Despite the leaps of progress made by Chinese capitalism in recent years in cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence (whatever the term means), next-generation 5G networks and optical fibres, there …
Even greater convenience
This is the next step, it’s here, and it’s good to know. Because it has arguments in its favor; and the assets to become fashionable. In sweden, several thousand citizens …
What did you say?
Does language have socio-political dimensions? Even when we are dealing with technical terms of a science? From the perspective of contemporary linguistics of structuralist inspiration, such questions seem non-sensical. What …
Σύμμαχοι εντόμων
Besides teaching robotic weapons the joy of cooperation and initiative, the American DARPA, the technological arm of the U.S. military, wants to genetically modify (and mass-produce) insects to enlist them …
Thalidomide?
The first investigation began when fifteen cases of children were recorded who were born either without palms (in one or both hands) or with severe deformities in their arms. The …
Ali Baba alone
Amazon’s well-known chinese competitor, alibaba, introduced its marketable cloud, primarily for use within china, in 2009. In the middle of last year it started offering cloud services for commercial use …
Shrewd cities
It is not easy to come up against 500,000 cameras and sensors in all public places; even if one wanted to. If the gift of this giga-panopticon is absolute security …
Collaboration above all…
The announcement itself is undeniably dystopian. Last November, the American DARPA (who else?) announced that it had successfully conducted a live-fire exercise of collaborative robotic weapons—airborne, ground and maritime—without real-time …
The Invisible Campaign
In our territories, these are completely indifferent matters; what are serious are the political buffooneries and the everyday trivialities. In other societies they have begun to understand the seriousness of …
Falling onto the tracks doesn’t stop the train
Washington is trying to brake the global expansion of Chinese-origin 5G communications technology, codenamed Huawei. Right now Huawei is far ahead of every competitor worldwide: not just in research but …
Social responsibility
Who would disagree? If you have a pet and you don’t take care of it, you’re an unworthy “owner”. In distant e-China this is not idle talk. Every dog owner …
Make a wish…
The Japanese “Astro Live Experiences” (ALE) wants to be the first to offer (for a fee) “artificial star showers” – the Perseids or shooting stars, which when they fall naturally …