What is cyberspace? Can one see it? Determine it? Measure it? The question may seem provocatively commonplace, yet the answer appears to be difficult. According to the official interpretation one …
The two sides of social networking
Social media is a virtual field of sociality, where social time is converted into digital space. A virtual, digital space where millions of users deposit pieces of their daily activity, …
Human plus (human, very human…)
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
cyberterritorial history
The evolution of cyberspace is both a quantitative and qualitative perspective that has followed the course of the Internet and network and computer technology almost faithfully. In 1991 the creation …
Soylent: fuel for the human machine
1. Turn on the kitchen burner to …2. Put 3 liters of water into a 4-liter pot.3. Place the pot on the kitchen burner you have already turned on.4. Add …
Do machines live?
The same year that Norbert Wiener published his treatise on the “human use of human beings,” in 1950, another exceptional figure in the history of computer science, Alan Turing, posed …
The pregnancy of the cyborg
…Here I want to interject an important element: words like Life, Purpose, and Soul are completely unsuitable in pure scientific thinking. These terms acquired their meaning because we recognize the …