It could be considered as yet another expression of technofetishism. It could be considered a marginal phenomenon, one of many in postmodern times. It could, in extreme manifestations, be considered …
primary accumulation
23andMe is a biotechnology company. Its name comes from the 23 pairs of chromosomes in human cells. Although there are many companies offering personalized DNA sequencing, the related services are …
How did those living in the late 19th and early 20th centuries imagine the year 2000?
The strong impressions from the technical inventions and applications until then shaped the material of the imagination of those who had the time and inclination to predict the future. From …
timer
Time (and our sense of it) is a precious matter – yet it has long been expropriated by the techniques of its measurement. Through unconscious processes, the minutes once, and …
Hacking as an ideology
O Hacker, where art thou? Speaking of hacking, we are referring to what has become established as black hat hacking. For those who may not know, within the “community” of …
“robotic scientist”
The person depicted is Isaac Newton. Now, an algorithm named “Sir Isaac” in his honor is, according to its creators, a small but decisive step toward the “robot scientist.” The …
NEIL
NEIL (Never Ending Image Learning) has been running at Carnegie Mellon University in the US since July 2013, 24 hours a day. Guided by computer vision algorithms, it scans millions …
the new member of the board of directors
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 …