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The Swedish Data Inspection Board. Ubiquitous Computing
Sep 13th
If you say “Ubicomp”, many laughs and thinks of intelligent fridge. But the phenomenon should not be underestimated. For years, IT industry in the U.S., EU and Japan spent astronomical sums on development. People and equipment are bound together in a giant wireless network, it is intended, and it could More >
Statement by the Swedish Research Institute of Defence at the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce 2012 03 21
May 1st
The art of creating machines with ethical behaviour is something that robot scientists and philosophers have started to study.
What part has man to play in a future, in which ethical decisions will be taken also by machines?
When will a machine become a human being?
The question of borderlines between man and More >
Have you got visitors in your brain?
May 2nd
Inquiry for observations by people who claim to be involuntarily connected
to a system capable of communicating invisibly with their brain/nervous system Symptoms may be so called synthetic telepathy and/or synthetic physical symptoms.
Discuss your experiences with guidance from the numbered questions.
1.When did you first realize that you where connected
2.Do you think More >
Sweden and USA Agreement in Science-Technology for Homeland Secqurity Matters
May 1st
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF SWEDEN ON COOPERATION IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR HOMELAND SECURITY MATTERS
Preamble
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF SWEDEN (hereinafter referred to as the “Parties”): More >
Chips Coming to a Brain Near You
Apr 23rd
The hippocampus of the intact brain (left) receives neural impulses from the environment. The microchip (right), which may be able to help humans build long-term memories, processes the signals from the brain as electrical impulses and sends them back into the hippocampus.
In this era of high-tech memory management, next in More >
Army developing ‘synthetic telepathy’
Apr 3rd
Read This Thought: The U.S. Army is developing a technology known as synthetic telepathy that would allow someone to create email or voice mail and send it by thought alone. The concept is based on reading electrical activity in the brain using an electroencephalograph, or EEG.
Vocal cords were overrated anyway. More >
University of Oxford:Practical Ethics: Non-lethal, yet dangerous: neuroactive agents
Apr 2nd
University of Oxford
An article and editorial in Nature warns about the militarization of agents that alter mental states. While traditional chemical weapons are intended to hurt or kill people, these agents are intended to disable. For example, they might induce confusion, sleepiness or calm. The Chemical Weapons Convention contain a More >
EU Etica – Ethical evaluation
Mar 29th
Ethics in Science and New Technologies
Because ICT implants in the human body go along with the tendency to commercialize the human body and treat humans as objects or as biomechanical platform, implants are considered as a potential threat to human dignity in some contexts.
This document deals with the evaluation of More >
Human Body Area Network
Mar 28th
A Body Area Network (BAN), Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) or Body sensor network (BSN) are terms used to describe the application of wearable computing devices.[1][2][3] This will enable wireless communication between several miniaturized Body Sensor Units (BSU) and a single Body Central Unit (BCU) worn at the human body.[4][5] The development of WBAN More >
Robots Get Closer to Humans-2005 IEEE International Conference
Mar 28th
Ethical issues involved in hybrid bionicsystems research
2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
“What kind of privacy safeguards are needed if a machine can read your thoughts”?
“Invasive research on humans could involve inhuman or degrading procedures” “Invasive research on humans could lead to new torture or inhumane punishment techniques”
Will More >
Bioelectronics and Implanted Devices
Mar 28th
Chapter 12
Bioelectronics and Implanted DevicesEllen M. McGee
12.1 IntroductionThe future may well involve the emergence of humans who are fundamentally coupled with bioelectronic devices, science fiction’s “cyborgs.” Revolutions in semiconductor devices, cognitive science, bioelectronics, nanotechnology and applied neural control technologies are facilitating breakthroughs in hybrids of humans and machines. The More >
Nanotechnology: Shaping Our Future. “Biotechnology’s opportunities and problems”, Editors: Ulf Gorman, Carl-Gustaf Andrén and Goran Hermerén
Mar 28th
Google Översättning från svenska till engelska
Bengt Kasemo
History, motivations, trends, opportunities and problems
Introduction
Many scientists believe that within the next 20 years will experience rapid and sensitive community development in three mutually interacting areas: The first, which is based on silicon technology, information technology.
It has already had an impact on our daily More >
Uppsala University, research in bioethics
Mar 11th
Uppsala University, research in bioethics
Bioethics deals with norms and value conflicts in health care and life science research. Issues covered are such priorities in health care, informed consent, neurobiological explanations of human consciousness, animal welfare and the use of biotechnology. The subject deals with philosophical, theological, legal and social More >
EU – Commission Ethical Aspects of ICT Implants in the Human Body
Mar 11th
The following text is an extract from the
European Group on Ethics and New Technologies with the Swedish Professor Goran Hermerén as chairman, adopted and delivered to the EU-Commission 16th of March 2005.
Introduction
Brain-computer interface (BCI) or direct brain control: the technologies involved above are communication technologies: they take information from the brain and More >
Virtual/Augmented Reality
Feb 6th
Virtual/Augmented Reality
Similar to[1]:
·Virtual worlds: mainly referring to entertainment when virtual reality refers more to utilities
·Mixed reality: mainly used in entertainment applications where different kinds of realities are mixed. Augmented reality on the other hand refers to situations where reality is augmented with some other elements.
·Metaverse: vision of an immersive 3D virtual world, to More >
Robotics
Feb 6th
Robotics
History
The term “robot” was derived from early 20th century literature (Čapek 1920) to denote machines that are apparently able to work independently of direct human control. There is currently no uniform agreed definition of “robot”, although the International Standard Organisation (ISO) 8373 defines them as “an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, More >
Quantum Computing
Feb 6th
Quantum Computing
History
Blackbody Radiation
The technology of quantum computing is based on the idea of extending classical information theory. This is done by combining it with the concept of quantum physics and thereby enhancing computer science, which has so far been reduced to a binary architecture, built on transistor systems. More >
Neuroelectronics
Feb 6th
Neuroelectronics
History
Neuroelectronics, sometimes referred to as neurotechnology, is the discipline that deals with the interface between the human nervous system and electronic devices. It is a highly complex and interdisciplinary field with contributions from computer science, cognitive science, neurosurgery and biomedical engineering. Neuroelectronics has roughly three related branches: (1) neuroimaging, (2) More >
Human-Machine Symbiosis
Feb 6th
Human-Machine Symbiosis
History
Human-machine symbiosis can be traced back to Licklider who in 1960 envisaged a situation where machines could work side by side with humans. Licklider’s vision was that humans and machines could be coupled together and work interactively. He stated the following:
Man-computer symbiosis is an expected development in cooperative interaction More >
Future Internet
Feb 6th
Future Internet
Related terms:
Web 3.0, Internet of Things, Real World Internet, Semantic Web, Intelligent Web, Internet of Services
History
The development of digital information networks begun in the U.S.A. in the 1960’s at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)[1] and as a result the first network called ARPANET was opened between four American More >
