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The Future of the Body

The Future of the Body. Natasha Vita-More Building Energy 2005. Why develop sustainable energy if we are not going to be around long enough to practice it? Why not develop a sustainable body? The answer might be obvious if we first look at some very serious facts.

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The Future of the Body

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  1. The Future of the Body Natasha Vita-MoreBuilding Energy 2005

  2. Why develop sustainable energy if we are not going to be around long enough to practice it? Why not develop a sustainablebody? The answer might be obvious if we first look at some very serious facts.

  3. Why a Sustainable Body? — Serious Facts Cause for Concern% of world population unfit % of world population overweight # of needless deaths Call for Awareness # of people over 100, and growing % of people who have transplants and implants % of people who receive chemicals (drugs) % of people with prosthetic parts % of people who undergo reconstructive, plastic or cosmetic surgery In the United States 60 % of more infrequently exercise 25% never exercise 6 out of 10 take medication to feel better Conservative 1/3 are overweight Conservative 14% suffer from depression 2 out of 5 die of heart disease Every 1.598 seconds a person dies Surgeon General’s office

  4. Body 3 Million BC 500,000 40,000 future Framing Advancing Resolving 2

  5. State of the Art Leading Ideas: Innovative Ideas in anti-aging technologies, brain microchip implants for neural interface, programmable blood, nanosensors Leading Events: Growing industry in human-computer interface, robotics, prosthetics, nanotechnology R&D Leading Authorities/Advocates: Dr. Michael West, Ray Kurzweil, Christopher Reeve, Dr. Aubrey de Gray 4

  6. Strategist’s Grab Bag of Ideas • Social – Society adapting changes of living longer and conflicts that will come about • Technological – Fast-paced accelerations change our lives • Environmental – Physical and virtual habitats • Economics – supply and demand • Political – Precautionary Principle vs. Proactionary Principle 9 Natasha Vita-More.World Futures.Module 1.Framing

  7. Amount of restriction on technologies Amount of research generated No. of New Diseases Amount of Public Awareness Innovation Future Body No. of Advocate Organizations No. of new body parts No. of Design Businesses Amount of Food Available No. of people living longer Cost of living Amount of resources No. of Job trainingprograms

  8. The Sustainable Body • A body that transports us in a variety of environments and provides us numerous communication ports. • One that maintains itself well in minimizing entropy when we process energy. The body of today cannot sustain us in the future. • We need a more durable, flexible and adaptive body.

  9. Evolving at the speed of Technology 2005 Primo Posthuman  body design

  10. Scientific Team — Dr. Max More, Strategic Philosopher Dr. Robert Freitas, NanomedicineDr. Michael Rose, Evolutionary BiologistDr. Greg Fahy, Cryobiologist Dr. Ralph Merkle, Nanotechnologist Dr. Marvin Minsky, Artificial IntelligenceAlexander Sasha Chislenko, Enhanced RealityDr. Roy Walford, GerontologistGregory Benford, PhysicistDr. Robin Hanson, EconomistDr. Vernor Vinge, SingularityDr. Hans Moravec, Robotics

  11. State of the Art Development • Architecture for Sustainable Body • Augmented Body • Augmented Immune System • Nanorobots, Nanosensors • Smart Skin • Energy efficient sensory texture and tint • Augmented Brain • Metabrain • Enhanced Reality • Autonomic computing • Neoteric nervous system • Nanorobots • Emotion Design • Energy saving dashboard

  12. Body Comparison Chart Traditional Body Limited Life spanLegacy genesWears outMakes random mistakesSingle viewpointGender restrictionProne to environmental damageEmotional distress Future Body AgelessReplaceable genesUpgradesError correctionMultiple parallel viewpointsGender changeabilityImpervious to environmental damageTurbocharged optimism Built to last, engineered to adapt.

  13. Solar protected skinwith tone and texture changeability._____________ Biosensors externally stimulate atmospheric tensions. Active integument management system keeps all outer surfaces totally smooth and wrinkle free (unless you choose wrinkles for effect), and maintains maximal suppleness and instant response to sudden demands for stretch and twist. Color control for instant blending in or standing out. Optional silicon carbide sheath enables you to become almost invisible. ActiveSkin makes clothing unnecessary and allows you to display written or pictorial messages to convey mood

  14. Metabrain

  15. body of the future Resolving Framing Advancing A variety of techniques are being developed to provide the communications bridge between the wet analog world of biological information processing and digital electronics.  Brain sensors to perform brain functions, and NEMS nanoelectromechanical for directing muscles to function. Primitive clinical neurochemical modification starting in the 1950s. Anti-tremor electrode implants, late 1990s. intricate interconnected collection of information processing organs. “Neuromorphic" modeling (i.e., reverse-engineering of brain and nervous system. Neural implants to fix damaged retinas. 3

  16. Emotion Design • An energy-saving dashboard of indicators and control instruments • The emotion dashboard's indicator checks anxiety levels and sends instant playback directly to the brain. Memory share takes the playback and projects it to friend-share, a network of sympaths. • The emotion dashboard carefully identifies mistakes and performs error-correction simulations providing opportunity for emotional growth.

  17. Why develop sustainable energy if we are not going to be around long enough to practice it? Why not develop a sustainablebody?

  18. PrecipiceCo-directed by Elizabeth James and Elizabeth Witham Precipice is a short digital video that plays host to a discussion about genetic engineering, bioethics, the future form of the human body, and the possibility of agelessness. FESTIVALS AND SCREENINGS:Student Academy Awards Regional Finalist, 2002 Crested Butte Reel Fest, 2002 Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin, 2002 President's Council on Bioethics Screening, 2002

  19. Building the Future Body Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them. Christopher Reeve I did all I can. Thank you for doing all you can. 10

  20. Whowill be the Designers?

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