Un rêve de jeunesse éternelle. Voilà la vision d’Altos Labs, cette startup créatrice d’une technologie qui serait capable de rajeunir les cellules et de prétendre à une forme d’immortalité. Elle compte dans son équipe des ténors de la génétique et pas moins de deux prix Nobel. Un rêve à trois
PlusL’Homme est-il un être singulier et supérieur ? Qu’est-ce qui définit l’être humain ? Faut-il accorder à l’animal une personnalité juridique ? Peut-on encore parler de frontières entre l’Homme et l’animal ? Explorer nos limites, interroger notre devenir en tant qu’humain et plus globalement envisager celui de la planète, tel
PlusNo doubt that this peaceful Scottish woman, retired from teaching, never imagined for a moment that all the media spotlights would one day be focused on her, and that she could become part of human history. Yet this is what is happening now that British doctors have been
PlusAt a time when some see transhumanism as a new age of humanity thanks to technosciences, the impression of a lack of control dominates. A few spectacular scientific experiments, bordering on the fact-diverse, reinforce this impression, witness the case of genetically modified children in China. Does this mean that the way to increase
PlusTranshumanism, popularized by the American engineer and futurologist Ray Kurzweil with his University of the Singularity, and by the British cybernetics professor Kevin Warwick, presents itself as a movement of ideas advocating the transformation, improvement or increase of the human being through technology. He postulates that the hybridization of human and
PlusAn international team is looking at new technologies that improve human physical and cognitive skills, their development and their distribution in society. The possibilities are dizzying, but they raise many questions about the very essence of human beings, about what is useful for their development, about what is useful for their well-being and about what is not.
PlusThe intelligence behind artificial "intelligence" (AI) is suspect. Admittedly, we are less and less doubtful of its remarkable technical capabilities. On the other hand, we increasingly doubt its... intelligence. For example, we hesitate to speak of genuine intelligence - in the strongest sense of the word - even though
PlusThere is no shortage of projects, candidates and enthusiasm for going to Mars. This old dream of man, which could, according to Elon Musk, come true in 2025. That's almost tomorrow. But the journey to Mars and life on the Red Planet will not be easy. A great leap
PlusAs with any new technology, artificial intelligence is the subject of both hopes and fears, and what it encompasses today presents major challenges (Villani et al., 2018). It also raises profound questions about our own humanity. Will the machine surpass the intelligence of the humans who designed it? What will be the
PlusThe rapid development of the so-called NBIC technologies - nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science - is giving rise to possibilities that have long been in the realm of science fiction. Disease, aging, and even death are all human realities that these technologies seek to bring to the forefront.
PlusThe American startup Netcome came up with this bizarre idea. To vitrify the brain, by a patented process, to preserve, in working order, the neuronal connections. Then preserve it for an indefinite number of years, until we know how to download it onto a medium capable of re-functioning the
PlusAmerican scientists claim to be on the verge of reversing the aging mechanism. They have just revealed a crucial stage in the catalytic cycle of an enzyme, telomerase. Telomerase holds the key to delaying or even reversing the cellular aging process. The understanding of this mechanism has remained until today
PlusTo enable paraplegics to regain the use of their legs, this is the ambition of the Wandercraft project, which has created the first exoskeleton that reproduces the movements of walking identically: With it, paraplegics can regain the most advanced natural walking in the world; several million people
PlusThe music lives in colour, it seems obvious to you. The velvet you caress with your hand tastes like chocolate. You count by following the rainbow of numbers in your mind, just as the letters of the alphabet have never been written simply in black on a black background.
PlusBetween the hope of immortality and the inevitability of mortality, humans have always sought to counter the aging and defect of functional parts of their bodies. Thus, the myth of Prometheus shows that the ancient Greeks were already aware of the potential of certain parts of the body to repair themselves.
PlusThe announced rapid development of artificial intelligence is increasingly worrying "connected" discussion circles. Will robots animated - that's the term - by artificial intelligence supplant humans? Chances are the answer is yes if we continue to ignore
PlusMaking the history of immortality feeds the paradox: if immortality were effective, it would not be subject to any historicity. History, process, evolution: so many notions contrary to immortality. It is obviously not a question here of immortality - about which we know nothing - but of the thought of immortality.
PlusEternal life is mankind's oldest dream. A dream that could come true. Today, in the West, the quest for immortality has moved from a metaphysical question to technical and scientific considerations. In this film, the investigation focuses on the progress of laboratory research around the world.
PlusAs medical advances in robotics, implants and other assistive technologies continue, will we, as humans, eventually evolve into a kind of cyborg? What does this mean for society as we know it? Cyborgs: a word that
PlusAll gardeners, even Sunday gardeners, know that to obtain beautiful flowers, you must occasionally clean your plants and remove withered stems, leaves and buds. Well, it's a little bit the same for the human body. Researchers at the Erasmus Medical Center at the
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