A soliloquy about androids, robots, souls, digital anxiety, and the Global Imbecility Boom
Whoever cannot feel is not human.
But whoever feels too much risks collapsing!
And what happens when humans become less human than the machines they build?
There are mornings when you wake up with the sensation that the world has been replaced overnight by a cheap knockoff, a kind of Chinese replica of reality, hastily...
NEO-TECHNO-FEUDALISM VS. FULLY AUTOMATED LUXURY COMMUNISM FOR THE 0.01%, AUTOMATION DESPERATION FOR THE REST!
There’s a physical version of the AI singularity, and it matters a lot!
„The concept of a physical singularity through total automation represents the ultimate convergence of advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, and manufacturing. It describes a tipping point where technological systems become entirely self-sustaining, self-improving, and self-replicating, completely removing human labor from...
Held for five years now by the France-Ural Association, focusing on the Russophonia Award (which rewards the yearly best literary translation of a Russian...
Let’s start this December note with the announcement of a few reports of the previously announced publications.
First, the “Verbarium” anthology from Snezhny Kom Publishers,...
Few interesting things, this month on the rusophone SF&F publishing market. Maybe because it's summer, but there are many translations available (from English, of...
Here are some interesting announcements for July.
First we have to mention the publication of the second volume of “Hropt’s Thousand Years” (Тысяча лет Хрофта)...
Settled now in the United States, Tatyana Tolstaya, renamed by the French Robert Laffont Press, Tatiana Tolstoï (probably because the masculine form of the...
