This one is a small Future Fiction piece. Enjoy! Paris May 23rd 2023 She put the phone to her ear, called out “Hello?” louder than she had originally intended, paused, followed up with a “Yes, this is she…” with a slightly lower pitch – hoping it was the volume expected from someone taking a realContinueContinue reading “The Future of Dating: Redefining Chemistry”
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The Future of Caregiving (2/2): Let’s start acting today!
Family caregivers have become the backbone of long-term care services. But as the average life expectancy in developed countries rises by 2-3 years every ten calendar years, whereas the Total Fertility Rate has been halved in 60 years, we won’t have the capacity to meet the demand for caregivers. We are heading toward the caregivingContinueContinue reading “The Future of Caregiving (2/2): Let’s start acting today!”
The Future of Caregiving (1/2): The Caregiving Cliff
Family caregivers have become the backbone of long-term care services. But as the average life expectancy in developed countries rises by 2-3 years every ten calendar years, whereas the Total Fertility Rate has been halved in 60 years, we won’t have the capacity to meet the demand for caregivers. We are heading toward the “caregivingContinueContinue reading “The Future of Caregiving (1/2): The Caregiving Cliff”
The Human Brain is the Best Time Travel Machine!
I never stop being fascinated by the human brain and how it thinks about time. I am particularly fond of understanding the place of the future in our thoughts and in our brain circuits! 30 years ago, brain scientists made a surprising discovery. Randy Bruckner, graduate student at Washington University in Saint Louis, found outContinueContinue reading “The Human Brain is the Best Time Travel Machine!”
Sponsored Food Trucks & Free Food For All!
Every day at noon, Lenna walks down the street to have lunch. She meets with her friends Amelie (Uber freight driver) and Sam (VR game developer) at the closest AdStar food truck. They’ve checked on the maps through the AdStar app where today’s food trucks are located – at the corner, there is one IndianContinueContinue reading “Sponsored Food Trucks & Free Food For All!”
The Transformation of Pharmacy
“I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant: I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.” – Hypocratic Oath It has become a leitmotiv: “Pharmacy needs to transformContinueContinue reading “The Transformation of Pharmacy”
The New Timescape
“Remember that time is money” – Benjamin Franklin During the First Wave (agricultural societies) and still recently in some civilizations, people were not paid hourly, but usually received a fraction of their production. This resulted in a different relationship to time from ours. As Marina Gorbis details in her paper “Back to the Future: FromContinueContinue reading “The New Timescape”
Senior Villages to brighten the Future of Aging
“It takes a village to support our seniors” – Proverb More and more older people will be able to live independently and comfortably at home while aging, thanks to the development of senior villages. These community-based villages offer a set of services based on volunteering, tech equipment and reciprocal support. The first named Village inContinueContinue reading “Senior Villages to brighten the Future of Aging”
No-tech-land: Remains of the human nature
“Man is by nature a social animal” – Aristotle, Politics. I have been a pessimist for quite a while, running countless catastrophic scenarios in my head about the end of our species in a not-so-distant future. I might have been a little too much influenced by Matrix or Terminator-like prophecies. Or maybe just by ourContinueContinue reading “No-tech-land: Remains of the human nature”
Silicon Humanism 