AI personal identification schemes are more and more capable of discerning who we are, and how we are. Recent research shows how our children’s virtual reality (VR) gaming systems can name users’ identities just by measuring how they move their heads, arms, and hands. In at least one notable case, the VR system supplier’s Privacy Policy grants a long list of rights to use and distribute those patterns.
In 2020, wildfires scorched 45 million acres (18 million hectares) in Australia, and fifty-eight thousand wildfires burned 10.27 million acres (4.16 million hectares) in the United States. California suffered an estimated $100B total economic cost from wildfires in a single year. Beyond numbers, people who faced incinerated homes and apocalyptic orange skies endure a lasting emotional impact.
A breakthrough stunned world-leading scientists at the close of 2020.
“This will change medicine. It will change research. It will change bioengineering. It will change everything.”
“But when I first saw these results, I nearly fell off my chair.”
“…a once in a generation advance.”
“I was beginning to think it would not get solved in my lifetime.”
“It has occurred decades before many people in the field would have predicted.”
