Science
The Quantum Sense III: Quantum Information
Marta García-Matos
The change to the quantum model is gentler if physics is considered from the viewpoint of information
Commons
I am not your periphery
Karo Moret
The identities of the African diaspora and how in Europe, relations with otherness continue to be built under the social categories of race and gender.
Technology
World Siliconization
Éric Sadin
The irresistible expansion of digital liberalism points towards regulating, for the sole purpose of benefit, the course of life through algorithms.
Culture
Towards a new Design Atlas
Efraín Foglia
Social and industrial changes in recent decades are urging a reconsideration of design typologies, with a re-reading for the current era.
Storytelling
Poetics of Pencil, Paper and Contradictions
Jorge Carrión
Reflections of a writer who transits between the analog and the digital, the material and the virtual.
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Planet
Timothy Morton: Ecology without Nature
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
We interview the philosopher Tim Morton, author of “Dark Ecology”, who proposes that we rethink the way we see ecology, anthropocentrism and art.
Planet
Joanna Zylinska: “We need a new way of seeing the Anthropocene”
Laura Benítez Valero
Approaching the climate crisis from an ethical standpoint, at different scales, where humans may be the cause but are also answerable to demands and solutions.
Culture
Towards a new Design Atlas
Efraín Foglia
Social and industrial changes in recent decades are urging a reconsideration of design typologies, with a re-reading for the current era.
Science
The Quantum Sense (II): Paradoxes
Marta García-Matos
In the history of quantum physics, three types of paradoxes exist: those that challenge classical physics, those that challenge intuition and common sense, and those that challenge quantum physics itself.
Technology
Bias in a feedback loop: fuelling algorithmic injustice
David Casacuberta
In order to prevent machine learning algorithms from perpetuating social inequalities, public debate is necessary on which problems are automatable.
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Artificial Intelligence
Technology
Machines Now Know How to Terrorise Humans
Cristina Sáez
The Shelley Project studies how to produce horror stories as a result of collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence.
Technology
Machines and Humans: We Need to Talk
Andreu Belsunces | Marta Handenawer
The rise of personal virtual assistants calls for reflection on who is helping whom, and to what extent we will delegate tasks to machines.
Storytelling
The book to come
Javier Celaya
Artificial intelligence, big data, and virtual reality are set to change the book world over the next ten years.
Technology
When Creativity Ceased To Be (Exclusively) Human
Jose Valenzuela Ruiz
How do artistic artificial intelligences work? We analyse what seemed to be the last stronghold of human creativity.
Science
On the Multiplicity of Intelligences
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
What is intelligence? How can we accurately define a concept that we only understand superficially?
Science
Avatars, Cyborgs and Robots: Can Humans Enhance Themselves? (I)
Sandra Álvaro
The design of bionic prostheses and the creation of intelligent machines are some of the advances made towards enhancing our physical and intellectual abilities
Science
Avatars, Cyborgs and Robots: Can Humans Enhance Themselves? (II)
Sandra Álvaro
Codifying human beings and increasing the processing capacity of computers has made it possible to create machines that can respond to our actions.
Technology
Living with Smart Algorithms
Sandra Álvaro
Algorithms enable us to create smarter machines, but their lack of neutrality and transparency raises new challenges.
Technology
Algorithmic Injustice
David Casacuberta
In light of the increasing use of algorithms to automate decisions, we do not just want them to produce results that are correct. They must also be fair.
Science
The “uncanny valley” hypothesis in robots
Ferran Esteve
The "uncanny valley" hypothesis holds that when a robot looks almost, but not exactly, like a human being, it causes disconcert and revulsion in the observer,