I a general surgeon with more than three decades in private clinical practice. Since the late 1970s, I have witnessed remarkable technological revolutions in medicine, from computed tomographic scans to robot-assisted surgery, but I have also watched as medicine slowly evolved into the domain of technicians, bookkeepers, and clerks. Government interventions over the past four decades have yield...

While the far-fetched ideas brought up with imagination are shedding lights on Science Fiction Movies, occasionally ever-growing technology has been fuelled by these creative inspirations and imaginations. This article reflects on the findings of the data visualization project Dystopia-Utopia (www.dystopia-utopia.com) and investigates the existence of a common discourse that would stand out in ...

Autocratic regimes, democratic majorities, private platforms, and religious or professional organizations can achieve social control by managing the flow of information about individuals’ behavior. Bundling agents’ political, organizational, attitudes with their prosocial conduct makes them care behaviors that they otherwise would not. The incorporation graph in score further promotes soft but ...

“We” was written by Russian novelist Yevgeny Zamyatin in 1921 after the Soviet Revolution. To be at edge of conflicts scrutinized novel, which protagonist, labeled as D-503, having a tentative position well-defined ground power presented itself truth or law. The narration constructed via diary protagonist; how D-503 perceived paradigm, he had lived in, what kind and contradictions been living w...

the study of regional variations and the anthropogenic contamination by trace toxic elements of soils is very important for environmental planning and monitoring in urban areas. soil, sediment and rocks of urban areas of kerman studied to assess the degree of pollution by trace elements as a consequence of anthropogenic sources. 37 samples were collected and analyzed by icp-ms for 29 elements. ...

2004 opened with the cancellation of a number of commercial airline flights at the bequest of the US administration. This serves as a reminder of the mundane and arbitrary operation of power ("Its got to the point where if there's anybody called Mohammed aboard, your flight's got a problem" senior airline source, quoted Guardian, 3 January 2004), and also of the renewed focus on surveillance an...

In recent years, commentators have characterized the disruptive social occurrences and technological change as dystopic. As we attempt to address deal with this melee of events their associated emotions reactions, article mines media ecology literature, work renowned Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, other sources propose some answers choices for path forward. More specifically, defines dystopi...