Geneva and its research laboratories (CERN/LHC, The Blue Brain/Human Brain Project etc) has been marked as the central nexus for extinction fears and extra-dimensional anxieties. Fictions in the form of comic books (Indigo Prime Anthropocalypse 2013 and Ivar the Timewalker 2015) and movies (Angels & Demons 2009 and Decay 2012) as well as research centers such as the Cambridge Project for Existenti
al Risk have been channeling these fears and anxieties that converge upon Geneva. Zero Department offers to dig out all the dirty and unstructured data, to parse for you all the "unlikely", "unconfirmed", "unofficial", "unsupported", "untestable", "unverified or unverifiable" ways to explore the future in present time as a working hypothesis. Zero Department is not interested in mere wikileaks material but in all the subtle cognitive and non-cognitive reverberations, unsuspected fallout of theoretical models and incipient cultural shocks accumulating at the very spot where the most basic laws of the universe are being put the test in huge subterranean tunnels, right under some of the most green and innocuous landscape of Europe. Geneva is also the place where the development of cutting edge neuromorphic computing systems is being fostered to test the Intense World Theory of autism (Kamita Markram and Henry Markram) as well as a potential site for the emergence of Superintelligent life-forms that could spontaneously generate the replacement of humanity (Nick Bostrom) as a subgoal. And finally, after 200 years, Geneva should be known for something else than generating nightmarish Frankenstein creatures and start adopting and adapting to current debates and concerns at the bleeding edge of science and technology.
