It is a position that we have publicly supported (i.e., in writing) on various occasions, despite it being particularly unpopular: every process of extensive mechanization of human capabilities quickly leads …
Science; Of whom;
When in 1942, during the Second World War, a good portion of the Western physicists’ elite gathered in the US to transform their until-then theoretical knowledge and ideas into something …
The gears of recording
Statistics, as the science of numbers, records, and classifications without further explanations and annoying causal chains, had been closely intertwined with genetics from an early stage. Eugenics (and therefore genetics, …
It was an order…
They said that Saddam Hussein had “anthrax” – a biological weapon (while they knew he didn’t)… They said that for this reason their army must be vaccinated preventively, for their …
History of the messenger
What is the biotechnology of messenger RNA? Is it a simple technical breakthrough, as its followers claim, that will only lead to good for humankind? Or is it the first …
Introduction to biosecurity
After the attacks on the Twin Towers, on September 11, 2001, the world entered a “new normality”. On the occasion of these attacks, new practices and technologies of surveillance and repression were installed throughout the spectrum of public and private space, which nullified the civil liberties granted until then. The “war on terror” imposed emergency mobilization for the purposes of managing the “Islamic threat”, which (emergency mobilization / urgent need) was then made permanent. Always in the name of “freedom”…
The unknown ancestor
It is certain that all humankind originated in Africa. It is also certain that our most recent genes are the result of interbreeding between the three versions of the original …
Education at the threshold of the 4th industrial revolution
The education system as we know it is only about 200 years old. Before that, formal education was mostly reserved for the elite. But as industrialization changed the way we …
Cold Fusion
For some, it represents the ultimate energy solution: a cheap energy source without environmental implications. The final (and, above all, practical) form of such a nuclear process does not appear …
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 …
Fake AI
Artificial intelligence is supposedly making leaps and is expected to be one of the key technological directions of the fourth industrial revolution. It is also assumed that it will mechanize …
The uncivilized
The artifact “Plimpton 322” (photograph), for 80 years in the collections of Columbia University, is at least 3,700 years old. It comes from Mesopotamia, from the territory of ancient (and …