The JAMA Network (the creator of the video) is the official website (and monthly journal) of the American Medical Association, with a special focus on “bio-technological” sciences. The A.M.A. is introduced as the largest medical association in the u.s (including medical students); therefore it is rather difficult to characterize it as “conspiracist” or “denier” (although you never know…).
mRNA…
What are these mRNA vaccines, the “genetic reprogramming” vaccines, that will “save” us and, about which, we need to know nothing but how miraculous they are? We presented them in …
the reset
… the pandemic will accelerate innovation even more, catalysing technological changes already under way (comparable to the exacerbation effect it has had on other underlying global and domestic issues) and …
Telecommuting: the metadata in the service for measuring work productivity
The measurement of productivity has taken various forms over time. The quantity of the produced product/service is the basic criterion. Initially, with overall characteristics – how much the factory produces. …
Whose health? (of the 4th industrial revolution!)
Digital technologies, human behavior data, and algorithmic decision-making are set to play an increasingly critical role in addressing future crises. As we increasingly place our hope for solving fundamental problems …
The data in the bank’s gis
400 million Indians will have to go through facial recognition to access their bank accounts. More than 400 million people in India who have bank accounts where benefits or various …
Robots don’t take our jobs. They become our supervisors!
Both politicians in their election campaigns and corporate executives at their conferences warn about an impending crisis due to automation – a crisis where workers will be replaced, gradually at …
Technologies that make us sick
In just six months, fever cameras have become a hyper-developed industry In October 2016, a company named Sunell, based in Shenzhen, conducted an experiment: it installed thermal cameras and facial …
Metadata: the data in the microscope
The estimated size of the digital universe by the end of 2020, according to the World Economic Forum, will be 44 zettabytes (44 quintillion bytes); 40 times more bytes than …
Human-X: the next generation
New evidence shows that modifying human embryos brings doom to DNA. Three studies conclude that the CRISPR gene-editing method is not safe. A few months ago, in June 2020, the …
Naked death: dancing to the rhythms of the state Danse Macabre
Death in the twentieth century has become a taboo…it has replaced sex as the quintessential forbidden subject. Philippe Ariès The image of death seems to be omnipresent in contemporary Western …
From mutations to “reprogramming”: the breakthrough of genetic engineering
Mutations may occur in all kinds of organisms randomly from the beginning of the world. But designed mutations, the diamond in the crown of biotechnologies in recent decades, quickly became …