articles The Uncanny Valley in a cyberpunk vision Robots like humans are more attractive, but only up to a certain point: the Uncanny valley.
articles AIs and neuromorphic processors: Will we be able to handle the 'exponential gap'? Is it now possible to partly reproduce the potential of the human brain in terms of computation, harnessing its speed and energy efficiency, due to the expanding knowledge of neural networks and neurobiology. But are we really capable of handling all this very rapid progress?
articles Blade Runner's Replicants: AIs, Identity, Memory and Neurorights There are risks connected to the use of robotics and AI technologies. Can an artificial intelligence create a Memory of itself? Remembrances? Lives?
articles The Philosophy of Transhumanism: From Literature to Scientific Practice Anyone interested in technological progress and cybernetic transplants knows that transhumanism is no longer a "fringe science", but research that is surprisingly concrete.
articles A Science Fiction Journey: Where does Sci-Fi come from? How define the origin of the science fiction? It is near impossible. You would have to trace the entire path of stories, plots, novels, short stories, narratives of all kinds.
reviews Dust, the short SciFi by Jason Gallaty, Josh Grier & Mike Grier The world is changing rapidly. New species evolve to adapt to changing ecosystems. Technology and tradition coexist as symbiotic opposites that divide rural people from city dwellers. Nature provides a constant challenge in the midst of this turmoil. This is Dust by Mike Grier.
articles Artificial intelligence, science fiction and everyday life Generative AI products can produce written, graphical, and audio content or software programs with minimal human involvement, but also flat creative output and minimize the importance of human emotions and feelings involved in the creative process.
articles Cyberpunk: On social and cultural meaning of a literary movement The fictional genre known as cyberpunk has deep political and cultural roots, with great authors such as William Gibson and Neal Stephenson shaping its development and success. 'Cyberpunk is a comet that has passed through the skies of speculative fiction and exploded in its heyday. We will long sail
reviews Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The imminent biological disintegration as a result of the radioactive catastrophe, the need for a 'belief', even if it is illusory (TV cult), the dumbing down of consciousness and ability to choose caused by the mass media.
