Category: Design
Don’t Worry About Designer Babies – gene editing won’t work on complex traits like intelligence
Despite the successes in gene discovery of the past 10 years, our knowledge of the combined contribution of all genetic variants is too limited for embryo editing.
2015 – 2016 Stanford Longevity Design Challenge “
The Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge offers cash prizes and free entrepreneur mentorship in a competition open to all university students around the world who want to design products and services which optimize long life for us all.
How do our brains reconstruct the visual world?
Without the brain constantly computing as a visual processor, the visual information we receive through our eyes would remain a chaotic, jumpy mess.
Organic Interfaces; or, How Human Beings Augment Their Digital Devices
In theory, cell phones and other information and communication technologies (ICTs) are just a means for us to interact with people, businesses, and data sources.
Applied Examples of Analog Biomorphic Design (ICRA 2014)
This session was part of a large IEEE academic robotics conference) in Hong Kong; organized by Ben Goertzel, David Hanson, Mark Tilden and Gino Yu
Disruptive — Bioinspired Robots (Audio, 3 Parts)
Our bodies — and all living systems — accomplish tasks far more complex and dynamic than anything yet designed by humans.
Synthetic Selves
Synthetic bodies, mediated selves. What themes become relevant in a technoprogressive world – as objects proliferate, what do the inundated people talk about? You are alone, at a computer. You talk to people but they are not around.
The Internet of Badly Designed Things
It’s possible that internet-connected domestic devices could turn out to be ill-judged, poorly-designed, short-lived technological fads.