engineering of everything: the atmosphere…

The American president may be mocked, asking for the return of “global warming” on the days (at the end of last January) when polar (literally) temperatures hit the northern and …

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 …

quantum computers: the empire of computations

when the cat left the box… The Aristotelian (hence philosophical) dichotomy of either exists / does not exist, and its variation true / false, was mathematized during the 19th century …

Welcome to our store!

What could this be that appears in the photograph? The reception at a high-tech hotel perhaps? Or maybe at an electronics store? Could it perhaps be the passenger service desk …

Police glasses

What Google didn’t achieve with its “glasses,” the Chinese state will achieve – by putting the glasses on the American “giant.” Because being able to monitor each other so openly …

auto-shopping

You shouldn’t just pass it by with indifference. It’s a robotic shopping cart for the supermarket. If you input the right codes, it can “shop on its own.” It can …

Improve, or else lose!

You don’t want to improve your memory (whether neuroscientists figure out how it works or not); you don’t want to improve the “data processing” of your thinking; nor the speed …

It’s not what you think

It’s not a hand that was slightly injured somewhere. It’s a hand after the implantation of a microchip half the size of a toothpick, via a procedure that takes less …

The robot as a toy

Forget Barbie!!! She may have reproduced mainstream standards for girls, but she’s a 20th-century relic. The future belongs to the “next generation” – and my friend Cayla is a good …

from online to onlife: engineering everything

History and Machines Can we perceive the ongoing parade of modern technological applications and wonders as something beyond a mere sum of “good and bad human inventions”? Can we perceive …