Those who have visited the tax office for some procedural work, surely did not return with pleasant memories. With interesting stories and hair-raising details perhaps, but certainly not with an …
the internet and the death of criticism
Our planet is a sphere, or rather a flattened sphere, slightly compressed at the poles and a bit wider at its equator; anyway, real planets have their curves. But our …
neuromechanics as a generator of realities
A real encounter with non-existent worlds for our Western rational civilization—and yet existent, if you accept the effort to discover them. Genuine experiences of contact with things behind the apparent, …
reality in decline (and in sales)
In every historical era, there is a core set of ideas through which a society understands itself and which outline its worldview. Ideas that in other times would seem bizarre …
liberation from reality: the last slavery…
From deep digital forgery (deep fake) to the digital spread and popularity of “conspiracy theories”; from pathological attachment/addiction to personal remote controls (smart phones) to machine-to-machine communication: the parameters of …
climate change and 4th industrial revolution
…It is now widely recognized that an unprecedented level of collaboration and innovation will be needed, involving many beyond the public sector, to advance the major, systemic transitions required in …
Impersonation
Alice Bergmann lives in Chemnitz, germany, and has a serious problem with islam. She must overcome an overwhelming shock, the murder of her sister Elizabeth a few years ago in …
the digital (and not so much) fronts of the fourth world war: the example of Israel
A characterization consistently attributed to the fourth world war, even by those who refuse to recognize it as such, is that of hybrid war. Hybrid, because orthodox and unorthodox methods …
the castration of flies
An important discovery is set to provide new possibilities in dealing with the Mediterranean fruit fly and the olive fruit fly, two insects that are particularly harmful to crops. After …
the racist origins of the American high-tech industry
How the tools built for the U.S. census fueled the Nazi genocide, concentration camps, and state racism—and helped launch the digital age. On a frozen December day in 1896, an …
the ideological management of climate change
“In the event that intense climate change phenomena occur, that is, an average global temperature increase of 2.6 degrees Celsius by 2040, then large-scale non-linear environmental events will cause large-scale …
neurobehavioral signals: “health” instead of “defense”
The proposal is fitting for its time: by collecting personal data from various sources, suitable algorithms can make a “psychiatric diagnosis” – enough to identify potential mass killers… In the …