The threat and the promise (a genealogy) …We need to achieve symbiosis with artificial intelligence, in order to achieve the democratization of intelligence. How will we start? By implanting a …
Sexuality 6.0
If the “objects of desire”, while remaining “objects”, also become additionally “virtual”, “AI generated”, will the problems of morality (and the economy!) of conservative, alternative, or whatever else be solved? …
Clothes complete the perceptions
The suit in the above photograph looks like diving equipment. No: it is advertised as the essential accessory for the enjoyable entrance into the “metaverse”. With 90 sensors/electrodes it ensures …
The body as a datacenter: data storage and processing in DNA
According to experts, we have a serious problem that needs to be addressed soon: the volume of data is continuously increasing, to a point where the infrastructures for its mass …
The Internet of Bodies: the body as a technological platform
Less than ten years have passed since the Internet of Things was making headlines and fueling the dreams of tech enthusiasts everywhere. Smart clothes that can gauge your mood and …
Bread and spectacles – vaccines and sports
Great vision over the streets, like autumn leavesthe cries were scattered.The city had been lost beneath the lights, the flags, theshouting. We were celebrating the victory. But at the same …
The dream of transhumanism is a nightmare!
… Historian David Channel sees the current phase of our culture as the merging of two distinct ideals of the Western world regarding the order of the organic world (“the …
Genetics, biometrics and the “informatization of the body”
Introduction In a work devoted to biometrics, it might not seem obvious to devote much attention to genetics. Genetics is a very special case within the category of biometric technologies; …
Smart skin
It has all the makings to move the hipsters: printing electronic circuits directly on the skin. Tattoo parlors will acquire an electronics section, and the human body will finally fulfill …
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 …
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 …
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 …