If you’re confused by your feelings, here’s some good (?) news: researchers from the renowned Berkeley have identified 27 categories of emotions: admiration, adoration, aesthetic appreciation, amusement, anger, anxiety, awe, awkwardness, boredom, calmness, confusion, craving, disgust, empathetic pain, entrancement, excitement, fear, horror, interest, joy, nostalgia, relief.
digital “mini womb”
A team of experts from China has created the world’s first mini-uterus on a chip that can fully reproduce the “implantation” of human embryos in the uterus during early pregnancy.
neurolink: cross section to transhumanism…
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 …