In this blog post, following Karl Marx’s Capital, we examine the structure of labor value and surplus value, calmly tracing the operating principles of capitalism where poverty persists despite hard work. Marx’s Life and Materialist Dialectics The free market system Adam Smith described gradually took on the form of capitalism throughout the 19th century. However, the suffering...
This blog post examines how women’s consumption is linked to emotions, relationships, and anxiety, making them a core marketing target, while calmly analyzing how capitalism designs consumer psychology. The Crown Jewel of Marketing: Women’s Marketing What about adults? In adult marketing, the most crucial target is women. ‘Women’s marketing’ is even called the crown jewel...
This blog post explores how Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity has impacted modern science and our daily lives. Discover how its revolutionary concepts of time and space transformed technology and ways of thinking. The theory of relativity is divided into the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity. Relativity is not merely a set of physical laws; it...
This blog post delves deeply into whether AI is truly a being capable of ‘thinking’ like humans, or if it is just a machine that imitates intelligence. What is AI? It’s easy to see that AI stands for Artificial Intelligence. AI is often interpreted as systems that mimic knowledge of human behavior to act accordingly. For example, AlphaGo, which defeated Lee Sedol at Go, or the...
Can artificial intelligence surpass not only human logical thinking but also creativity? AlphaGo’s emergence made us rethink AI’s potential and limitations beyond simple technological innovation. Let’s explore the changes brought by deep learning and the future of AI together. In 2016, AlphaGo, a Go program developed by Google DeepMind, created a globally significant...
This blog post explores how technology is transforming human roles and identity as rapidly evolving artificial intelligence now possesses creativity and begins encroaching on our unique domain. How long can we continue to call a window a window? If we remove the glass from the window frame and replace it with a translucent solar panel, using the electricity it generates to light the house...
This blog post explores whether Albert Einstein’s genius was innate or the result of education and environment, examining the influence of both factors on human development. Introduction We may wonder whether Albert Einstein was truly a natural-born genius or if he became one through nurture and environment. It is certainly worth discussing whether his exceptional intelligence and...
This blog post examines the limitations of the AC system that has dominated power for 130 years and explores why DC is gaining renewed attention. At the end of the 19th century, when electricity was first invented, humanity stood at a historic crossroads, needing to establish a standard for power supply. It was clear electricity would become the power source for industry and homes, and the...
This blog post examines how London and New York addressed urban overcrowding through suburbanization during the 19th-century industrial era. London, the heart of Britain—the land where the sun never sets, home to Oxford and Shakespeare—and New York, often called America’s second capital, a global financial hub, and an indispensable city in America’s early development. These...
This blog post examines the intellectual currents exploring how the revolutionary changes in 16th-century Western astronomy sought to harmonize with China’s traditional thought. In the early 16th century, the heliocentric theory emerged in the West as an alternative to the geocentric model. The reform in astronomy that began at this point transcended mere scientific change, leading...