Last Saturday, two systemic media outlets, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, published a u.s department of state order to electronic chip manufacturers: it is forbidden to sell to chinese …
From mutations to “reprogramming”: the breakthrough of genetic engineering
Mutations may occur in all kinds of organisms randomly from the beginning of the world. But designed mutations, the diamond in the crown of biotechnologies in recent decades, quickly became …
fuck the algorithm
In mid-August, thousands of high school students rallied in front of the education ministry of Her Majesty’s government. It deserves be considered the second authentic demonstration against the “brave new …
Labor is the target.
The measures taken (and will be taken) on the occasion of the pandemic have a huge impact on the economy in general and the labor market in particular. Rhetoric has it that in order lives to be saved, the economy must be sacrificed. “Human life above profits!” is the slogan; and concerns about whether states have anti-capitalist tendencies to protect us are manifested in the cafes of the friends of the working class. Unable to find an explanation for the “turn of states against their interests and profits”, they accept this turn as a contradiction and get rid of it; to get confused again afterwards, trying to criticize its management, asking for more protection measures and bonuses.
Let’s finish with digital immigrants!
Among other things, the provisions made for returning to schools this year include health examinations, “thorough cleaning”, gloves and masks, demarcation of space and time, tele-procedures and tracing protocols. One …
Health as capital
The aim of this study is to construct a model of the demand for the commodity “good health”. The central proposition of the model is that health can be viewed …
Automatic service quality
A rumor has it that at the peak of the “hot autumn” strike wave in northern italy, Agnelli, the owner of fiat, imagined, wished or wanted to hope for a …
cashless: money as a cloud
A society (a world) without money would be, perhaps, healthier? The question does not imply harsh anticapitalism, nor nostalgia for a return to nature and to a “barter economy.” For …
Plague’s political dream
Behold, according to a regulation from the end of the 17th century, the measures that should be taken in case plague breaks out in a city. At first, a strict …
many, very many, and healthy: health big data is yet another gold mine
Health of Data Big data have changed the way we manage, analyze and leverage data in every industry. One of the most promising areas where they can be applied to …
lock step
In 2012, the pandemic that the world had been anticipating for so many years finally struck. Unlike the 2009 H1N1, this new strain of flu—which originated from wild geese—was extremely …
Article 230
Twenty-six words in an article of a 1996 u.s. law allowed the internet to be what we know it to be; and in “content publishing” giants like google, facebook and …