Computer games as utopias of utopia

Even those who have never experienced computer games contributes to the Utopia. Both deal more with potential than with really. Utopia usually sketches a special possible condition very concretely to measure reality on it or both to put in any other relationship. But what do computer games?

Today, they do not do any more only what they did before a decade ago. For a long time, they gave their players to the goals to be achieved. Whether an enemy spaceship was defeated, as in 1962 in "Spacewar!", or a Konigreich had to be saved as in almost all episodes of role-playing "Ultima" since 1979, — always the player had to export the right movements at the right time, to say his game character the right records or to use certain objects. It was therefore above all to learn the laws of the game, then in accordance with these efficiently efficiently performed the right actions in order to achieve the objectives set by the game.

In Berlin, one discussed at a conference on the connection between computer science and rust

At the conference of computer science and rusts, which took place at the weekend in Berlin, the questioned question was, which share the military research in the development of information technologies and computer development had. For Joseph wheat tree, who lives recently in Berlin, the answer is clear. The computer is a child of the war. After the Second World War, nobody had thought of a meaningful further development. But with the Korea war, a new upswing began. The Pentagon awarded coarse orders, which were mostly civilian camouflaged. As a young mathematician of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with) wheat tree itself was involved in such works. The reputation as a haretian in the temple of high-tech credes is ahead of the 83-year-old. Accordingly, the open event was visited on Friday evening (see also: the insecure internet as a result of miserable militar technology).

On Saturday the number of those interested was clearly shrunk. In the presentation, security research, security research, the emergence of civil accommodation and the responsibility of computer scientists was debated. The media scientist Friedrich Kittler and the secret service researcher Erich Schmidt-Eenboom asked whether one can not speak of a departure of the technological war in recent years. As an example, the dispute between Israel and Hezbollah was called. While Israel has the most modern monitoring technologies available, Hezbollah was based on a network of informants that were forwarded to messages without technological aids. Kittler sent that the Afghan Taliban and the Iraqi camphor against the USA were to be accessed on archaic information that is often not scored by modern technology. He spoke in this context of the dark side of the technology. Accordingly, the success of these movements is above all in that they are not perceived by their old-fashioned war management of modern technology at all? Or is not the picture of the God Warrants operating with archaic methods to question themselves? These questions raised in the round could not be cliable, but Hezbollah does not seem to be as archaic, after all, she continues to operate its TV channel Al-Manar despite bombing, could obviously the radio traffic of the Israeli militar and was erupted with state-of-the-art anti-tank weapons.

A conversation with Marko Peljhan over its project Makrolab

Marko Peljhan started his private Infowar at the Documenta X. The Slovene lived forty days in his homemade laboratory Makrolab on Lutterberg in the nearby Kassel. From there he stopped in the phone calls, which ran over international telecommunications satellites during this period. The American Brain Springer, with which together he carried out the project, wrote later: "We took the sky about the Lutterberg as a lively booking… From the shelves we agree with pictures and data communications." The results of this stripes through the ather were documented on a website. Although Makrolab is not a network art in the narrower sense, because the Internet serves only to uniform the macrolab activities. But the project is a one in the long series of art -lerological works with satellites, which have been carried out in the last twenty years of artists and can be considered as a leader of network art.

Marko, you have worked as an artist a lot with radio and satellite instructions. How did you come to this?

Ravers phoned too much

The youth transmitter Fritz has sent a reporter on the Love Parade with a special headdress than Lovescout: the head adorned a data helmet, equipped with a camera and a mini screened data goggles. The camera was connected to a computer and video recorder. For Radio Fritz, for Radio Fritz should be tried, pictures, tones and texts from the place of TechnoSpectAkel directly live on the Internet. However, the overraranted mobile radio technology made the planned project prematurely the gardue.

Lovescout

Eye cameras, facial recognition and investigator

Open letter to Axel E. Fischer, CDU, the chairman of the Enquete Commission Internet and Digital Society.

Dear Axel E. Fisherman,

Problems with the Telecommunications Act, IT-SIG 2.0, Source TKU and other projects. Coarse network political blast. Expert calls law "catastrophe".

In the middle of work on a whole series of partly long-planned and demanded IT laws, the Federal Government is exposed to increasing criticism of experts and opposition politicians. Under time prere, they provide poor quality and burial monster, disregarded scientific foundations, undermining the security and sovereignty of the burger as well as industry and destructor trust in the state. Telepolis Has spoken with politicians and experts about some of the projects.

First, the amendment of the Telecommunications Act (TKG) and the IT Security Act 2 came 2.0 (IT-SIG 2.0), from the Bundestag on 22. and 23. April said goodbye, in many media well. "Fast internet for all" and "Finally safety against hackers", That’s good stuff, that were also worthwhile investments.

The fund for measures for the condition for climate change has been set up, on financing needs to be worked on

The World Climate Summit has its first night session behind. The so-called was prepared "High-level segment", in which the rising ministers and head of state take the negotiations. There are still many open points. If you can not get lost, there will be no or only a very weak Bali mandate for further climate protection negotiations at the end. A relatively high MAB to match the topics "Transfer of environmentally friendly technologies in developing and thresholders" and "MABS APPLY TO CONTRACT TO CLIMATE CHANGE" achieved.

It is clear that the technology transfer needs to be financed and organized, but the negotiations on what are stalked. While the development countries propose a new Fund Dafur, the US wants to put on an additional program within the existing demanding institutions.

In the Pentagon one tries the art of creative crafts or. the "Innovation on tactical level" to develop

Last week, there was a short pre-job in the Army Cyber Institute of the Ministry of Defense, which one informed proud of the publicity. Even US Defense Minister Ash Carter gave himself the honor as a soldier in West Point with a novel rifle took a drone out of the air, with neither a cartridge being shot down nor a rush to horen.

The mysterious weapon, which does not deport drones with a ball, is called cyber rifle or rifle with cyber capacity. So far, the rifle is only for "Shooting" Aligned by Parrot Quadcopters, but should also be extended to other tension types. Escaped with an antenna, a cheap Raspberry pi computer and a radio transmitter, as Popular Science reports. An already known vulnerability of the Parrot Quadcopter, which the command via an open Telnet port can be sent to switch off the engine. Even with a Parrot app, the control of the drone can be taken over.