BIODIGITAL CONVERGENCE per Government of Canada
VIVE LA FRANCE!!!!! Macron si tu continue, il va faire tout noire chez toi.
Image from Government of Canada.
Are digital technologies being embedded in organisms. The answer is yes.
The alternative title for this publication is “Economic Futures”.
WHO PUBLISHED IT
“Policy Horizons Canada (Policy Horizons) is a strategic foresight organization within the Government of Canada with a mandate to help the Government develop future-oriented policy and programs that are more robust and resilient in the face of disruptive change on the horizon. The content of this document does not necessarily represent the views of the Government of Canada, or participating departments and agencies.”
WHY IS CANADA INTERESTED IN IT
“In the coming years, biodigital technologies could be woven into our lives in the way that digital technologies are now. Biological and digital systems are converging, and could change the way we work, live, and even evolve as a species. More than a technological change, this biodigital convergence may transform the way we understand ourselves and cause us to redefine what we consider human or natural.”
Later they mention it as an “Opportunity.”
WHO BROUGHT THIS FORTH
Kristel Van der Elst
Director General
Policy Horizons Canada
WHO DO THEY WANT TO WORK WITH?
Is it you? No. Its ‘partners and stakeholders’
Partners and stakeholders: they are NGOs, or companies exploiting this technology for profit. Perhaps that’s part of what people call the ‘deep state’. They care how the convergence affects sectors and industries. But how about us? We are literally being forced down a test tube without our consent. We aren’t even a stakeholder. We are the contents of the test tube.
“We want to engage with a broad spectrum of partners and stakeholders on what our biodigital future might look like, how this convergence might affect sectors and industries, and how our relationships with technology, nature, and even life itself could evolve.”
3 ways biodigital convergence is emerging
First: Full physical integration of biological and digital entities
“Digital technology can be embedded in organisms, and biological components can exist as parts of digital technologies. The physical meshing, manipulating, and merging of the biological and digital are creating new hybrid forms of life and technology, each functioning in the tangible world, often with heightened capabilities.
Robots with biological brains01 and biological bodies with digital brains02 already exist, as do human-computer and brain-machine interfaces.03 The medical use of digital devices in humans04, as well as digitally manipulated insects such as drone dragonflies05 and surveillance locusts06, are examples of digital technology being combined with biological entities. By tapping into the nervous system and manipulating neurons, tech can be added to an organism to alter its function and purpose. New human bodies and new senses of identity07 could arise as the convergence continues.”
Second: Coevolution of biological and digital technologies
“This type of biodigital convergence emerges when advances in one domain generate major advances in the other. The coevolution of biological and digital sciences and technologies enables progress in each domain that would be impossible otherwise. This could lead to biological and digital technologies that are developed as integrated or complementary systems.
Complex living systems – bacteria, fungi, plants, and animal life including humans – are increasingly subject to examination and understanding by digital tools and applications such as machine learning. This deeper understanding, enabled by digital technologies, means that biology is subject to influence and manipulation that was not possible a few years ago.
For example, gene sequencing combined with artificial intelligence (AI) leads to understanding genetic expression, which is then used to alter existing organisms to create organic compounds in new ways08 or even entirely synthetic organisms.09 The CRISPR/Cas9 approach and other new gene editing techniques would have been impossible without the evolution of digital technology and bioinformatics. Advances in digital technologies have helped the advancement of the biodigital.10
We also see a greater understanding of biology, which is fueling progress in the field of biological computing. Neural nets – computer systems that are designed based on biological brains – are an example of how biological understanding is shaping digital technology.
There is also a blurring between what is considered natural or organic and what is digital, engineered, or synthetic. For example, biosynthetic vanilla is created using ferulic acid, eugenol, and glucose as substrates, and bacteria, fungi, and yeasts as microbial production hosts. Although it does not come from a vanilla plant, under both U.S. and EU food legislation, its production from “microbial transformations of natural precursors” allows it to be labelled as a “natural flavoring”.11
Third: Conceptual convergence of biological and digital systems
What new capabilities are opening up?
What combinations of biological and digital technologies allow this?
What is possible today?
The Following are the New ways to change human beings – our bodies, minds, and behaviours according to the publication.
Altering the human genome – our core biological attributes and characteristics
Advances in gene sequencing and editing, such as CRISPR/Cas9
Machine learning helps scientists predict which genes to target for editing
Monitoring, altering and manipulating human thoughts and behaviours
Neurotechnologies read brain signals to monitor attention and manage fatigue
Digital apps can help enhance brain health
SAP and EMOTIV collaborate to help SAP employees manage stress16
Americans spent $1.9 billion last year on apps to keep their brains sharp17
New ways to monitor, manage, and influence bodily functions, as well as predict, diagnose, and treat disease
Gene sequencing entire samples helps us understand complex environments such as the human microbiome
Digital devices can be worn or embedded in the body to treat and monitor functionality
Machine learning systems can predict mortality and treatment outcomes
Guardant’s liquid biopsy proves more accurate and faster than tissue biopsy in patients with lung cancer18
University of Waterloo researchers develop a self-powering sensor for medical monitoring19
Amazon patent will allow Alexa to detect a cough or a cold20
Creating new organs and enhancing human functionality
3D-printed tissues based on digital designs and production tools can create customized organs
Biohacking with implanted digital devices to enhance bodily functions
Bioengineers successfully 3D printed structures that mimic lung tissue and blood vessels22
Lab-grown kidneys shown to be fully functional in animal recipients23
Implanted chips for a highly personal version of two-factor authentication24
New ways to experience and interact with the world
Brain-machine interfaces that enable machines to be controlled through brain signals
Prosthetics that use machine-learning algorithms to expand functionality and sensitivity
Neuralink announced an integrated brain-machine interface platform with thousands of channels25
Infinite Biomedical has its deep-learning-driven prosthetic control system approved by FDA26
FDA releases regulatory guidance on brain-controlled prosthetics27
Creating new organs and enhancing human functionality
Machine-learning techniques for simulating protein folding and contributing to drug design
3D printing tissue to test therapies
Nanobots and nanomaterials can operate and precisely deliver drugs within living creatures
Machine learning can predict the outcome of clinical trials
AI protein-folding algorithms solve structures faster than ever 28
New Zealand scientists Shalini bio-prints tumour cells, hoping to grow tumours to see what treatments work best29
MIT researchers apply AI techniques to predict clinical trial outcomes31
Before I went to law school I studied science. Partly because math and science were my best marks and I wanted to get into a highly competitive program. I also had a distrust of the humanities, because I believed at the time that in order to get a high mark you had to know and copy your professors political outlook. I thought that added a dimension to learning that didn’t interest me. What if I disagreed. Ha. It has actually evolved to just assuming everyone in academia is extremely left and copying that political agenda. So math and science it was. I also loved the scientific method, and I believed it was ‘creative’ in its own way. And partly because of a love of science. NOT NARRATIVE ‘we own the science’ but truly to look at frontiers of development.
What is going on right now appears to be science without ‘ethics’, without social limits on the research hopes or possible outcomes. There is a lot to grapple. One of the most important intersections in my view is the legal, legislative and scientific or medical research intersection. Some of the legislation weaponizes pharma, our political structures, our rights and freedoms. Some of the legislation is weaponizing financial structures. I’m not sure the political parties or infrastructures in ‘opposition’ have the necessary depth to completely maneuver this systematic weaponization. There are many people operating on instinct. These people did not come necessarily from academia or from power structures in our society. The trucker protest in Canada in many ways exemplified the best of our society. The sense of right and wrong that motivated the protest was beautiful. Many truckers have many long hours to fill with podcasts and radio broadcasts. We call that ‘fringe’. Now that I’m in the fringe I definitely see the plethora of reporting and diversity of view points within the fringe. But one of the dominant themes is to question ‘authority’.
IMO there are a good many people who also either because of personality traits, or past experiences, or social upbringing live outside of the assumptions that ‘authority’ is benevolent. This may be individuals who grew up in communist countries and recognize the signs of government repression.
If academia in the school system has leaned hard Marxist, the working class would actually have ‘less’ exposure to ‘globalist agenda grooming’, then the ultra-educated. Science geeks have somewhat less exposure to the humanities. You need only look at the union websites to see unions have become Marxist minus t equals socialists. T being the the value society can tolerate and which is smaller and smaller with every generation.
I saw a lot of ‘contempt’ from ‘educated’ people for the truckers. Many truckers are outside of unions, and outside of their influence. Those who had the instincts to push back and resist the conformity when the intensity was great may come from all walks of life, but their positions are also not accidental. If you’ve been traumatized by an institution, or authority figure: YOU will mistrust that an organization will have your best interest. If you’ve had a difficulty with even law or law enforcement you may have that instinct, or the medical establishment. There are many reasons you might be primed to resist what we’ve seen. You may be like some of my freedom fighter friends LONG IMMERSED in the counter-movement against globalization.
And then there are those who are tapping into their instincts. This little bit of my time with you while I drink a coffee and think through our world together, well I appreciate it. Just like the analysis of the issues, or problems will operate from a variety of perspectives, so will the solutions percolate in similar fashion.
[travel without diagnosis; aka without the VACCINE PASSPORT I’m going to stick it to you]
SOLUTIONS. I was interesting to me that the Truckers took what was at their disposal to formulate a ‘solution’. This was their trucks, gasoline, and incredible chutzpah. So you wonder how can you help:
writers write;
lawyers file cases;
doctors, nurses, and the whole 9 yards of homeopaths etc; defy, cure, leave the ‘pen’ you’re corralled in;
politicians; mobilize oppose overthrow; DEBATE
***BANKERS; you interesting sorts, full of brains and the desire to profit; channel that now into independence from the FED and CBDC;
hackers: oh geez you have an interesting role that CAN AND SHOULD BE FOR FREEDOM AND only the imagination to solve problems;
civil servants: stop ‘serving’ incivility in your roles: expose insist;
teachers: teach up. I still think of the teachers that I loved that inspired me, that believed in me, that made learning the most beautiful thing a brain could ponder after love;
film makers make films;
truckers truck; you know what I mean;
There’s a theory that ‘scientist’s devised an omicron to act as a fast acting cure to covid; Well scientists could do and should do quite a lot; whether it is ‘leak the truth’; you know your area better than I
The LGBTQ have come up with Gays against Groomers in response to what they see as an attack on children; this is powerful and displays the lack of uniformity of this aspect of our society;
Are you a retired: insert. Well activate. retired librarians should read the school’s approved lists. YOUR VALUE IN THIS MOVMENT IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU. The solutions to this tyranny is IN FRONT OF YOU. LOOK AT THE END OF YOUR FINGERS what do you see. Imagine how it is also a solution.
You are who you are, with your unique abilities, community, experiences. You could be a homemaker, a spook, an academic, a pastor, a Rabbi. You bring your solutions with your tools and I believe the SOLUTIONS are right in front of us.
Do you think like an electrician. One of the best songs I’ve ever heard. HOPE IS SOMETHING TO BEHOLD.
I’m not going to think like a garbage man who knows the address of Macron and his cronies. But he or she did.
“You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power—he's free again.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn
You will be assimilated, resistance is futile.
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