Amazon’s well-known chinese competitor, alibaba, introduced its marketable cloud, primarily for use within china, in 2009. In the middle of last year it started offering cloud services for commercial use …
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 digitization of begging
What prospect does a beggar have in a society that makes extensive use of digital communication media? It is a question you would never ask yourself; yet it crossed the …
Instant Response
What would the (capitalist) world be like in the 21st century if companies didn’t care about getting better? Google is one of them. Its engineers are working on an application …
Fake2Fake
Do they have humor or time for games in university research centers? Are they rushing to patent digital applications? Or do they simply participate in completing what Debord had (discovered? …
Diagnosis of pocket
The passenger lost consciousness on the airplane during the flight. To his good fortune, his fellow traveler was Eric Topol. Topol is a cardiologist—but he didn’t perform chest compressions. He …
the product is you!
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 …
DNA sequencer
It may look like a large photocopier, but it’s not. According to its specifications, Illumina’s HiSeq X machine can produce the complete sequence of 16 human genomes in every 3-day …
The culture of honesty:
This is the declared goal of the Chinese state in a plan that formalizes what capitalist enterprises are already doing, only placing it under official state control by unifying it …
Big ball!
Online shopping for products in a marketplace with over 10 million stores, free messages, calls and video calls, file sharing (even large multimedia files), social networking for both personal and …
the internet of things has a small dirty secret
A year ago, when I started the Internet of Shit account on Twitter, I did it as a personal joke: I was hearing a lot about smart devices connected to …
body, pregnancy, recording, representation: the change of the “normal”
At the end of the ’60s, a pregnant young woman, a mother for the first time, carefully opens a leather-bound notebook with white pages. She notes the date and year …