It is probably not one of the burning issues in our (digital) lives, but it is certainly a topic: which technological research and applications will be launched in 2016? The …
electronic departure and virtual worlds
Is any of this true? I mean, look at this. Look at this! A world built from imagination.Synthetic emotions in pill form. Psychological warfare operations in the form of advertising. …
algorithmic predictions
“Big data” are not (more precisely: must not be allowed to be) merely vast piles of data that clever machines will dig through each time, on demand, now extracting one …
Zika: a dangerous virus or something more?
Microcephaly is a disorder in the development of the nervous system, resulting in restricted brain (and skull) growth. It manifests either prenatally or after birth (in the baby’s first years) …
scientific “truths”
“Researchers lie” (not always!). If you make this kind of observation in front of even one researcher, from any field, you’ll get seriously bashed. It’s the fate of the “unskilled”: …
the worker-machine: governance, mechanics, ideology
Cybernetics and mechanical engineering …Sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, linguists, mathematicians, philosophers, are searching from different starting points, in the twilight of academia, for answers to the question: what is it that …
robot-games
“The children are playing.” Not only with tablets (on the left) but also with small-scale robots (in the middle). Children’s play will undoubtedly be a process of familiarization with domestic …
Synthetic biology and molecular programming: cells as a chain of (re-)production
Where programming meets biology Only 15 years have passed since the “distant” era (by today’s standards of technological advancement) when microprocessor manufacturing companies engaged in a race to increase the …
Ehang 184
Our opinion (for years now!) that land-based transportation is obsolete, since it is limited to the two dimensions of the ground while there is an (capitalistically) untapped 3rd dimension (the …
4th industrial revolution, work in progress: don’t miss it!!!
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 …