Internationally they are called “smart cities.” But for Chinese President Xi Jinping, intelligence goes without saying… Thus he names the urban mega-project he is promoting the “city of dreams.” It …
Fake2Fake
Do they have humor or time for games in university research centers? Are they rushing to patent digital applications? Or do they simply participate in completing what Debord had (discovered? …
On/off
“One thing we know, that we know nothing.” This should be the motto of biotechnologists, if – as “scientists” – they were honest towards the populations that fund them. But …
Drones
The flying machines of the big brother! For the police, they are the ideal complement to the generalized surveillance, but for a photographer they become the wedding videography tool and …
Death is inevitable (for cyborgs and humans)
4 February 2018, Austin, Texas, final day of the annual BDYXAX summit (Human Augmentation, Transhumanism, and Biohacking conference). A canonical rendezvous for biohacking believers and advocates of “post-humanism.” On stage …
Robotic justice
In 2013, the state of Michigan replaced the 25-year-old computerized system of the unemployment insurance agency (equivalent to OAED in Greece) with a modern automated system called MiDAS (Michigan Integrated …
Αway from bad thoughts!
While some researchers are looking for what will, after all, eventually allow techno-science to help those taking exams to “remember all the material” (p. 56), others want to provide social …
cyber warfare exercise
Killer robots are not only iron machines with lethal specifications, but also ethereal entities on the internet. Bots (a “pet-name” abbreviation of robot) are robotic programs – software robot devices …
Electric memories
A group of researchers from the University of Southern California and the Wake Forest School of Medicine announced that they experimentally confirmed the positive contribution of electrode implantation in the …
Metabolism?
“Metamaterials” are artificial materials with not only a designed composition but also a designed molecular structure. As such, they display behaviors that are completely unknown (at least to common experience), …
Artificial mice
No, however, from what you thought! Biomedical engineers from Duke University in North Carolina announced via a paper in Nature that they created (for the first time) functional human muscle …
Dopamine
The “scientific” approach analyzes it as follows: Thanks to neuroscience, we are beginning to understand that achieving a goal or receiving a reward because one has completed a task can …