What is communicated are commands and… those who give them also say what they mean. Guy Debord, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, 1988 Here, to “speak” you must …
Robocop
We will one day remember that the first robot-police officers appeared in 2016 at the edge of the Saudi Arabian peninsula, in Dubai. We will remember that they were launched …
The metaphysics of cyber-warfare
This is “the bad guy” Sauron, from “the lord of the rings”. ProjectSauron is what the well-known Russian malware fighting company Kaspersky Labs named a new discovery of theirs (almost …
Transparent world
In the past, all kinds of security services had to “get their hands dirty” in order to achieve a good and reliable rate of filing cases against subjects under surveillance. …
eagle vs drone
“The ribs eat first”: the saying is about something else, but however it is reversed (for the moment…) at the point of the new example: the first eat the ribs! …
The two sides of social networking
Social media is a virtual field of sociality, where social time is converted into digital space. A virtual, digital space where millions of users deposit pieces of their daily activity, …
“prevention of abnormalities”
Last February, the British parliament passed a law approving corrective genetic interventions in egg DNA, using DNA segments from another woman’s eggs. The birth of children from “three parents” (the …
Fitter, happier, more productive… (about self-quantification)
Fitter, happier, more productiveComfortable, not drinking too muchRegular exercise at the gym 3 days a weekGetting on better with your associate employee contemporariesAt ease, eating wellSleeping well, no bad dreams, …
“smart” glasses
The “most promising” (so far) electronic device for enhancing everyday life, Google’s glasses (Google Glass), has encountered an unexpected obstacle. While residents of cosmopolitan cities live and move among millions …
smart cities
It’s not that strange that the prefix “smart” is starting to gain ground in our increasingly technological everyday life. If smartphones broke all sales records, why couldn’t the same happen …