The paper asks if debates on the plausibility of specific representations of the future, among policy-makers as well as the scholars studying them, rest upon a more fundamental implausible Utopian hope that conceals the vast transformative power of science and technology on the human condition. If...
Science Fiction, Ethics and the Human Condition的书评 ···(全部 0 条) 读书笔记 ··· 我来写笔记 按有用程度 按页码先后 最新笔记 展开 The Final Frontier .(Being a superfluous woman) 这一章节所讨论的科幻类型 The Final Frontier ,虽然看起来这的确是一个「生存压倒一切」作为最高要求的背景设定...
Independently developed by the Chongqing Jinshan Science and Technology (Group) Co Ltd (CJST), the OMOM capsule endoscope, a new kind of non-invasive and painless intelligent diagnostic instrument for digestive diseases, will now be available in an increased number of countries following approval by...
“The ongoing challenge,” saysDesney S. Tan, CHI 2011 general conference chair and senior researcher atMicrosoft Research Redmond, “is to make computing more accessible by integrating technology seamlessly into our everyday tasks, to understand and enhance the human condition like never before.” ...
Decision-makers objectively commit to a definitive choice, yet at the subjective level, human decisions appear to be associated with a degree of uncertainty. Whether decisions are definitive (i.e., concluding in all-or-none choices), or whether the under
Numerous studies have used human pluripotent stem cell-derived cerebral organoids to elucidate the mystery of human brain development and model neurological diseases in vitro, but the potential for grafted organoid-based therapy in vivo remains unknown.
Modern science and technology have helped to greatly reduce the back-breaking labour involved in farming,along with the reliance on luck and guesswork.2 Probably one of the most beneficial innovations is drip irrigation,which has made it possible to develop big,green farms in the middle of the ...
Against strict egalitarian and libertarian, the AI-designed mechanism was also more popular under all five endowment distributions tested, ranging from full equality to the most unequal endowment condition ((10, 2, 2, 2) implies a Gini coefficient (a measure of wealth inequality) of 0.38, roughl...
Augmenting the body with artificial limbs controlled concurrently to one’s natural limbs has long appeared in science fiction, but recent technological and neuroscientific advances have begun to make this possible. By allowing individuals to achieve otherwise impossible actions, movement augmentation could...