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- Elon Musk's Brain Chip Company Is Preparing to Launch Human TrialsIn Transhumanist Revolutions·February 16, 2022"Elon Musk's brain chip company Neuralink appears to be gearing up to launch its first-ever human trials, with the firm now looking to recruit a director to run the tests. According to The Guardian, the entrepreneur, who owns a variety of science-based start-ups, is preparing to take Neuralink's brain chip research to the next stage by hiring a mission-driven Clinical Trial Director to begin human testing. The company is moving toward potentially finding a way to use the technology to treat people with brain and spinal injuries." Source: https://bit.ly/3GYMhSp #Transhumanism #BrainChip #ElonMusk007
- We Need Hotels For Work, Not Rented Office SpaceIn Smart Spaces·December 8, 2021"Pre-pandemic, companies like WeWork made money providing a new form of the office for the rising army of workers no longer tied to one employer but who wanted to ‘go to work’ some of the time. With no one traveling, employment precarious and people financially worried, instead of asking for a monthly office rental commitment, where people share space with strangers, it makes more sense to turn hotels into day offices. Where people can socialise as little or as much as they like, where they can use the facilities which already exist and help hotels bounce back from the pandemic." Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2020/09/02/wework-is-wrong-we-need-hotels-for-work-not-office-space/?sh=74c7569219f2 #Office #HotelsForWork #RentedOfficeSpace005
- Helios launches novel concept for global healthcare with C4U2BE (Leipzig, Germany)In The Future of Health·April 19, 2022"For Helios, the opening on April 4 lays the foundation for now starting offer to establish flexibly adaptable digital, telemedical and physical units worldwide with CUBE, where people have not had sufficient access to medical care. "Often, the necessary financial resources and qualified personnel are lacking to establish their local medical infrastructure across the board. CUBE offers exactly that: we transport quality medicine digitally to the world from our existing network of medical experts. This means that only minimal investment in technical infrastructure is required locally," explains Dr De Meo." Source: https://bit.ly/3jOqfc3 (just in German) #Health #HealthCare #Cube0016
- Can AI solve the post-Covid cancer crisis?In The Future of Health·December 8, 2021"Artificial intelligence (AI) has long been on a reputational white-knuckle ride. One day it is hailed as a revolutionary cure-all. The next, as such promises go unfulfilled, despairing researchers walk away. It is a “hype cycle” that has plunged the field into repeated “AI winters” ever since Alan Turing proposed his test of machine intelligence" Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/can-ai-solve-post-covid-cancer-crisis/ #AIHealth #ArtificialIntelligenceHealth #PostCovidCancer006
- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak wants to clean up space junk with new companyIn Towards a Global Science ·January 30, 2022Instead of joining the billionaire space race and thinking about space tourism, co-founder of Apple Steve Wosniak has decided to center his attention towards tackling the orbital debris problem "Apple's co-founder plans to bring disruption to a new industry: the long-standing effort to clean up dangerous space junk." "A narrator boldly summarizes the company's vision amid dazzling stock pictures of spaceflight and climate change. "This isn’t a race. It isn’t a competition. Or a game. We are not one person, one company, one nation. We are one planet," the video states, without clearly elucidating what the company plans to do." Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a7A1w1C2TE&feature=emb_logo Source: https://www.space.com/apple-cofounder-steve-wozniak-space-junk-company #climatechange #space #garbage004
- Scientists used a tiny brain implant to help a blind teacher see letters againIn Transhumanist Revolutions·February 16, 2022"A former science teacher who's been blind for 16 years became able to see letters, discern objects' edges — and even play a Maggie Simpson video game — thanks to a visual prosthesis that includes a camera and a brain implant, according to American and Spanish researchers who collaborated on the project. The test subject had the implant for six months and experienced no disruptions to her brain activity or other health complications, according to an abstract of the study that was published this week in The Journal of Clinical Investigation." Source: https://n.pr/3HZYaJh #Transhumanism #implant008
- COVID-19 and Well-being: Life in the PandemicIn The Future of Health·February 7, 2022"COVID-19 and Well-being: Life in the Pandemic explores the immediate implications of the pandemic for people’s lives and livelihoods in OECD countries. The report charts the course of well-being – from jobs and incomes through to social connections, health, work-life balance, safety and more – using data collected during the first 12-15 months of the pandemic. It also takes stock of what has happened to human, economic, social and natural capital that, beyond their effects on people’s lives today, shape living conditions for years to come. It shows how COVID-19 has had far-reaching consequences for how we live, work and connect with one another, and how experiences of the pandemic varied widely, depending on whether and where people work, their gender, age, race and ethnicity, education and income levels. The report also examines the role that well-being evidence can play in supporting governments’ pandemic recovery efforts. It argues that a well-being lens can prompt policy-makers to refocus on the outcomes that matter the most to people, to redesign policy content from a more multidimensional perspective, to realign policy practice across government silos, and to reconnect people with the public institutions that serve them." I am wondering about the after-effects of corona? What policies will shift/adapt/ stay the same? How the approach of education and work will develop and generally how wellbeing will be treated in society. What are your thoughts? Source: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/covid-19-and-well-being_1e1ecb53-en006
- Researchers Have Identified The Diet to Follow if You Want to Live as Long as PossibleIn The Future of Health·May 2, 2022"Depending on the genes you were dealt, your body could be destined for a long, healthy future that stretches on for decades to come. Of course, your fate isn't etched in stone. The diet you eat – and the way you eat it – could determine just how many of those prescribed days will be seen in good constitution." #Diet #Health #HealthyLifestyle Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/this-researcher-describes-the-kind-of-diet-to-follow-if-you-want-to-live-as-long-as-possible004
- Five Couples Agree to CRISPR Their Babies to Avoid DeafnessIn The Future of Health·March 14, 2022"Denis Rebrikov wants to use CRISPR to create more gene-edited babies — and he already knows who their parents might be. In June, the Russian biologist told Nature he planned to gene-edit human embryos and then bring them to term. To date, only one person — Chinese scientist He Jiankui — has ever openly produced gene-edited babies, with the claim that the edits would prevent the babies from inheriting their fathers’ HIV. On Thursday, Rebrikov told New Scientist he has five pairs of Russian parents eager to let him gene-edit their embryos for a different and socially loaded reason: to prevent the offspring from inheriting their parents’ deafness. Rebrikov told New Scientist that each parent interested in his study is deaf due to mutations in their GJB2 gene. When two people with those mutations reproduce, the child is guaranteed to be born deaf." Source: https://futurism.com/five-couples-crispr-babies-avoid-deafness #deafness #CRISPR006
- What if there are permanent cyberwars, information wars, economic wars and company wars (instead of nation state wars)?In Geopolitical Reconfiguration·June 16, 2022003
- Anthropogenic and non anthropogenic methane: does it matter?In Climate & Geoengineering·February 10, 2022Methane is a very potent greenhouse gas - at least 28 times more potent that CO2, but considerably more short lived. As global methane concentrations soar over 1,900 parts per billion, some researchers fear that global warming itself is behind the rapid rise. Scientists raise alarm over ‘dangerously fast’ growth in atmospheric methane (nature.com)008
- Do behavioural inducements work?In Climate & Geoengineering·April 25, 2022Using nudging to induce behavioural change has been very popular in policy circles, especially in relation to the environment and climate. Some see it as a substitute for heavy law-making processes, others see it as a complement of regulation. In any event, it has become a feature of contemporary policy-making. Does it work? Some lessons from US traffic management systems... Can behavioral interventions be too salient? Evidence from traffic safety messages (science.org)002
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