Those who believe that cyberspace is the great opportunity to “disappear” (hiding their identity) are sorely mistaken. The conscription of providers (i.e., the data of their customers) is a well-known …
the internet of things has a small dirty secret
A year ago, when I started the Internet of Shit account on Twitter, I did it as a personal joke: I was hearing a lot about smart devices connected to …
quantum teleportation
Two separate teams of technoscientists, both funded by the American Pentagon, recently announced that they have (experimentally) achieved quantum teleportation. These are programs of the well-known DARPA, one in China …
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. …
cybernetics
The gentleman in the first photograph is the renowned linguist Roman Jakobson, one of the principal (if not the principal) founders of structuralism in linguistics. Taking Saussure’s theories as his …
social cats
The site iknowwhereyourcatlives.com is an online page – a project by a professor at the University of Florida. It displays a world map with little cats at the spot where …
the fourth example(;): the mechanical mediation of scientific thought
The term “Paradigm,” along with its companion “Paradigm Shift,” since first appearing in Thomas Kuhn’s classic book on the structure of scientific revolutions, has undergone not only the expected criticism, …
algorithmic predictions
“Big data” are not (more precisely: must not be allowed to be) merely vast piles of data that clever machines will dig through each time, on demand, now extracting one …
4th industrial revolution, work in progress: don’t miss it!!!
The term 4th industrial revolution should not have been unfamiliar to specialists. But the recent gathering of the world’s “lords” in the Swiss Davos (after their invitees: the Greek prime …
biometric cinema
DiCaprio as Hugh Glass in “The Revenant” by Alejandro Inarritu. Before you saw the film (if you did), others had already seen it. The production company, 20th Century Fox, held …
NEIL
NEIL (Never Ending Image Learning) has been running at Carnegie Mellon University in the US since July 2013, 24 hours a day. Guided by computer vision algorithms, it scans millions …
the new member of the board of directors
It is not symptomatic that the chair in front of the laptop, at the corner of the table, is empty. Nobody went to the restroom; the machine has its place, …