You’ll forgive us for interrupting your rants on trivial matters such as, for example, the next rental property or, even worse, the massacres in the Middle East. Here the world …
the eugenic dystopia of “artificial intelligence”
A few days ago, a relatively small Chinese company announced a new “large language model” (the official technical term for what is commonly referred to as “artificial intelligence”), which overturned …
Big Bang: the farewell of a theory; (how sacred is science?)
The Big Bang theory will soon close a century of life – perhaps its obituary will coincide with the moment it retires into the history of human scientific conceptions. Its …
Kronos does not eat his children. He eats space and time.
Today everyone is talking about artificial intelligence. They say it shows us the future. But can it take us on a journey to the past? – Of course it can. …
15 minutes: instructions for the creative destruction of cities
It is presented as one of the ambitious (often monstrous) “solutions to the climate crisis”… But its advocates talk about anything else except the “climate crisis” and how this plan …
an introduction to the metaverse and meta-realities
He owes the Mafia the cost of a car. That’s a good reason for him to get serious. It cuts straight across the Road, under the monorail line, heading toward …
Raw material (almost) from scratch
The fission of nuclei (let’s call it “nuclear technology” although it occurs in specific materials long before our species manages to turn it into a weapon) is the practical proof …
Eternal youth (superficial first)…
A South Korean cosmetics company called Amorepacific, in collaboration with a team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), is preparing to support and commercialize the latter’s …
data: the new “raw material”
you can’t get lost In the house where I grew up, the forest reached right up to our back door. Many summer mornings I would run out and get lost …
electronic departure and virtual worlds
Is any of this true? I mean, look at this. Look at this! A world built from imagination.Synthetic emotions in pill form. Psychological warfare operations in the form of advertising. …
The cybernetic space machine
What is cyberspace? Can one see it? Determine it? Measure it? The question may seem provocatively commonplace, yet the answer appears to be difficult. According to the official interpretation one …
timer
Time (and our sense of it) is a precious matter – yet it has long been expropriated by the techniques of its measurement. Through unconscious processes, the minutes once, and …