Russian biotechnologists are proud because (they claim that) they achieved something unique so far: they connected the brain of a laboratory mouse with an “artificial intelligence” device, forcing the rodent …
Organic computers
How would you feel if some part of your computer’s or phone’s processor was… hmmmm… in some sense “alive”? Scientific fantasy? Or perhaps the spread of fake news? In the …
Magnetogenetics
It’s not just the much-publicized genetic cut-and-paste (CRISPR/Cas9) method of cell conquest/colonization. Such is the global productivity of labor and so enormous the extraction of surplus value that the bosses …
Finally, brain polyprize!
There are people deeply techno-religious, and there are others who pretend to be such because they are paid… as influencers… Both the former and the latter emerged from the opportunity …
Protection of neuro-rights?
Last September (before the elections that elected socialist/activist Gabriel Boric as president), Chile became the first capitalist country in the world to introduce legislation into its constitution for the protection …
High-tech fluid states
A while ago, back in the depths of the p.c. ages, when an insignificant virus wasn’t wreaking havoc everywhere, when references to technological developments weren’t “conspiracy theories,” when mRNA platforms …
where is your mind?
The inventor is an american, studied at Harvard. His name is Han Bicheng, and his start-up BrainCo. His invention is sensors that by resting on the forehead “catch electrical signals” …
Labor is the target.
The measures taken (and will be taken) on the occasion of the pandemic have a huge impact on the economy in general and the labor market in particular. Rhetoric has it that in order lives to be saved, the economy must be sacrificed. “Human life above profits!” is the slogan; and concerns about whether states have anti-capitalist tendencies to protect us are manifested in the cafes of the friends of the working class. Unable to find an explanation for the “turn of states against their interests and profits”, they accept this turn as a contradiction and get rid of it; to get confused again afterwards, trying to criticize its management, asking for more protection measures and bonuses.
Neuralink
You may easily be about a century behind. He is certainly not a successful businessman either, but that’s how he is considered (the parallel realities, you see!). He stands very …
“I can read your thoughts”…
Zuckerberg and Musk impersonate the “Knights of the Apocalypse”: among other things, they invest in the “interface” between human neurons and machines. But they are, in essence, the advertisers of …
DARPA wants to create weapons controlled directly by the mind
Last year, the American DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) announced that it seeks to find non-invasive ways “to achieve high levels of communication between brain and mechanical systems without …
Citius, Altius, Fortius… every day, all day… (health as continuous upgrading)
The invasion of hygiene over the past decades has been sweeping, encountering minimal resistance and making its appearance even under the guise of an alternativism that often indulges in hygienic …