Bayer. Perhaps the largest chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology company in the world, leading in every sector it operates. Monsanto. Perhaps the largest agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology company in the world, responsible …
Green transition… towards dystopia
Dark years are coming. Not because “our future has much drought,” but because the drought now spreads to the past too – which is the source of every future. Freedom …
data, more data: surveillance and punishment in everyday life
Surveillance has been transformed from an element of governance into governance itself. It is simultaneously government (system) and governability (self-awareness and cooperation, where the imprisoned becomes the guardian of himself). …
The mechanics of the public: Big Data in parliament
In its complaint, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) describes how, with a data sample obtained from Kochava, it was possible to identify a device that visited a women’s reproductive health …
Neurocolonization
We have nanobots that … connect our neocortex to a synthetic neocortex in the cloud… Thought will become … a hybrid of biology and non-biology… Paranoid or not prophets You …
The body as a datacenter: data storage and processing in DNA
According to experts, we have a serious problem that needs to be addressed soon: the volume of data is continuously increasing, to a point where the infrastructures for its mass …
Digital currencies, algorithmic prisons
When the mandatory use of “plastic money” for 30% of the taxable amount of everyone was imposed (in Greece), the justification was “to combat tax evasion”: the idea that monetary …
The attack of the geneticists is escalating!
Just in the previous issue of cyborg we presented the “concerns” (essentially: the maneuvers) within the European Union in favor of deregulating genetic modifications (mutations) in plants and animals.In the …
Pandemics and biological warfare: the Scylla and Charybdis of the 4th industrial revolution
The geographical distance between Wuhan and eastern Ukraine, and the temporal distance between March 2020, when the pandemic was declared, and February 2022, when the Russian invasion began, may seem …
For an anti-history of genetics
Introduction How well does a physicist really know nature and its secrets? To what depth has a biologist understood the phenomena of life and the intricate pathways it follows? Naive …
an introduction to the metaverse and meta-realities
He owes the Mafia the cost of a car. That’s a good reason for him to get serious. It cuts straight across the Road, under the monorail line, heading toward …
biological warfare: the unseen face of the pandemic
You are more likely to be unfamiliar with the name Kees van der Pijl, and understandably so. Although he is a scholar with significant credentials in his field, he does …