For a moment, everything goes quiet. Not only the noise fades, but even the faintest bodily sensations seem to disappear. Does it sound like paradise?…
Posts published in February 2026
You’re standing in front of a watchmaker’s window, watching the precise sweep of the hands and the quiet choreography of interlocking gears. Every movement looks…
You pull an old photograph from a stack and it stops you cold. It’s faded and timeworn, unmistakably from another era—yet the street looks like…
Which is more terrifying – discovering we’re not alone in the universe, or discovering we are? While humanity has spent decades searching for signals from…
Imagine a courtroom. The prosecutor presents evidence; an algorithmic risk score enters the picture. A verdict is reached—and then appealed. Then comes the uncomfortable question:…
It might surprise you that your choice of a specific cereal box is often predetermined before you even lay eyes on it. The shelf layout,…
In a dusty workshop in Prague, surrounded by tangled cables and blinking displays, a quiet revolution is unfolding. It’s not about building a new humanoid…
In 1770, Wolfgang von Kempelen unveiled his ‘Turk’—a mechanical chess player that fascinated Europe. Although it was later revealed to be a hoax featuring a…
Words have become the new programming language. Instead of syntax and algorithms, a well-formulated sentence is enough – and modern generative (often multimodal) models will…
Silence is usually understood as nothing more than the absence of sound. Yet it also points to something deeper: an inner space in which thoughts,…