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ECONOMIC FUTURES - Exploring Biodigital Convergence

6 Feb 2020

The physical meshing, manipulating, The coevolution of biological and digital and merging of the biological and digital sciences and technologies enables progress are creating new hybrid forms of life in each domain that would be impossible and technology, each functioning in the otherwise. [...] 2 3 Coevolution of Conceptual convergence biological and digital of biological and digital systems technologies Conceptual convergence involves a shift Coevolution emerges in perspective that could reshape our when advances in one domain framing and approach to biological generate major advances and digital realms, facilitating the in the other. [...] data may also be an important asset in For example, the field of bioinformatics the form of genomes, phenotypes, and uses digital tools and data analysis to environmental contexts of a diverse set understand biological systems,59 including of humans and a wide range of unique deploying deep learning algorithms to organisms. [...] At the centre of the scandal is the fact that the supermarket is essentially selling access to the minds of “Your Choice” members, outsourcing targeted consumer manipulation on a massive scale.  Inspired by: Towards new human rights in the age of neuroscience and neurotechnology67 39 . [...] 42 What are some initial policy questions? Is the current tax framework suited for the Do public finance systems need to be biodigital world? reassessed to be sustainable in the The characteristics of the digital domain biodigital world? could extend to the biodigital domain, In addition to the benefits of longer making it difficult to track and collect lives, increased life expectancy could taxes.
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