Wild Systems

When anthropogenic systems go feral

We like to think that we are in control of our offspring. But just like children grow up, so do our systems. Human technologies have become so complex that they now behave like independent ecologies. Algorithms run the stock market. Computer viruses keep going long after their creators have set them free. Genetically modified organisms thrive in the wild. In this new world of wild, technological beasts, will humans be at the mercy of our monsters?

Staff Picks

Het ontstaan van leven: wetenschap én verbeelding

Er was eens… de aarde

Hoe slimmer technologie wordt, hoe belangrijker onze intuïtie wordt

Will 3D-printed mussel reefs be the next nature?

Time gets bendy in Disney Pixar's new film

Can AI become addicted?

‘Because of its Janus-faced powers, technology itself has become the sublime god of our (post)modern age’

The Technological Sublime

2011-07-17 00:00:00

Het sublieme is een esthetisch concept van 'het verhevene' van schoonheid die groots en gevaarlijk is. Door de 17e en ...

Machines of Loving Grace

Adam Curtis explores the notion that Ayn Rand influenced the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs of the 1990s to create a world where digital systems are more powerful than human ones.