the brain: the new big trick The engagement, to an obsessive degree, with the human (and not only) genome within technoscientific laboratories around the world is rather well known. And …
The uncivilized
The artifact “Plimpton 322” (photograph), for 80 years in the collections of Columbia University, is at least 3,700 years old. It comes from Mesopotamia, from the territory of ancient (and …
Terminator and Blade Runner: building cyborgs and humans
Making Cyborgs, Making Humans – Of terminators and blade runners by Forest Pyle is a chapter from the book The Cybercultures Reader (2000, Routledge editions), and we have included its …
Unchain my heart, baby let me go!
Pacemaker: a small medical device implanted under the skin (or, if it’s the latest model, inside the heart) in a cardiac patient, whose mission is to send rhythmic electrical signals …
Road? Everywhere!
Feeling on their backs the hot breath of the energy paradigm shift in the capitalist world— and thus their own petro-decline— and with nothing to do with the mountains of …
Attention to nature
Whoever is tired of “natural” jellyfish may not be thrilled. Still, the robotic jellyfish from German company Festo was impressive. Perhaps it isn’t the most technically challenging build the firm …
the product is you!
The “social networking”, its platforms and companies, have taken over the field of social relations from the outset; primarily in the developed world, but not exclusively there. Customs and traditions …
Through the prayers…
If you show up “unprepared,” the great bouncer at the gates of the after-live will find a problem with your papers and you may end up in some limbo state, …
struggle for the rights of cyborgs? It exists, it exists…
In March 2013, the annual Emerge conference took place at Arizona State University (ASU), focusing on the future that technological development holds for humanity. That year’s conference title was “the …
Genetic improvement
Those interested in reflecting on the “ethical risks” of the 3rd and 4th industrial / technological revolutions (and there are many such people, “experts” or not) should go ahead: it …
DIYbio: self-improvement in the 21st century
One would assume that biohackers are a marginal cosmopolitan phenomenon, some “geeks” here and there. Indeed, numerically speaking, biohackers may be few in number, for now. Ideologically, however, biohacking indicates …