In June 2020, we closed the text for “plague’s political dream” as follows: Certainly, reality is not that universal. The questioning of experts is one example, and the world circulating …
Health on your plate!
FReSH (initials standing for Food Reform for Sustainability and Health) is a benevolent initiative of the “World Business Council” to restructure the world’s food system; and to make companies adapt …
Superposition; Disentanglement;
Because some basics of physics (understood as a science) have been learned by each of us at school and, above all, have been adopted as constants, as givens, as reality, …
p.c. labor
The so-called remote work (we have explained that we prefer the term “work from home”, in order to get rid of the propaganda of idyllic descriptions of the type “work …
History of the messenger
What is the biotechnology of messenger RNA? Is it a simple technical breakthrough, as its followers claim, that will only lead to good for humankind? Or is it the first …
the reset
… the pandemic will accelerate innovation even more, catalysing technological changes already under way (comparable to the exacerbation effect it has had on other underlying global and domestic issues) and …
Telecommuting: the metadata in the service for measuring work productivity
The measurement of productivity has taken various forms over time. The quantity of the produced product/service is the basic criterion. Initially, with overall characteristics – how much the factory produces. …
Robots don’t take our jobs. They become our supervisors!
Both politicians in their election campaigns and corporate executives at their conferences warn about an impending crisis due to automation – a crisis where workers will be replaced, gradually at …
High tech sharpening
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.