You don’t want to improve your memory (whether neuroscientists figure out how it works or not); you don’t want to improve the “data processing” of your thinking; nor the speed …
Everything is a lie…
If you had any anxiety (and why wouldn’t you?), some anguish about what is happening with the Universe (at least that which cosmologists and astrologers swear is “existent”), then the …
Public order and safety
The technology festival in Hanover is one of the largest in the world. And probably the largest in Europe. It plays the role that the legendary “Great Exhibition of the …
Suitcases… and kisses to mom!
It is a sign of the times. The last time the philosophy of “migration to other planets” went mainstream was when the Americans globally showcased their moon landing. The “Apollo” …
The scientific epic
Anyone who thinks (or will come to think in the future) that the innovative recipe for genetic editing called Crispr/Cas-9 (see Cyborg 8: genetic cut-and-sew) is a pure product of …
It’s not what you think
It’s not a hand that was slightly injured somewhere. It’s a hand after the implantation of a microchip half the size of a toothpick, via a procedure that takes less …
Quantum
Quantum computers are closer than we think – certainly close enough that we risk being left out of the (much-touted) huge technological/governmental revolution they will bring. They are, of course, …
The robot as a toy
Forget Barbie!!! She may have reproduced mainstream standards for girls, but she’s a 20th-century relic. The future belongs to the “next generation” – and my friend Cayla is a good …
digital grey plague
One of the reasons fascism is gaining ground is because it is considered a closed case, a phenomenon that belongs to the domain of history and not a dynamic condition …
DNA sequencer
It may look like a large photocopier, but it’s not. According to its specifications, Illumina’s HiSeq X machine can produce the complete sequence of 16 human genomes in every 3-day …
the cyberlibertarian ideology and digital commons
a manifesto for cyberspace… “Oh, you governments of the Industrial World, you who look like exhausted and obsolete giants of flesh and metal, I come from Cyberspace, the new home …
health data
The company Verily Life Sciences emerged from the renaming of Google Life Sciences in late 2015. In addition to its central participation in the Precision Medicine Initiative, Verily is also …