If you are post Gen X it is possible that you have never encountered this expression: "global village".

Until quantum physics emerged from the first couple of decades of the XX° everything looked fine.

The classic story of Horatii and the Curiatii repeats again.

The movie "The Postman", after the eponymous David Brin novel, is interesting at several levels.

Smartphones can be seen as a universal remote controllers.

The idea of a front line is a modern invention.

The first world war is finding a virtual echo on social media.

I had again an interesting conversation with Grok AI.

The last few weeks on social media have seen a kind of receding.

The transition to digital culture is lifting many masks at once.

Spring is coming.

The latest online controversy might be the most telling one since online controversies exist.

It always sounds pompous to cite ancient Greek philosophical paradoxes.

I had a very interesting chat with the latest version of Grok.

You can love or hate the guy but it is hard to not acknowledge the genius of Bob Dylan.

If you have lived through the beginning of the mobile phones, say starting from mid 90s until to the supremacy of the smartphone you might remember this area when mobile phones were exploring all poss...

The US 2024 presidential elections were not your usual election.

Max Weber has given the most cited definition of the state institution.

Losing the tracks

The Nietzschean advice about not gazing into the abyss for too long was a wise one.

The first week, at this point I can’t yet even use plural, of 2025 has been crazy.

The defeat of Kamala Harris in the 2024 US presidential elections haven't yet produced any institutional changes.

We have entered this part of the year where everything is hanging.

Two years have passed since the release of ChatGPT in late November 2022.

The time of the year as come again: I am starting to see 2025 expiration date on yogurts.

The time of the year as come again: I am starting to see 2025 expiration date on yogurts.

The Final Frontier is a late 80s science fiction movie from the Star Trek franchise.

This post is a follow-up to my first one, Kinetix, on reflections about the development of kinetic weapons systems now that the price to put mass in orbit has gone down so much that it becomes to be e...

Lately on social media one great thread of fear porn is about war drones.

Something like a quarter of century ago, in September of 1997 to be precise, was given a speech by J.

The Biden administration has been a turning point.

The Biden administration has been a turning point.

Few years back I wrote a post about ABC: Authorization Based Citizenship. At the time it was about vaccine passports. Maybe it has skipped your memory, life has become so surreal since then, but there...

For those not working on cybersecurity the “rainbow attack” might suggest something linked with the unstoppable rise in the use of rainbow flags in this pride month. It has not really anything to do w...

There is this strange character in the Batman universe that makes his decision depending on the flip of a coin: Harvey Dent. As the uses of AIs based on statistics are increasing, it is becoming an ev...

There are as many ways to define what is a nation-state as there are different point of views. One way to see this institution is through the ... statistics that it produces. This is more than just a ...

Many of the topics trending in our digital society share a common scheme. They are presented as solution to problems. Can you spot the scheme and the common points? Here is a non exhaustive list of re...

Few days ago I experienced a new

I had the chance to see this marvelous sculpture in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Maybe you always wondered why STEM nerds are spending so much time on equations and chalkboards. A part of the answer is...

I had the chance to see this marvelous sculpture in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Maybe you always wondered why STEM nerds are spending so much time on equations and chalkboards. A part of the answer is...

What an era to be alive. I am writing mostly to organize my thoughts about how I view the world.I also do it to keep track of what is going on, at least at a subjective level. A kind of open diary. It...

I believe that the biblical story of Jacob’s Ladder is the most fundamental story to explain what we are going through by entering into the digital age. Computers and communication systems allow anyon...

I believe that the biblical story of Jacob’s Ladder is the most fundamental story to explain what we are going through by entering into the digital age. Computers and communication systems allow anyon...

There is something deepling disturbing about those images of people with Apple vision headset on. It is hard to pinpoint why exactly. It is rather a gut feeling than a thought. I think it has to do with the fact that there is a sense of deep disconnection from reality.