I see this is the job China is doing… If you want to monitor every transaction, you can only do this through a central bank digital currency… If you want …
data, more data: surveillance and punishment in everyday life
Surveillance has been transformed from an element of governance into governance itself. It is simultaneously government (system) and governability (self-awareness and cooperation, where the imprisoned becomes the guardian of himself). …
YOU SHALL NOT pass…
FuelPass, PowerPass, and soon FoodPass. Citizens of western societies seem to gradually have to get used to the idea that from now on they will need to chase the next …
The mechanics of the public: Big Data in parliament
In its complaint, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) describes how, with a data sample obtained from Kochava, it was possible to identify a device that visited a women’s reproductive health …
Collapse of the relationship
It could be something from “the strange world.” It doesn’t seem to be a social trend with majority prospects yet. Or, at least, Akihido Kondo is a pioneer within a …
Neurocolonization
We have nanobots that … connect our neocortex to a synthetic neocortex in the cloud… Thought will become … a hybrid of biology and non-biology… Paranoid or not prophets You …
AI emotions
Her is a 2013 film that is formally categorized as “science fiction” but perhaps should be considered technologically dystopian. The protagonist Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) develops an intense emotional, bodiless …
The body as a datacenter: data storage and processing in DNA
According to experts, we have a serious problem that needs to be addressed soon: the volume of data is continuously increasing, to a point where the infrastructures for its mass …
Robotic megastructures
So far, three-dimensional printers have been associated with the construction of small-sized objects; although such techniques are also being developed for house construction. Quite “ahead” in the field of robotics, …
Digital currencies, algorithmic prisons
When the mandatory use of “plastic money” for 30% of the taxable amount of everyone was imposed (in Greece), the justification was “to combat tax evasion”: the idea that monetary …
Mutated forests
The idea is relatively old: our forests have a problem, natural trees are problematic, so let’s replace them with genetically engineered… What problem did the watchful eye of biotechnologists detect …