What is a “smart city”? The sum of various “smart” devices and applications? Or the technological shaping of a large-scale unified and controllable “shell” for social relations, which composes technology …
the invasion of killer robots
A microscopic quadcopter with a diameter of just three centimeters can carry one to two grams of explosive material. You can easily order as many as you want from various …
the mutations died; long live the mutations!!
The industry that has covered more than 1.81 million square kilometers of the planet’s arable land with genetically modified crops is at the center of a massive change. The improved …
after the internet: cloud computing, big data and internet of things
introduction On March 12, 2014, Google invited the world to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the internet, which was born, in the company’s view, when the first browser was released. …
data: the new “raw material”
you can’t get lost In the house where I grew up, the forest reached right up to our back door. Many summer mornings I would run out and get lost …
about paradigm shift… again
Saying that capitalist relations of production and consumption are dominant, essentially across the entire planet by now, constitutes a truism. This is an obvious observation, at least for those who …
cern: the giant microscope
It is said that the large industrial exhibitions that moved through European and American cities from the middle of the 19th century onwards were, among other things (or perhaps primarily), …
social neuroscience: pills for socially sensitive at opportunity cost
the brain: the new big trick The engagement, to an obsessive degree, with the human (and not only) genome within technoscientific laboratories around the world is rather well known. And …
Terminator and Blade Runner: building cyborgs and humans
Making Cyborgs, Making Humans – Of terminators and blade runners by Forest Pyle is a chapter from the book The Cybercultures Reader (2000, Routledge editions), and we have included its …
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 …
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 …