The American Jim Farley, CEO of Ford, was alarmed: he visited various Chinese automotive industries and concluded that they will eliminate the American ones (only?;) if swift measures are not taken…
Organized stupefaction?
It is a position that we have publicly supported (i.e., in writing) on various occasions, despite it being particularly unpopular: every process of extensive mechanization of human capabilities quickly leads …
They kill, and they don’t want to pay.
In 2018, the German company Bayer acquired the American Monsanto for 63 billion dollars. Bayer already had a heavy criminal record, as the main company of the Nazi cartel IG …
Nuclear? Yes, thank you!
That so-called “renewable energy sources” are not only ecological is known! That, moreover, they are inherently unstable, resulting in problems in the networks, became clear with the recent blackout in …
“Smart mine”!
Stoas full of sensors. Robotic vehicles and excavators. Sensors on the ground surface. And a “control center”, with dozens of operators in front of screens: the old miners could never …
Restructuring
While in the western world the so-called “artificial intelligence” is presented mainly as a linguistic achievement (with the purpose of accumulating data from its “interlocutors”), in the far east its …
What does Marx say about gain-of-function research?
The title is provocative… Marx could not have known anything about gain-of-function research! He could not have known (or even imagined) the specific relationships between militarism, capitalist technology, and social …
The hidden side of the ecological transition
Machines that perform calculations with complex algorithms, based on large amounts of data and extract smart-looking answers, are not only fed by the fragmented knowledge of their creators, but also …
Big tricks (and expensive)
When it was announced, it was hailed as the greatest collaborative scientific undertaking in the history of humanity! The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor / ITER, based in southern France, was …
Mechanical, very mechanical: comments on artificial general intelligence
Will smart machines produce value? Despite the plethora of related analyses, the entire discussion (at least in mainstream media) around artificial intelligence seems to have reached a dead end, trapped …
the great leap: immunity as capital, morbidity as investment
The term “natural capital” was first used in 1973 by E.F. Schumacher in his book “Small Is Beautiful” and was further developed by Herman Daly, Robert Costanza and other founders …
Make me a summary
Amazon has long been notorious for its harsh anti-union practices and the working conditions that prevail in its warehouses. Its latest achievement? According to an internal company document that leaked, …