Wider explorations
Explorations of technology, institutions and human agency beyond the immediate boundaries of diagnostics.
Questions
Places represented
Geographic perspectives within this idea territory.
A curated route into the central arguments, rather than a chronological dump.
I brought ten years of medical reports, wearable data, training records and personal notes into one AI-assisted health dashboard. What became visible changed my conversations with health professionals, and my view of what AI health companies can defensibly sell.
Read →“The purpose of a thought-experiment … is not to predict the future … but to describe reality, the present world.” – Ursula K. Le Guin A few weeks ago I watched a video of a humanoid robot learning to fight. A Chinese-made bipedal machine, trained by reinforcement learning, discovering how to destabilise another bipedal opponent….
Read →By José Pereira Leal To the memory of Gordon Hisashi Sato (1927–2017), Scientist extraordinaire who inspired me, and many others, to imagine new rivers through the desert. Like many of his generation who witnessed the horrors of World War II, he dedicated his science and life to the service of humanity Image created with ChatGPT…
Read →The European Union proclaimed its 1+ Million Genomes initiative in April 2018, with 26 Member States committing to create federated genomic infrastructure. Six years later, we can’t even determine how many genomes Europe has actually sequenced. 🇪🇺 EU 27 Countries: ??? genomes completed – No consolidated reporting after 6 years Try finding the actual genome…
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