What is artificial intelligence? What is machine learning? Is it possible that the “average person” can be fooled by modern machines, considering them “humans”? In 1950, Alan Turing, one of …
Organic computers
How would you feel if some part of your computer’s or phone’s processor was… hmmmm… in some sense “alive”? Scientific fantasy? Or perhaps the spread of fake news? In the …
Bill Gates’ radical menu for food systems: ultra-processed foods, patents, monocultures
If Bill Gates gets his way, food in the future will look very little like what exists on our plates today. Gates and his partners in the agricultural industry propose …
Salvation is beneficial…
Some of you might remember it as one of the two Japanese companies that manufactured photographic film. It is Fujifilm (the other one was Kodak). This imaging technology has been …
Bayer, Monsanto and Big Data: Who will control our food system in the era of digital agriculture and major mergers?
With the upcoming mega-merger between Bayer and Monsanto and the rise of digital agriculture and data-driven farming, our agricultural system is on the verge of a paradigm shift. According to …
Flying old bangers
The technology of flying, autonomous, electric vehicles is ready or almost ready. And here, as in many other sectors, Chinese capitalism has the lead: after years of testing, Chinese-made “flying …
The seeds of despair
Bayer. Perhaps the largest chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology company in the world, leading in every sector it operates. Monsanto. Perhaps the largest agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology company in the world, responsible …
Clothes complete the perceptions
The suit in the above photograph looks like diving equipment. No: it is advertised as the essential accessory for the enjoyable entrance into the “metaverse”. With 90 sensors/electrodes it ensures …
Green transition… towards dystopia
Dark years are coming. Not because “our future has much drought,” but because the drought now spreads to the past too – which is the source of every future. Freedom …
There are some spare change….
I see this is the job China is doing… If you want to monitor every transaction, you can only do this through a central bank digital currency… If you want …
data, more data: surveillance and punishment in everyday life
Surveillance has been transformed from an element of governance into governance itself. It is simultaneously government (system) and governability (self-awareness and cooperation, where the imprisoned becomes the guardian of himself). …
YOU SHALL NOT pass…
FuelPass, PowerPass, and soon FoodPass. Citizens of western societies seem to gradually have to get used to the idea that from now on they will need to chase the next …