Right now you have a movie playing in your head. It’s an incredible movie with multiple pieces. It’s three-dimensional, with multi-channel sound for whatever you see and hear at this …
neuroengineering: the gears of mechanical consciousness
4 years ago (June 2015, cyborg #3) we asked whether consciousness and memory are techno-scientific objects. The answer is “yes” – not strange at all. Meanwhile, the social (and political) …
Integrity Initiative: the digital front of the 4th world war
Fife is one of Scotland’s counties, located on its eastern coast. Scotland is a beautiful country, rich in history and full of sights. Fife is no exception, and perhaps the …
Citius, Altius, Fortius… every day, all day… (health as continuous upgrading)
The invasion of hygiene over the past decades has been sweeping, encountering minimal resistance and making its appearance even under the guise of an alternativism that often indulges in hygienic …
engineering of everything: the atmosphere…
The American president may be mocked, asking for the return of “global warming” on the days (at the end of last January) when polar (literally) temperatures hit the northern and …
do electric whales dream of death?
The “blue whale”, if we believe the etymology of the moral panic it caused, was an online challenge game for teenagers, in which the goal for the “players” was to …
the worker and the queen: epigenetics on dna determinism
… The fundamental belief called genetic determinism essentially means that our lives, which are defined as the physical, biological and emotional characteristics of our behavior, are fully controlled by our …
blockchain: the protocol of the gods
If we had to name a key and critical characteristic of human relationships, it would certainly be trust. And surely no introduction is needed regarding its importance and criticality. However, …
the archaeology of cyberspace: the cry of Pandora
The cyberspace did not leap fully armed from the head of the informatics Leviathan. It was constructed, developed, and infiltrated every field of human activity in a methodical and by …
artificial intelligence: the Golem of the 4th industrial revolution
You might remember it, or maybe not. There is a method in statistics, quite simple and widespread, so much so that it is often taught even in high school. It …
singularity: technological fetishism and political economy in the 21st century
The concept of the “singularity” refers to the moment when technological evolution will result in producing an artificial super-intelligence, which will bring about unimaginable changes in human civilization. Some futurologists, …
quantum computers: the empire of computations
when the cat left the box… The Aristotelian (hence philosophical) dichotomy of either exists / does not exist, and its variation true / false, was mathematized during the 19th century …