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| biotechnology [2011-02-20 15:36] – [Alter Nature Symposium] 91.86.27.95 | biotechnology [2011-02-20 15:38] – [Alter Nature Symposium] 91.86.27.95 |
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| **Designing Life** | **Designing Life** |
| Artist Koen Vanmechelen talked about his well known Cosmopolitan Chicken Project launched in the late nineties to create through cross-breeding domestic chickens from all over the world the "truly cosmopolitan chicken"; 'a metaphor for the global cultural and genetic mix that diversity and hybridization create'. dr. Ir. Rinie van Est from the dutch Rathenau Institute raised questions like 'What does it mean to be human/What is the human condition; Who controls the brain interventions; f.i. remote controlled rats; total engagement in games > gamification of life, of war... He pointed at two bio-engineering megatrends, B iology becomes T echnology and vice versa. A convergence takes place of Information revolution, Materials(nano) revolution, Biotech revolution (Jeremy Rifkin would have asked why he does not mention the [[http://www.foet.org/ongoing/documents/LeadingWayThirdIndustrialRevEUabridged5-14-08.pdf|Energy revolution here)]]. | |
| | Artist Koen Vanmechelen talked about his well known //Cosmopolitan Chicken Project// launched in the late nineties to create through cross-breeding domestic chickens from all over the world the "truly cosmopolitan chicken"; 'a metaphor for the global cultural and genetic mix that diversity and hybridization create'. |
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| | dr. Ir. Rinie van Est from the dutch Rathenau Institute raised questions like **'What does it mean to be human/What is the human condition**; Who controls the brain interventions; f.i. remote controlled rats; total engagement in games > gamification of life, of war... He pointed at two bio-engineering megatrends, B iology becomes T echnology and vice versa. A convergence takes place of Information revolution, Materials(nano) revolution, Biotech revolution (Jeremy Rifkin would have asked why Mr. van Est does not mention the [[http://www.foet.org/ongoing/documents/LeadingWayThirdIndustrialRevEUabridged5-14-08.pdf|Energy revolution)]]. |
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| //Here and now In the future, the performative performance- by designer/researcher J. Paul Neeley - President of Gaia Corporation (2023), "company of the past next 12 years" - introducing | //Here and now In the future, the performative performance- by designer/researcher J. Paul Neeley - President of Gaia Corporation (2023), "company of the past next 12 years" - introducing |
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