The estimated size of the digital universe by the end of 2020, according to the World Economic Forum, will be 44 zettabytes (44 quintillion bytes); 40 times more bytes than …
award for genetic cutting and sewing
Crispr / cas9 technology can be dangerous. But for the Nobel Prize committee, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna, inventors of the method, deserved this year’s “Nobel Prize in Chemistry”. …
Human-X: the next generation
New evidence shows that modifying human embryos brings doom to DNA. Three studies conclude that the CRISPR gene-editing method is not safe. A few months ago, in June 2020, the …
High tech sharpening
Last Saturday, two systemic media outlets, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, published a u.s department of state order to electronic chip manufacturers: it is forbidden to sell to chinese …
predictive algorithms
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 …