After all, the most important health decisions are being made less and less at the doctor's office or the pharmacy, but rather in the supermarket or while shopping. Step by step, we are becoming aware of how we can use new technologies to increase our potential, hear better, see better, learn faster and thus outgrow ourselves.
The following graphic shows which technologies of happiness will expand us in the future - and in some cases already today:
Body/ Organs
Brain Computer Interface (BCI) - Using a brain-computer interface such as Neuralink, machines can be controlled with our thoughts.
Brainwave Sensors - Berkeley Ultrasound's brainwave sensors are used to treat depression, PTSD, TBI, Alzheimer's disease and dementia.EYES.
Smart Lenses - Google Verily & Alcon
Now: Using a glucose lens to monitor glucose levels.
Future: Information is added to objects from our environment.
NERVES
Bioelectronic drugs (implants) - e.g. Galvani Bioelectronics (joint venture bet. Verily & GlaxoSmithKline)
Bioelectronic medicine is an emerging scientific field. Its goal is to use tiny implantable devices to precisely alter electrical signals in nerves to treat debilitating chronic diseases.
COMBINED SENSES
Wearables - An interactive vest enables a new way of hearing. There are 32 tiny motors built into this vest. Each motor responds to a different sound frequency and then vibrates. This allows sounds to be perceived through the skin.
Eyeborg The device by artist Neil Harbissons converts colors into sounds. Harbison wears an eye tracker in front of his forehead. Via a pivoting arm, this is connected to a chip that has been surgically inserted into the skull wall. The chip in the eyeborg permanently converts color information into sound signals in order to transmit them to the skull bone.
BIONIC BODY PARTS
Bionic Hand - Bionic hand prostheses such as i limb ultra from Touch Bionics are connected to the brain via remaining nerves and transplanted muscle strands.
CELLS
DNA/Gene - Manipulating the genetic material in human cells, such as with CRISPR-CAS 9, extends the life cycle.
BLOOD
Biointegrated sensors (Dexcom Google or Lumee from Profusa) function as glucose monitors (CGM). Biocompatible implants monitor fluorescence, oxygen, glucose, lactate or other biomarkers in the blood.
STOMACH, INTESTINE
Microbiome testing and metabolic tech (Ubiome or Aire) provide information about the condition of the digestive tract based on microbes in the stool or gas levels in the blood.
HORMONE
The supply of Smart Drugs like Nootropics regulates the hormonal balance. The hormonal state becomes permanently controllable.
HEART
Artificial heart: pacemaker
Along with charging your cell phone at night, you charge your pacemaker battery.
SKIN
Microbiome testing: Microbes provide information about the condition of the skin flora.
Communication
MAN - MACHINE
Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)
Merging human intelligence with artificial intelligence for augmented intelligence: Entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently bought the neurotechnology company Neuralink. His goal: to develop a BCI suitable for everyday use that enables bidirectional communication between brain and computer. If this succeeds, machines could be operated by thought alone. Information or skills could be downloaded directly from the Internet and fed directly into the nerve networks.
MAN - PLANT
Human Plant Interface
Digital computing power meets biological matter and creates new perspectives in the interaction with our natural environment. The Florence project by artist Helene Steiner (Artist in Residence, Microsoft Research) shows that plants have their own language. With the help of a human-plant interface, electrochemical signals from plants can be translated into a language that humans understand. In this way, plants can communicate their needs to us.
HUMAN - ANIMAL
Human-Animal Interface
Scientists are currently working on developing technologies that will enable animals to talk to humans. The path: "animal-computer interaction." Research is being conducted into how technology ranging from GPS to wireless communication can be used.
MAN - ENVIRONMENT
Molecular Scanner - Connect with your Environment
With the help of the molecular scanner SCiO or its competitor product Tellspec, it is already possible to analyze the chemical composition of any object in our environment. Molecular scanners enable us to interact with our environment.
This is an excerpt from the GDI study "Wellness 2030: The New Techniques of Happiness". Click here to download for free!
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