Amazing presentation of the possible future of videogames and the great impact this will have on our lives. The final part of the presentation is a little bit scary (1984 style of scary) but I am the first one to recognize that the scenario he present is extremely likely.

http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/DICE-2010-Design-Outside-the-Box-Presentation/

If you are interested in the state of the linux kernel watch this video from Linuxcon where Linus and his main lieutenants talk in a round table:

http://www.techcast.com/events/linuxcon/roundtable/

Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web. It is expected to be launched later this year.

As I am a regular Google Reader user, and known how great google can make these services, I can only dream on the great possibilities which Wave can bring. Honestly, I don't think it will replace email (maybe just extend it in some manner) but I honestly think that wave will centralize blogs, instant messaging, wikis, forumns and micro-blogging. Each one of these technologies will exist independently, but to those which use Wave, all will be centralized. Sounds promissing ;)

This is a video from Stephen Wolfram explaining his book, A New Kind of Science. Apart for the genius talk that I honestly do not understand, it present a very interesting paradigm containing the following properties:

• Very simple programs can generate very complex results.
• This complexity can be on the same order of very complex programs.
• Most science until today has been looking at the result (which is complex) and then try to derive a model.
• Why not build a catalog of models, and then search where these models can fit in reality.

Just giving a crude comparison. The difference is somewhat like this: Normal science, you see the human body and you try understand what part of DNA does something. New Kind of science will build a catalog of the combinations simple strings of DNA produce. As most complexity is found in simple string, you can then see the properties present in the catalog and then say what are applicable to the human body. It is kind of the "inverse of reverse engineering". You work is simpler and you are able to find the build blocks. Not try to reverse engineer a very complex system.