Hygiene phobias (of all scales and intensities) are a direct expression of fears related to ablebodiedness, youth and death. For a (measured!) century now, (eternal) youth and immortality have been …
Emergency button
It has (or it say it has) 50 million users/customers worldwide. Perhaps they are not many. The online matchmaking app Tinder, and its owner, deserves to celebrate this accomplishment, establishing …
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 …
Fiction
This is how Blade Runner begins, the legendary film by Ridley Scott, shot in 1982. L.A. is a fragmented city with a “top” and a “bottom” world, and a key security issue is the seizure of “invaders” – biotechnological humanoids that “work” on other planets.
Not much freedom
The existence of “likes” on social media may not be beneficial. Its inventors, of course, had the good in mind. The ability of users to express their (positive) taste; or, …
The insomnia of the mine
We can not verify the accuracy of this table. But it has a value. It shows that what in everyday life is meant as “personal” and “unique” is simply a …
Consumer mores
An easy, fast and “pleasant” way to get acquainted with biometric data is to employ it for consumption. There is already a past in changing simple daily practices, such as …
Behind the tweets, the hyenas yawn
… The senior Twitter executive with editorial responsibility for the Middle East is also a part-time officer in the British Army’s psychological warfare unit. Gordon MacMillan, who joined the social …
What the moment holds
Is it useless information what “happens” in a minute, every minute, in cyberspace with the current 4G capabilities? Maybe. What the cyborg magazine (out of peculiarity, obviously) sees on this …
Track down the irresponsible!
The (electronic) social credit system works in china! For those who do not know, it is something like a platform where not only government agencies but also citizens assess each …
Sex Machines
Could machines be the object of sexual attraction? Do not rush to answer with an ironic “no”. When talking about “erotic machines” one should not be limited to the robotic …
do electric whales dream of death?
The “blue whale”, if we believe the etymology of the moral panic it caused, was an online challenge game for teenagers, in which the goal for the “players” was to …