Human enhancement: Out of chaos the phoenix arises

Wednesday, 12 de January de 2022



Even though Mankind is facing the most challenging moment and the collapse in the healthcare system caused by a biological threat, known as SARS-COV-2, in which this  invisible enemy has victimized more than 2.8 million people worldwide leading to death. A remarkable phenomenon has emerged that will benefit mankind on the enhancement of technology and moral values and its progress to a regenerate planet. That phenomenon is what we know as innovation and creativity.
 
A simple phrase can summarize what humanity has living nowadays, Out of chaos the Phoenix arises. The technology that humans have evolved from centuries combined to scientific knowledge could put in check one of the most precious abilities inherent to human beings, its capacity for creativity and innovation. During the pandemic a large variety of innovative solutions came up in different areas of society, from education to health tech 5.0. 
 
It is already the focus of discussion from futuristic experts that the future professions will be based on the essence of the man, the ability of creativity and innovation. Using Artificial intelligence (AI) humans will be able to create robots more intelligent and enable them to make decisions. Those robots will replace the majority of human work that is not related with creativity and innovation, benefiting humans to have more time to invest in themselves and knowlde. During the pandemic we could have a glance about what the future holds for us. We could visualise how creative can be the man toward chaos. 
  
                       

Author: Tássia Nunes

The vaccine process development is a very strict system that usually takes 10 to 15 years to get it out from laboratories and acceptable to immunize the population. However, in the first time in history the scientific community in a joint superhuman effort could revolutionize medicine and brought to the population a safe vaccine in less than 10 months. Saving many people’s lives that was sentenced to death.    
 
Not only the vaccines, but another innovative solution in the health system have emerged from the chaos caused from Covid 19, the telemedicine and the use of new human machine interaction in order to connect the population to doctors. Telemedicine was already known worldwide, however in many countries, such as in Brazil, this technology was not used and was rejected by the health service system.  
 
Nevertheless, during the pandemic some countries have used telemedicine technology in order to restore the health service. The results have been encouraging and scientists agreed that will revolutionize medicine post-pandemic. Telemedicine is a technology in which electronic devices such as, smartphones, tablets and computers are used to deliver medical service. Some of them are prescription of medicine, mental therapy and physiotherapy.
 

The recent use of virtual reality, mixed reality, IOT, internet 5G and serious games are also bringing another perspective of human machine interaction that will be applied in the future of telemedicine and health 5.0 and will enhance the experience of telepresence. Combining those technologies, wearables can be created to deliver and enhance sensorial neurofeedback between the users and the virtual and real world. 
 
Besides the medical field, education and professional meetings have also created innovative solutions to overcome the lockdown, and will remain post-pandemic. The creation of virtual environments and multiplayer serious games tend to rise, and will give the possibility of the sense of telepresence to its users. 
 
Multiplayers platforms have been used for the majority of the gamer community for entertainment purposes. However new platforms have emerged dedicated to serious purposes, in order to enhance the connection between people worldwide for education or professional meetings. The technology of serious games tends to rise in the next few years and become more popular.
 
In this regard, Brain Support corporation has developed Onlife. A multiplayer platform for educational purposes that combine pre colombian culture and futuristic insights in one environment. The platform can be used to gather people worldwide and discuss neuroscience and human behaviour in the same environment. Brain support game developers and neuroscientist teams are working to combine multiplayer serious games with IOT and human machine interface. 


             

Author: Tássia Nunes, Educar team and Brain Support developers, Onlife.


By using inertial and non inertial sensors, and prototyping board Arduino or Raspberry developers are able to create low cost IOT wearable, for instance smart clothes, smart watches, smart shoes, embedded systems to connect with virtual world (VR, MR, Web, Android, iOS). 
 

        

Author: Tássia Nunes, prototype smart cloth and glove for VR to enhance sensorial neurofeedback


Humans are naturally creative, that brainstorm of creation and innovation tends to potencialize during difficult moments. The ability to be creative comes since infancy, it is when without paradigms previously set up, free from adulthood overload of information, cultural stigma and dogmas, which come brilliant ideas and questions. In order to  enhance the next generation of mankind, the current humanity needs to understand the importance of education for kids and the support for freedom ideas that will impact worldwide. 


Reference:

  1. Young Chan Kim, Barbara Dema & Arturo Reyes-Sandoval. COVID-19 vaccines: breaking record times to first-in-human trials. Nature, 2020.

  2. Christoph Anthes,  Rubén Jesús García-Hernández, Markus Wiedemann, Dieter Kranzlmüller, State of the Art of Virtual Reality Technology. IEEE, 2016.

 

 





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Autor: Tassia Nunes
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