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 …
The attack of the geneticists is escalating!
Just in the previous issue of cyborg we presented the “concerns” (essentially: the maneuvers) within the European Union in favor of deregulating genetic modifications (mutations) in plants and animals.In the …
The Pandora Box
At the beginning of March it was revealed that the Ukrainian Ministry of Health had given an order, on the second day of the Russian operations, for the urgent destruction …
Pandemics and biological warfare: the Scylla and Charybdis of the 4th industrial revolution
The geographical distance between Wuhan and eastern Ukraine, and the temporal distance between March 2020, when the pandemic was declared, and February 2022, when the Russian invasion began, may seem …
The heart of a pig
At the beginning of the year, the pig heart transplant to a human was presented (and celebrated by ignorants and fools) as another techno-scientific miracle. Two months later, the recipient …
For an anti-history of genetics
Introduction How well does a physicist really know nature and its secrets? To what depth has a biologist understood the phenomena of life and the intricate pathways it follows? Naive …
The prophetic capitalism!
The famous Mr. Gates, considered the “most powerful doctor in the world,” we never regarded as anything more than a “press spokesperson” for general capital, especially for companies related to …