The “social networking”, its platforms and companies, have taken over the field of social relations from the outset; primarily in the developed world, but not exclusively there. Customs and traditions …
struggle for the rights of cyborgs? It exists, it exists…
In March 2013, the annual Emerge conference took place at Arizona State University (ASU), focusing on the future that technological development holds for humanity. That year’s conference title was “the …
DIYbio: self-improvement in the 21st century
One would assume that biohackers are a marginal cosmopolitan phenomenon, some “geeks” here and there. Indeed, numerically speaking, biohackers may be few in number, for now. Ideologically, however, biohacking indicates …
portable, wearable, subcutaneous: the body as a motherboard
When the Swedish Epicenter (“incubator / greenhouse” for more than 100 startups in Stockholm) began planting passive microchips (RFID: Radio Frequency IDentification) in its employees at the beginning of 2017, …
digital grey plague
One of the reasons fascism is gaining ground is because it is considered a closed case, a phenomenon that belongs to the domain of history and not a dynamic condition …
the cyberlibertarian ideology and digital commons
a manifesto for cyberspace… “Oh, you governments of the Industrial World, you who look like exhausted and obsolete giants of flesh and metal, I come from Cyberspace, the new home …
when the weapons of cyber-warfare “hit where it hurts”…
It’s an otherwise ordinary Friday when the daily operations of public and private services around the world are suddenly disrupted. The UK’s National Health Service advises patients not to visit …
precision medicine: the personalization of medicine
The term “precision medicine” is relatively new and was mainly highlighted after 2011 thanks to a report by the U.S. national research council, which focused on the need for a …
the great panoptic is (now) also esoptic
“Every time someone uses Google’s services, they participate in at least a dozen experiments.” This statement was made in 2012 by Google’s chief economist during a conference organized by the …
from online to onlife: engineering everything
History and Machines Can we perceive the ongoing parade of modern technological applications and wonders as something beyond a mere sum of “good and bad human inventions”? Can we perceive …
the armed parade : robot, work, ideology
In our parts, the issue is not burning. High unemployment but limited (compared to other places) use of information technology and its derivatives in the secondary sector. Internationally, however, it …
MOOCs and adaptive learning
In July 2011, Sebastian Thrun, who among other things is a professor at Stanford, published a short video on YouTube, announcing that he and a colleague of his, Peter Norvig, …