Technology
Technogrief: Love, Loss and Labour in an Age of Digital Domesticity
Helen Hester
The possibility of establishing emotional relationships with home technology raises new dilemmas and questions.
Technology
First of all, how are the machines doing?
Ezequiel Soriano
Can we imagine machine creativity without falling into the trap of the modern idea of innovation and originality?
Technology
Artificial Emotion
Ferran Esteve
As the physical and digital worlds converge, new types of emotional relationships are emerging between humans and machines.
Technology
The Spiritual Cyborg
Erik Davis
Faced with the ideological domination of reductionist science and the sociocultural domination of its technological advances, what is left of humanism?
Planet
Technology
Luxury communism and automation
Ekhi L. de la Granja
Is a world possible where robots do everything, while we simply enjoy life? We consider how automation will affect us, based on the book “Fully Automated Luxury Communism. A Manifesto” by Aaron Bastani.
Technology
Android Love
Núria Gómez Gabriel
We reflect on how love relationships have been transformed by the introduction of new technologies 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.
Technology
Living with Smart Algorithms
Sandra Álvaro
Algorithms enable us to create smarter machines, but their lack of neutrality and transparency raises new challenges.
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.
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.
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
Planet
Storytelling
The Anthropocene, Climate Change and Dystopias
Serielizados
When TV series tackle the future they tend to depict quite a dark world ahead of us.