April 21st, 2011 in Category: Information Society, Sports Gambling

Sports gambling at the MGM Grand Casino-Hotel, Las Vegas
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Europe at War in Serbia and Kosovo

April 14th, 2010 in Category: Information Society, War & Peace

On March 24, 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization initiated a bombing campaign from 15,000 feet vectored towards designated targets inside the territory of Yugoslavia.
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Baseball in the Information Age

April 13th, 2010 in Category: Baseball, Information Society

I am sitting in the loge reserved section at a baseball stadium which has not yet been renamed to BankOne Ballpark, UMAX Coliseum, Qualcomm Stadium, 3Com Park, or Citi Field.