When biologists synthesize DNA, it is assumed that they take care not to create or spread a dangerous piece of genetic code that could be used to create a toxin …
Big Tech enter the food game
Do not trust the new UN campaign, “Food Systems Coordination Hub”, regarding the “transformation of food systems for global health”. The current corporate agenda, which is supported by this new …
the parrot’s question: how far does thought fly?
A man considered the godfather of artificial intelligence (AI) resigned from his job, warning about the increasing risks due to developments in this field.Geoffrey Hinton, 75 years old, announced his …
The mechanics of the spirit
First Snapshot: Programmed bio-computers. None of us can escape our own nature, our nature as programmable entities. Each one of us can literally be nothing more than our programs; nothing …
mRNA OS
What is more difficult? For someone to follow names and developments in the Middle East (or in Asia, or anywhere outside the “national village” and its demagogy)? Or to follow …
It falls into the police!
Are you (we are) tired / from the hammering of the hygiene terror campaign? The demagogues say it and say it again… Did they get caught by kindness, sensitivity, compassion? …
Synthetic biology, genealogy: life is cheap!
Is it biotechnology? Is it nanotechnology? Or perhaps it is information technology? The field of synthetic biology is practically all three together – an example of “converging technologies”, another one …
Synthetic biology
Synthetic biology (SynBio) is a multidisciplinary area of research that seeks to create new biological parts, devices, and systems, or to redesign systems that are already found in nature. It …
the reset
… the pandemic will accelerate innovation even more, catalysing technological changes already under way (comparable to the exacerbation effect it has had on other underlying global and domestic issues) and …
Behavior surveillance and control/shaping: the only real health is the health of the machine!
On April 5th, one could light-heartedly read in the pages of the regime newspaper kathimerini: Kaushik Basu, an economics professor at Cornell university and a former “world bank” chief economist …
smart contracts: when bureaucracy becomes intelligent
Those who have visited the tax office for some procedural work, surely did not return with pleasant memories. With interesting stories and hair-raising details perhaps, but certainly not with an …
Besides, they constantly go off
Vermont is a peculiar state among the others of the u.s.a.. It is generally considered a progressive one (one of the presidential candidates for the DNC primary elections, Bernie Sanders, …