32 important Digital Stories: the best of the site’s first years, together with many new texts. The book is in Bulgarian.More about the book →
Additional links for every chapter
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The story of Digital Stories on the show Small Stories (Bulgarian National Television): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93PKWkvH2-Q
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LatticeFlow, a software solution built in Sofia that will make the technology safer
More opinions on ChatGPT, the big hero of the new age:
- Is it just an extremely expensive parrot? The different view of the philosopher Mariyan Gotsev
- Why artificial intelligence remains naturally unintelligent: the opinion of Vladimir Petkov (Kaladan)
- Why it is here to make our lives easier: the programmer Hristo Tomov
- The human programmer will be needed for at least 10 more years, says Mihail Panayotov
- See what thoughts “read” by artificial intelligence look like
- How and why did we unlearn reading long texts?
- Is salvation in a movement called “information minimalism”?
- What does all the data Google keeps about you look like?
- What does it “think” about you? How old are you? What are your hobbies? Did it guess right?
- Where were you at every moment Google tracked your location?
- What does all the information Facebook has gathered about you look like?
- How do recommendation algorithms work, from the technology's point of view?
- What does Vu Nguyen think about the future of news and the way we will get our information?
- Prof. Julita Vasileva is a technology researcher with more than 30 years of experience and a serious number of publications in renowned journals. What are her forecasts for the future of the web?
- How does AI “paint” some of the most popular Bulgarian poems?
- How do systems that generate images from a description work?
- How will they change art? The view of the visual artist Ivaylo Petrov
The stories of some of the heroes of the modern internet:
- Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript
- Jason Citron of Discord
- Stewart Butterfield, Slack
- Geoffrey Hinton, the “godfather” of artificial intelligence
- The three “fathers” of YouTube
- The contested “Uncle Bob” Martin
- Linus Torvalds
- Vitalik Buterin
- Gary Kildall
- Sundar Pichai
- Matt Mullenweg
- What matters in the world of startups, and what are the key terms?
- What is it like to build a startup in Bulgaria that today dominates globally in a field like electric vehicle charging infrastructure?
Try it yourself! A few free apps that show how far technology has come:
- Generate an image from a description
- Or here, where the result will be completely different
- Generate text
- “Talk” to artificial intelligence
- Watch MrBeast's unconventional videos
- His tree-planting campaign
- The incredible story of Joe Rogan, the creator of the modern podcast
- The story of his Bulgarian colleague, the “superhuman” Georgi Nenov
- How, on the internet, do not!news become news?
- How the science fiction writer Nikolay Tellalov managed to sketch the future of these technologies in an unconventional interview told through stories
And how did the algorithm try to give those same answers?
- Experiment: can algorithms write instead of us?
- And have they learned to translate better than humans?
- Meet Miquela
- Soul Machines, the company that promises to bring us realistic robots
- Play Dwarf Fortress!
- See how far the project's sales campaign has come
- If robotic romance is not for you, here is a classic romantic story…
- And one more, beyond time…
- A detailed explanation of the Poincaré conjecture and Perelman's solution
- What does the future look like according to science? The view of the futurologist Assoc. Prof. Mariana Todorova
- China's social credit system, the system that shows a frightening future
- Is it time for resistance? The story of Guy Fawkes, the symbol of Anonymous
- Anonymous or troll? When online freedom means standing by your name, and when it means a mask
- Try how the artificial intelligence Tanbih, the fake news hunter, works
- More on how blockchain works and where its potential applications are
- What is an NFT, or… money for nothing?
- The story of another genius of the crypto world: the creator of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin
- Need a little rest from the digital, with a classic analog story about a little prince that will always move people?
- Are there future saints on Facebook? What does progress in technology look like from the point of view of the priest Father Nikolay Georgiev?
- What would happen if… the algorithms came to power?
- Will autonomous vehicles be here soon?
- When does the network turn into a machine for inequality?
- More about Optimus, the robot Musk is building to enter every home
- The most interesting things about his Neuralink brain-computer interface project
- The story of Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress, who let everyone have a website
- Who is Robert Martin: Uncle Bob, or the underrated Moses of programmers?
- Peek into McAfee's very curious Twitter profile
- What if sometimes… immortality is undesirable? Steve Jobs has risen!
- What is the notorious Dunning-Kruger effect?
- You will find more of the flat-earthers' arguments on this YouTube channel
- Here is how the Voyager message can be decoded with today's programming languages
- Some of the images taken by the mission
- All the images from the Golden Record
- And here, its entire contents
- How does science see the idea of immortality? An interview with Assoc. Prof. Milena Georgieva, molecular biologist
- The list of animal species cloned so far
- The writer Ivo Ivanov on whether we will ever manage to replicate the human brain
- When can a friendship continue beyond death? The story of five real friends and their five-year ritual
- More from Ivan Popov's archive online
- A survey!
- What do you think about everything you have read so far?
- Which texts impressed you?
- How should the project continue?
- Which is your digital story? The one that truly moved you and deserves to be told to more people?