Ferenc Kömlődi

In the first half of the 1990s, as the internet became the most important medium, he began to deal with human-machine relationships and the impact of infocommunication technologies on humans and society.

Since the mid-1990s, he has published in various online and offline journals analyzing the relationship between technology and culture and presenting transhumanism. After the publication of his book on the then emerging cyberculture (Fénykatedrális, Kávé Kiadó, 1999), he worked for the Tech section of Index.hu.

Between 2003 and 2011, he edited the first Hungarian artificial intelligence portal, Agent Portal, operated by AITIA Zrt. This work was related to his volume of interviews with Hungarian researchers in artificial intelligence (AI) (Artificial Intelligence and its Borderlands, Akadémiai Kiadó, 2007).

Between 2005 and 2010, he participated in the Information Society Technological Perspectives (IT3) futurology project led by Bálint Dömölki of the National Communications and Informatics Council (NHIT), the results of which were published in the volume Informatics in the Sky and on Earth (Typotex, 2008).

Since 2011, he has been the editor of the monthly News Magazine of the Hungarian National Assembly. Since 2013, he has been writing the FreeDee Printing Solutions blog, the first Hungarian-language blog about 3D printing. In 2012, he participated in the editing of the Infotér blog, and between 2015 and 2017, he was the editor of the Mandiner Digit column, where he presented the most future-oriented infocommunication technologies.

He has given lectures on infocommunication technologies (primarily artificial intelligence, robotics, virtual worlds) and futures research at numerous conferences, festivals, etc.