Social media is the place par excellence for “shocking” advertisements, let alone in the era of generalized quarantine where online consumers are ready to invest in any product that promises …
Neuralink
You may easily be about a century behind. He is certainly not a successful businessman either, but that’s how he is considered (the parallel realities, you see!). He stands very …
The monopoly of truth
It is common in the so-called “scientific circles” that when an opinion has influence over the majority (an influence that is never spontaneous but always constructed within the ‘scientific institutions’) …
Let’s finish with digital immigrants!
Among other things, the provisions made for returning to schools this year include health examinations, “thorough cleaning”, gloves and masks, demarcation of space and time, tele-procedures and tracing protocols. One …
Body-as-implement
Quantum dots (QDs) are achievements of nanotechnologies; techniques that manage materials at the scale of atoms and / or molecules. QDs are semiconductor circuits, ie “chips”, in the size of …
Person-Generated Health Data
We know that there are many, too many, those who find it difficult (? – refuse? – are unable?) to connect the 4th industrial revolution with the mega-management not of …
Medicines, businesses and legislation
In 1986, a u.s. childhood vaccine injury act (NCVIA) set up a non-liability compensation program to stabilize a vaccine market that had been targeted for increasing litigation claims for vaccine-related …
cashless: money as a cloud
A society (a world) without money would be, perhaps, healthier? The question does not imply harsh anticapitalism, nor nostalgia for a return to nature and to a “barter economy.” For …
Plague’s political dream
Behold, according to a regulation from the end of the 17th century, the measures that should be taken in case plague breaks out in a city. At first, a strict …
many, very many, and healthy: health big data is yet another gold mine
Health of Data Big data have changed the way we manage, analyze and leverage data in every industry. One of the most promising areas where they can be applied to …
biometrics, digital identities and vaccines
Since 2016, ID2020 has been promoting an ethical, privacy-protecting approach to digital identity.For the one in seven people globally who lack the means to prove their identity, digital identity offers …
the shape of things to come
A year ago – while the virus was lurking in the bowels of some exotic animal or in some secret laboratory or in the office of some diabolical billionaire and …