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The importance of being Creative Commons
TweetA few years ago, I made a drawing called King of Midlands: Disturbed. I published it on deviantArt with this description, under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0...
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A response to Scaruffi's Millennium Questions
TweetThis is an attempt to respond to the 10 Millennium Questions posed by Piero Scaruffi on his last blog post. Be advised, I shall not succeed. But I shall have fun trying.I took the liberty of...
View ArticleThe scorpion and the frog
Tweet"One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted a change. So he set out on a journey through the forests and hills. He climbed over rocks and under...
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List of 200 highest grossing films of all time (adjusted for inflation)
TweetI have always been curious about films and their impact on society. There are many interesting measures and lots of data that one can look up: one above all is the list of highest grossing films...
View ArticleOpen message to Salman Khan and the Nobel committee
TweetThe most awesome school in the world: http://www.khanacademy.org Help with translations and subtitles: http://federicopistono.org/videoMusic: WEEKENDS!!! (feat. Sirah) - Skrillex
View ArticleInternet 1 - Censorship 0. Your move.
TweetAs you probably know, yesterday was the day of the great Internet blackout, in protest of the upcoming SOPA and PIPA legislations, which instead of protecting the rights of authors and artists,...
View ArticleWorld-Changing Ideas 2012, my letter to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Tweet Last week, Bill Gates previewed his fourth annual letter and invites students around the world to submit their own letters addressing what they think is the world's most pressing issue. Students...
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Berserk Golden Age Arc I: The Egg of the King (2012) film review
TweetFew stories can capture your mind and soul in a visceral way from the beginning, and never leave you. Berserk is one of them.Written and illustrated by the legendary manga artist Kentaro Miura,...
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Facing death
TweetI was in a pretty bad car accident last night. I should say from the start that nobody was seriously injured. The two girls in the front (driver and passenger) are fine. I was in the back, all I...
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Isaac Asimov - The Last Question
TweetIsaac Asimov was the most prolific science fiction author, and one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and...
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(mis)adventures of a CrowdFunding Campaign
Tweet(mis)adventures of a CrowdFunding Campaign, a true story, illustrated and painfully experienced by Federico Pistono
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Self-portrait
TweetSelf-portrait, pencil, photographed and retouched on PS CS6.Download full-res/buy print (if you're into that).
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How Should Humanity Steer the Future? Social Evolution Through Massively...
TweetI entered a Scientific American contest with an essay titled "Social Evolution Through Massively Decentralised Distributed Resilient Networks" on How Should Humanity Steer the Future. Help me win...
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Unsung Heroes, Unintentional Heroes
TweetI've yet to fully grasp the significance of what took place last night. I understand rationally what happened. I can recall quite clearly the events that came about. I can remember the details,...
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What if everybody got free cash? Results from real-world experiments might...
TweetWhat if everybody received every month enough money to live by? Will society collapse? Will we all become slackers? Myths and facts about Unconditional Basic Income, with analysis from a real...
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How a nerdy kid from nowhere self-published a best-seller and got noticed by...
TweetReading time: 12 minutes.Last week Larry Page, the CEO of one of the largest corporations in the world, and possibly one of the most powerful people on the planet, released an interview with the...
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Publishing my first novel, "A Tale of Two Futures"
TweetAlmost two years in the making. Finally finished my first novel. This is my Christmas present for you. What will the future look like, and what can you do to change it? A Tale of Two Futures is a...
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Science Proves the Existence of God... or Not
Tweet On Dec. 26, 2014 an opinion piece appeared in the Wall Street Journal titled “Science Increasingly makes the case for God.” As it happens with these things, it went viral. Since then, many...
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Gift Society and Basic Income, Burning Man Documentary
TweetShort documentary on the culture of Burning Man, featuring interviews with Federico Pistono, Lara Edge, Sean Cusack, Mark W Swizee, Dan Harder, Bernhard Popovic, Nino Bino, Andreas Ribarits, and...
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XPRIZE Visioneering: Future of Work
TweetEach year, brilliant scientists, philanthropists, heads of innovation, and corporate leaders gather for a multi-day Visioneering workshop to brainstorm, debate, and prioritize which of the world's...
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VISIONEERS, or how to stop complaining and start fixing global problems
TweetIt's not everyday that you get to see the future happening right before your eyes. We're so focused on the day to day, paralyzed by uninformative and amygdala-stimulating news reports, that we...
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Billionaire Johann Rupert Worried by AI and Unemployment, Urges People to...
TweetMulti-Billionaire Johann Rupert, CEO of luxury giant Richemont takes a stance against the growing wealth gap, calling it 'unfair' and 'unsustainable', and urges people to read my book "Robots Will...
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VidCon: Motivation. Inspiration. Fascination.
TweetHow would you describe your experience of in three words? It's a question that I find myself asking more frequently, both to myself and to other people, and at every iteration the interest and the...
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On Trust
TweetTrust. It's a strange feeling.Being trusting of others is my default state. I assume people are generally OK, and that they act in selfish or in deliberately evil manners only out of necessity or...
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Announcing a New Project: Eternally Curious
TweetGood news, everyone! I've been meaning to do this for at least five years, and today I'm so happy to finally announce it to the world. It's a new video series of highly curated and well-produced...
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Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Syria and Europe
TweetI am receiving tons of messages about my last social media posts on the crisis in Syria, the response of the various states (European or not), the responsibilities and the consequences.I am...
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How to Create a Malevolent Artificial Intelligence
TweetFor those of you who have been following my work, it should come as no surprise that I have an ambivalent view of technology.Technology is arguably the predominant reason that we live safer,...
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On the Importance of Pattern Recognition
TweetI’ve been thinking a lot lately. I observe myself staring into the void, or looking at people’s faces, movements, behaviors. I listen to their words, and I have a strange and distant feeling of...
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