Michael Crichton already warned us half a century ago, through cinema, of the dangers that lie in wait for human beings when they play at being gods, unleashing their creative hand. Westworld (1973), apart from being the first film to introduce computer-generated images in two dimensions, already advanced us in a certain way the concept of artificial intelligence… and its possible consequences. Read More
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Invisible Ammunition in the I Global War
In the First Global War against the human soul the enemy has replaced its heavy artillery by propaganda and manipulation… Apparently harmless ammunition, but with an effective penetration and destruction capacity… Read More
Mr. Pill and the Hippocratic Oath
Doctor Harmmert consulted at the only health center in his hometown, Preskreeps Town, a place where he was considered a kind of protective god on Earth who had a remedy for everything and everyone, even those rude and ungrateful neighbors who suspected Angel Face’s professionalism and diligence… Read More
The Constitution, the Law of Laws
The Constitutional laws, or State Constitution, are those that constitute, institute or define the political organization of the State. These are Fundamental Laws of superior rank that limit the action of power. The leaders who establish the rules or who contribute to establish them can get rid of them more easily. When it is applied and it is a true Constitution-law, its application is not as rigorous as that of the Civil Code or that of the Penal Code. Read More
Amundsen, the Cabin Boy Who Conquered the South Pole
Spirit of emulation, thirst for adventure, extraordinary capacity for work, but also great generosity are the traits that define the exceptional figure of Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer whose name is linked to two important milestones in the history of geographical discoveries: the Northwest Passage and the conquest of the South Pole. Read More
Minotaur: The Beast of the Labyrinth
If in a bullfight the animal usually stands to lose at the hands of human beings, there is a greek myth that tells how a kind of monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull used to succeed when some human crossed its path… Read More
The Red Tent: Nobile's Odyssey
During the years in which Charles Lindbergh prepared his flight across the Atlantic, in Italy a prominent aeronautical technician, General Umberto Nobile, concentrated his efforts on another aspect of aerial navigation: the airship; A year before Lindbergh’s flight, he had successfully flown over the North Pole, leading the airship Norge, accompanied by Amundsen. Read More
Prometheus and the Legend of Fire
In the town of Mekone, gods and humans once met to decide once and for all which parts of the sacrificed animals should belong to one or the other. As it concerned the gods, and Zeus in particular, to choose first, Prometheus concocted a stratagem in favor of humans, even knowing that he would pay a high price for it… Read More
The Northwest Passage
When he arrived in America, Christopher Columbus set out to find a communication route with the Indies faster than the circumnavigation of Africa. The discovery, in the middle of the ocean, of such a large area of land opened up an unsuspected horizon for Spanish colonization and, in a certain sense, changed the history of the world. From the point of view of the problem that Columbus had raised, there is no doubt that the existence of the American continent was an enormous hindrance. For this reason, almost the day after the arrival on American soil, attempts began to discover a sea passage between the Atlantic and the other great ocean, the Pacific, which was on the other side of the New World. Read More
'Soylent Green', Future Grub
The cinema has sometimes been a perfect tool to transfer to fiction the future existence of dystopian societies, devastated by misery and despair, whose degree of dehumanization would seem impossible to achieve in a supposedly civilized world like ours. However, one of those films, released almost half a century ago, and whose plot curiously takes place in the year 2022, is full of disturbing and creepy winks to the present moment. Read More
