With Virtual Reality and CyberSpace as latest computer-based developments approaching Mankind at a quickening pace their dangerous and hallucinating perspectives are linked in this paper to a specific feature of computers: the incomprehensibility of their processes in principle. (This will be explained as resulting from the virtual, non-sensible nature of software as well as from the “incompati...

survive as would survive if she herself continued to live; if she laid down her life for three chicks, the number of her surviving genes would even increase (Hamilton, 1996). The fact that she was protecting her young while they were powerless and that she later chased them away is understandable: the dispersal of individuals at an appropriate time increases the chance that the genes they carry...

EDEN, a famous garden, is also an acronym for the Electronic Democracy European Network, a project involving a consortium of public administrations (local authorities), academic institutions and technology companies. The thirty-month project aims to improve communication between the administrations and citizens in decision-making processes to do with urban planning, and at time of writing is in...

With the notable exception of his paleolithic feminism,1 Stanisław Lem (1921–2006) was a twenty-first-century writer writing in twentieth century. As early as 1960s, he anticipated much twenty-first century's information technology and biotechnology—tablets, personal computers, smart phones, eBooks, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, robotics, holograms, advanced prosthetics, human-machi...

stories, myths and tales can make ideas a part of popular culture. rea at religious figures have taught with parables; we use fables and fairy tales to teach our children about life; and it has been argued that even the ancient Greek myths might have been deliberate devices for organizing and transmitting information about the natural world to non-scientifically oriented people [I]. Once an ide...

A disparity exists between studies reporting that genetics discourse produces deterministic or fatalistic responses and studies reporting that the majority of laypeople do not hold or adopt genetically deterministic views. This article reports data from an interview study (n = 50), ...

This contribution aims at highlighting how a video-game firm copes in managing creativity and expression of artistic values, while meeting the constraints of the economics of mass entertainment. The research is based on an ethnographic study in one of the largest video game studios in the world located in Montréal. The approach considers that the creative units of the firms are the “communities...