It is not symptomatic that the chair in front of the laptop, at the corner of the table, is empty. Nobody went to the restroom; the machine has its place, …
Mechanization of knowledge: common sense
Common sense as a mechanism for representing and directly justifying the natural world, forms, people, things and social relations is an old issue, primarily in philosophy. Such a sense/perception of …
robot-killer
The machine on the left in the photo is called SGR-1, it is built by South Korean Samsung, and it is the first “semi-autonomous” robot-soldier-killer. It has a machine gun …
About paradigm shift
The words paradigm change are used sparingly but steadily in recent decades in international commentary (or babble) when it comes to commenting on some of the changes (sometimes real and …
memory reload
The widespread use of smartphones and personal computers is rapidly weakening our species’ “natural” memory, various researchers claim, and they present this as something “bad.” Is it? In the process …
Soylent: fuel for the human machine
1. Turn on the kitchen burner to …2. Put 3 liters of water into a 4-liter pot.3. Place the pot on the kitchen burner you have already turned on.4. Add …
Courier – Internet: 1-0!
It is neither sophistry nor a joke, but an actual condition: the internet has overwhelmingly less bandwidth compared to traditional postal services. So much less that Google itself, when it …
Do machines live?
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. …