The canadian company bluedot, founded in 2013, offers communicable disease mapping services. According to founder Kamran Khan, the sars pandemic in 2002-04 was the reason for starting this business. This …
what a world!
Under no circumstances would we recommend… netflix to anyone! Or anything like that. (Some book yes…) But on the occasion of the documentary “the social dilemma”, where various “repentant” executives / inventors of applications and technologies that have proven to be huge commercial successes and cultural / intellectual / moral hurricanes (related to antisocial media) become accusers of their own works, consider this: Would you ever trust a fetishist (of technology, religion, commodity) even if he or she sincerely wanted to set you free from a fetishism?
Naked death: dancing to the rhythms of the state Danse Macabre
Death in the twentieth century has become a taboo…it has replaced sex as the quintessential forbidden subject. Philippe Ariès The image of death seems to be omnipresent in contemporary Western …
From mutations to “reprogramming”: the breakthrough of genetic engineering
Mutations may occur in all kinds of organisms randomly from the beginning of the world. But designed mutations, the diamond in the crown of biotechnologies in recent decades, quickly became …
constructions of realities.
How easy is it for everyone to create their own reality? However easy it used to be in the past, the possibilities offered by the new technologies of the 4th industrial revolution make it even easier – and more “fun”. As the means change and evolve, the end remains the same; to create and maintain ideologies. Here are two of the many tools that can be used by anyone to create “fake news” and / or “fake faces”.
fuck the algorithm
In mid-August, thousands of high school students rallied in front of the education ministry of Her Majesty’s government. It deserves be considered the second authentic demonstration against the “brave new …
The puppies of Pavlok
Social media is the place par excellence for “shocking” advertisements, let alone in the era of generalized quarantine where online consumers are ready to invest in any product that promises …
dog plus
Augmented-reality glasses for dogs? Yes. The U.S. Army and its research arms are not short on ideas. In their view, dogs with “augmented vision capabilities,” combined with their natural sense …
Labor is the target.
The measures taken (and will be taken) on the occasion of the pandemic have a huge impact on the economy in general and the labor market in particular. Rhetoric has it that in order lives to be saved, the economy must be sacrificed. “Human life above profits!” is the slogan; and concerns about whether states have anti-capitalist tendencies to protect us are manifested in the cafes of the friends of the working class. Unable to find an explanation for the “turn of states against their interests and profits”, they accept this turn as a contradiction and get rid of it; to get confused again afterwards, trying to criticize its management, asking for more protection measures and bonuses.
Neuralink
You may easily be about a century behind. He is certainly not a successful businessman either, but that’s how he is considered (the parallel realities, you see!). He stands very …
The monopoly of truth
It is common in the so-called “scientific circles” that when an opinion has influence over the majority (an influence that is never spontaneous but always constructed within the ‘scientific institutions’) …