14 articles
Nadav Neuman
Humanity has found a new hobby: asking artificial intelligence if it has developed consciousness, and being alarmed by the answer.…
Uri Aviv
Reflections on Effective Altruism and religious fundamentalism. The End of Days, everlasting Utopias and Messianic times have occupied human imagination,…
Mushon Zer-Aviv
Methodological notes for a political imagination workshop
Is it still possible to imagine a utopia, and if so, how? Fifty years ago, Ursula K. Le Guin wrote…
Shalev Moran
A critical look at the history of emotional labor and services given to humans by robots and AI
Yanai Sened
Robo-phobia is a modern incarnation of the ancient fear of our own descendants. It can teach us about our relationship…
A historical and personal voyage through the past 30 years of face coverings and masks, and through the uncanny anxieties…
Gadi Rimer
Homecoming in three journeys to space
Thoughts about the uncanny year, the enemy within, and how repressed uncanny angst gave rise to the belief that Hillary…
Geraldine de Bastion
Whilst we are teaching our machines to be creative, let us retain that creativity ourselves and explore what we can…
Pablo Utin
Futuristic-dystopian ghost stories- the shattering of definitions, boundaries, and genres is the message of Mattie Do, a cinema pioneer from…
Gili Ron
Hyperobjects in Architecture
What do the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the fictional god Cthulhu, and a computer game in which we manufacture…
Eden Kupermintz
Designing Tomorrow through SF Methodology: from Speculative Fiction and Design to Speculative Policy