Modern Machinery and Its Influence on Human Beings
Like so many products of technology—consider the automobile or the Walkman used by teenagers—television can isolate people even within the...
Tecnología
Noticias y analisis sobre tecnologia, inteligencia artificial, innovacion digital y desarrollos aplicados. La categoria conecta tendencias tecnologicas con ciencia, salud, industria, energia y transformaciones sociales.
The “Idiot Box”
Everyone watches television, yet only a small minority could win a quiz show by naming its inventor. He was a...
The dream of immortality
In 1726, Jonathan Swift, an irreverent critic of modern science, published a satire on humanity’s fear of death and its...
Man and the machine
Humanity’s mistrust of machines—or rather, the mistrust felt by only part of humanity—is nothing new. History is full of examples....
From Gutenberg to IBM
The role played by technology in the Renaissance is well known. One curious example was the influence of the invention...
