Bérénice

It is an interesting parallel with what anonymity has been doing on social media.

It also turns humans into the end effectors of these AI systems controlled by companies that don’t necessarily have human interests in mind.

Surfing dogs dodge big waves before huge crowd at Pacifica’s world championships - San Francisco Chronicle

Browsing back to the 2019 February issue of the #newyorker felt like going back to another world that doesn’t exist anymore. We are now living in digital world and it is only the beginning.

The Machine Stops The neurologist Oliver Sacks on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future.

In a letter drawn from a posthumous collection of correspondence, published in 2019, the neurologist Oliver Sacks argued that society had no immunity to the seductions of digital life. “What we are seeing—and bringing on ourselves—resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale,” he wrote.

In other words, Trans Rights aren’t a niche or fringe concern, but a core component of universal human rights.

Has biology, chemistry, etc. simply become more sexy in the early 2000? This time coincides with transformations enabled by genomics and other technologies. There were also more exciting interdisciplinary opportunities, including computational approaches.

Here is something true 🙂