
Letter from the Editor on Medicine and the Body in Tech

Technology has always been a double edged sword, bringing us longer and healthier life spans, freedom from physical and mental drudgery, and many new creative possibilities on the one hand, while introducing new and salient dangers on the other. However, the means and knowledge will soon exist in a routine college bioengineering lab (and already ex... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
the long list of binaries: Tech is dehumanizing, tech brings liberation. Tech dragged the world into the mess it’s in, tech frees it from this mess. Tech creates isolation, tech connects marginalized communities. The difficult work that we face is to live and thrive beyond binaries and assumptions, and to aid and enable others to do so.
Xiaowei Wang • Blockchain Chicken Farm

Matzinger challenged the idea that the human body is as interested in “the self” as nineteenth-century