Technology in uniform

Even if someone hesitates to use the term “fascism” for the current, contemporary evolution of oligarchies toward absolutist regimes, they can no longer fail to see the application of Mussolini’s definition of fascism.

The improvement of the species…

“The world was shocked on November 25, 2018, when Chinese geneticist He Jiankui announced that he had used CRISPR technology to ‘correct’ the DNA of two embryos that had been conceived in vivo.”

the hygiene terror campaign, second phase…

They call her “queen of corruption,” among many other equally flattering nicknames. Regardless of your opinion about the fact that the “president of the European Commission” Ursula von der Leyen …

Prohibited for minors!

Remember the circulation restrictions during the hygiene campaign? It was not an exception but rather a test of the state of exception that will be repeated in the not-so-distant future for various reasons.

anxiety generators

When Lauren Antonoff, the newly appointed CEO of the Life360 tracking app, recently described the company as part of the “anxiety economy,” it sounded like a phrase that didn’t make …

Good grief!

The American Jim Farley, CEO of Ford, was alarmed: he visited various Chinese automotive industries and concluded that they will eliminate the American ones (only?;) if swift measures are not taken…

mechanical love, mechanical despair

When at the end of 2013 the movie Her by Spike Jonze was released in cinemas (with Joaquin Phoenix in the role of a lonely writer and the voice of …

Digital record

On March 7, 2021, the citizens of the Swiss state went to a referendum to accept or reject an “electronic identity”. 64.4% rejected the government’s idea. But the issue was not put in the drawer.

Speaking machines

A 15th century tale, originating from Alfonso de Madrigal, a prolific 15th century commentator who enjoyed creating stories with moving statues in the Middle Ages, wants Albertus Magnus, a real person, a Dominican monk, theologian and philosopher who lived two centuries before Alfonso, in the 13th century, to have managed to compose a whole man out of metal.

Electronic integrity?

Pierarakakis may have burst from his jealousy that he did not launch the first “AI minister against corruption” himself, and that, on the contrary, this (nationally) annoying state in the north called Albania took the lead.