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 …
Human plus (human, very human…)
It could be considered as yet another expression of technofetishism. It could be considered a marginal phenomenon, one of many in postmodern times. It could, in extreme manifestations, be considered …
primary accumulation
23andMe is a biotechnology company. Its name comes from the 23 pairs of chromosomes in human cells. Although there are many companies offering personalized DNA sequencing, the related services are …
How did those living in the late 19th and early 20th centuries imagine the year 2000?
The strong impressions from the technical inventions and applications until then shaped the material of the imagination of those who had the time and inclination to predict the future. From …
timer
Time (and our sense of it) is a precious matter – yet it has long been expropriated by the techniques of its measurement. Through unconscious processes, the minutes once, and …
Hacking as an ideology
O Hacker, where art thou? Speaking of hacking, we are referring to what has become established as black hat hacking. For those who may not know, within the “community” of …
“robotic scientist”
The person depicted is Isaac Newton. Now, an algorithm named “Sir Isaac” in his honor is, according to its creators, a small but decisive step toward the “robot scientist.” The …