Emergent Media and Markets - D. Boghian

                      The increasing number of global population in the last few centuries, alongside the technological developments and innovations, has led to an extremely significant surge in carbon footprint production. There is a direct proportionality between the thinning of the ozone layer and the raise in Earth's temperature. Only in the last two decades major changes can be observed in terms of record high temperature occurrences. Consequences are obvious: sea levels raise, seasons change, natural disasters are more frequent and much more violent, species become extinct, draughts, poverty, scarcity, etc. The acceleration of the  anthropogenic activity turns the Earth into a gigantic microwave oven; and all together we spin around in it daily, struggling to delay this global warming. Some are non-believers of the climate change, some are keen environmentalists, while some argue that it is all part of Earth's natural cycles and that global warming was imminent either

From Evolution to R e volution                   Observing the context in which humanity finds itself currently through Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, it is very simple to identify a "crescendo" in terms of capabilities of improving our lives on this planet. From microscopical organisms to homo sapiens-sapiens, chemically and biologically,  we evolved. Eating meat for the first time has forever transformed our brain and this major "upgrade" has taken us from natively curious beings to creative/innovative ones. The wheel, the speech and language formation, the metallurgic era - we evolved. We created tools and systems to cover our needs.                     Our eco-system on the other hand, has remained almost the same for billions of years. When we identified that this was not the perfect match for the human race anymore, we started "upgrading" it too. Because we could. Or simply, the way we prefer to usually lament ourselves, bec

Whether it lies within our human nature as a psychological underlay, or it is some sort of a nurtured habit copied from the world's religious myths, our race has always manifested a powerful tendency to "play" God. A child's first drawing will, 95% of times, be of a human. We create in our own image and likeness. A drawing, a doll, a Frankenstein or an actual robot - but our work is incomplete if it is incapable of interacting with us, if it cannot accomplish tasks given by us, the patrons, if it cannot make decisions on its own. So we attached to it a computer, an artificial brain. Feeding it with information, we took a step back to watch it developing. Elon Musk reacting on social media to Sophia's (the robot) statement. Source: Twitter.com The ethics around AI are at debate on a regular basis nowadays, as we protrude more and more through the Ubiquitous Computing found in nearly every daily human task. Very interesting points of view are raised withi