The same year that Norbert Wiener published his treatise on the “human use of human beings,” in 1950, another exceptional figure in the history of computer science, Alan Turing, posed …
drone fishing
Have you ever wondered how much a drone costs? The market is now so developed, and there is such a wide variety of models, that anyone can purchase a reliable …
The pregnancy of the cyborg
…Here I want to interject an important element: words like Life, Purpose, and Soul are completely unsuitable in pure scientific thinking. These terms acquired their meaning because we recognize the …
“prevention of abnormalities”
Last February, the British parliament passed a law approving corrective genetic interventions in egg DNA, using DNA segments from another woman’s eggs. The birth of children from “three parents” (the …
Nanotechnologies: Visions under the microscope
Nanometer (nm) = one billionth of a meter. To begin to grasp this order of magnitude, we must agree that it refers to objects invisible to the “naked” human eye. …
home helpers
The humanoid robot in the photo cooks (among other things). But there’s no reason to worry: it won’t replace “mom,” and it won’t fill lunchboxes… Home robotic machines are one …
Do androids play electric games?
About the game in general Play is always an activity. Even when it presupposes high levels of abstract ability, it simultaneously demands the externalization of meaning through a series of …
uninterrupted transport
This is a fundamental function of technology: to replace living labour. To throw workers onto the street, that is, in order to keep the working class disciplined. The excerpt below …
Technology, total war and creative destruction
An illusion hovers over the first world, that war is somewhere else, in spatial and temporal terms. It happens on the fringes of civilization and does not concern “our world” …
robotic self-organization
From a technological and construction perspective, it is something remarkable. The robotic ants are the work of one of the leading companies in research and application of cutting-edge technologies: the …
Are consciousness and memory technoscientific “objects”?
The question in the title now seems foolish or pointless. Of course what has historically been called “consciousness” is a techno-scientific object of analysis and research! For decades now. Even …
automatic execution
The vehicle in the image could be a small tank. And indeed it is. With a difference. It is robotic and completely autonomous. “Completely autonomous” means that it is guided …