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 …
gadgets of pandemic
The futuristic building of Menai Science Park in wales predisposes imagination that something very important is happening there. As a branch of Bangor University and with a budget of 20 …
award for genetic cutting and sewing
Crispr / cas9 technology can be dangerous. But for the Nobel Prize committee, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna, inventors of the method, deserved this year’s “Nobel Prize in Chemistry”. …
predictive algorithms
The canadian company bluedot, founded in 2013, offers communicable disease mapping services. According to founder Kamran Khan, the sars pandemic in 2002-04 was the reason for starting this business. This …
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’) …
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 …
Health as capital
The aim of this study is to construct a model of the demand for the commodity “good health”. The central proposition of the model is that health can be viewed …
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 …
Digital prisons
The (digital) file of everything, through a “digital health-identity”, is not just a dream of mr. Bill – the Lord of the Gates and Windows – and of all those …
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 …