The term 4th industrial revolution should not have been unfamiliar to specialists. But the recent gathering of the world’s “lords” in the Swiss Davos (after their invitees: the Greek prime …
biometric cinema
DiCaprio as Hugh Glass in “The Revenant” by Alejandro Inarritu. Before you saw the film (if you did), others had already seen it. The production company, 20th Century Fox, held …
the politics in dna
… In the past, political scientists were certain that social forces – among them, as the most significant, parents and the immediate environment during childhood – strongly influenced whether people …
workplace homicide;
While he was part of a team of technicians/developers at the Volkswagen car factory in Baunatal, 100 km north of Frankfurt, the stationary parts-selection and handling robot moved past, outside …
mechanic sex appeal
Man becomes, in a way, the sexual organ of the world of machines, like the bee in the plant world, allowing it to reproduce and develop new forms. The mechanical …
cyber-love
The 2015 English psycho-thriller film Ex Machina (not released in Greece), by Alex Garland, tells the story of programmer Caleb Smith, who is invited to the home of his eccentric …
furrows
Gullies of this kind, on craters or on slopes of the surface of Mars, convinced NASA scientists that water flows there. The related announcement has once again fueled fantasies about …
pepper
The robot named Pepper, a creation of the company SoftBank Mobile, is the most recent achievement in robotics in the field of “home services”. Pepper is designed to coexist with …
The cybernetic space machine
What is cyberspace? Can one see it? Determine it? Measure it? The question may seem provocatively commonplace, yet the answer appears to be difficult. According to the official interpretation one …
vaccine for radioactivity
The sign on the barrels is unmistakable: radioactive waste. The promise of nuclear energy has been plagued by leaks for decades. No more. And not for the better… A multidisciplinary …
The two sides of social networking
Social media is a virtual field of sociality, where social time is converted into digital space. A virtual, digital space where millions of users deposit pieces of their daily activity, …
liquid circuit
It is highly unlikely that you can understand what the image shows, and it is even more unlikely that you would think something like this could be possible. The photo …