Future Biometric Devices

Biometrics refers to the measurement and analysis of unique physical or behavioral characteristics of an individual. These characteristics are used to identify and verify the identity of a person.

There will be small biometric devices for:

1. Moment by Moment Analysis of Nutrition and Metabolism: This future technology involves real-time monitoring of the body's nutritional levels, such as glucose, fats, and proteins, along with the assessment of metabolic processes. Advanced wearable devices or implantable sensors could continuously analyze the levels of various nutrients in the bloodstream, providing valuable insights into a person's dietary habits and metabolic efficiency. Such technology could revolutionize personalized nutrition and help manage conditions like diabetes, obesity, and metabolic disorders by offering precise, data-driven recommendations.

2. Oxygen Levels: Monitoring oxygen levels in the body is crucial for assessing respiratory health and overall well-being. Future technologies may enable non-invasive, continuous monitoring of blood oxygen levels through wearable devices that use optical sensors or other innovative techniques. This real-time data can alert users to potential health issues, such as sleep apnea, lung diseases, or altitude-related complications, allowing for early intervention and improved management of respiratory conditions.

3. Brain Health: Advancements in brain-computer interfaces and neuroimaging technologies could lead to moment-by-moment analysis of brain health. These technologies might offer insights into brain activity, cognitive function, and early detection of neurological disorders. They could also be used to develop personalized brain-training programs and assistive devices for individuals with cognitive impairments.

4. Heart Rate and Blood Pressure: Heart rate and blood pressure are vital indicators of cardiovascular health. Future technologies may offer continuous monitoring through unobtrusive, wearable devices that provide real-time data on heart rate variability, blood pressure fluctuations, and stress levels. This information could be valuable for early detection of cardiovascular issues and assist in managing conditions like hypertension or arrhythmias.

5. Body Temperature: Monitoring body temperature in real-time can aid in detecting infections, inflammatory responses, or fever, which are often signs of illness. Future technologies may involve advanced, wearable thermometers or implantable sensors that continuously track body temperature and send alerts to users or healthcare providers when abnormal changes occur.

6. Sleep Patterns: Advanced sleep tracking technologies could offer comprehensive insights into an individual's sleep patterns, including sleep duration, sleep stages, and disruptions. Non-invasive, wearable sleep monitors might become more accurate and comfortable, providing users with personalized sleep improvement recommendations and helping healthcare professionals diagnose sleep disorders more efficiently.

7. Immune System Biometric: An immune system biometric would involve real-time monitoring and analysis of a person's immune system activity and response. Such technology might measure various immune markers, cytokines, and other indicators to assess the body's immune health and detect early signs of infections, autoimmune conditions, or immunological disorders. Monitoring the immune system in real-time could be a game-changer for personalized medicine, vaccination strategies, and immune-related research.

These future technologies hold tremendous potential to transform healthcare and empower individuals to take charge of their well-being by providing them with real-time, data-driven insights. As these technologies continue to develop, it will be essential to address privacy and ethical considerations surrounding the collection and use of such sensitive health data. Nonetheless, they have the potential to significantly improve preventive healthcare, early disease detection, and overall quality of life.

An idea is to get them reduced to one device. All connected to a smart device/monitor. Reducing the demand for diagnostics doctors.

The intelligence compiled by these devices can be dispatched to physicians, in order they may proceed to dispense in follow-up treatments. You will see these in ten to fifteen years. Such rendering of biological markers, diagnostics, is a primary movement towards every increasing cyborgism.

As biometrics can be implanted or worn on the surface of the body, what follows is either going to make us more technologically dependent or more machine-like (still distinguishable from machines themselves).

A smartwatch with integrated biometric sensors and health notification capabilities could be a powerful health companion, empowering users to proactively manage their well-being and seek medical attention when necessary. It has the potential to revolutionize healthcare by promoting preventive care and early detection, leading to better health outcomes and improved quality of life. However, it is essential to prioritize user data privacy and security to ensure users feel confident in adopting and using such advanced health monitoring technologies.

Below is a video to present one example of a minute biometric device:




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Origins

Our machines and our technological designs will:

1) Be preserved and always accessible.
2) Be created, develop and evolve.

Even if we regress, stagnate, or progress our machines will be there. The only thing that will stop them from developing, growing, is human extinction before they can create themselves. In the event humans become extinct, if there is creative super artificial intelligence another biological sentience may be created.

The question who creates who, from what we know there are two possibilities 1) Evolution of life from nonliving matter 2) Intelligence from intelligence. These are the only possible origins in the known cosmos.

The Transhuman Promise of Synthetic Bodies

The human body is a frail physical structure; partial to physical injury and wear. Bones can break, skin can tear, muscles and  veins can rupture, organs fail, old age can deteriorate it, and so on. It is becoming ever increasingly possible to replace organs.

In theory, the most difficult organ to form a synthetic equal to is the brain.  There is, however, real progress being made towards productions of this sort.  Extensive development on this type of technology remains undone. Instead of writing out a whole article on "symbiosis between machine and biology," First, I focus on a particular part of human anatomy, the brain. If you'd like to know more about transhumanist agendas to create synthetic bodies visit the channel connected to the above video. How might we think of machine to brain augmentation?

There would need to be similar cognitive architectures, brain and machine wise

What would such a brain machine look like?

1. It would have to emulate the brain. Starting from scratch, the emulated brain would have to mimic most if not all neuro-structure and neuro-chemical behavior. It would basically be a computerized copy. This is the copy concept of mind-uploading.

2. The second type of mind uploading is direct brain to machine insertion. In the prequels to the Dune series, there are beings known as Cymeks who are machines with human brains. These implanted brains are in a fluid and connect through various outlets to the machine body. Moreover, there are a hand-full of games featuring machines that can be entered full-body-mind. These machines are what is known as Mechs, and there are various games presenting them; such as Titan-Fall (1/2) and Anthem (among others).

3. Thirdly, there are machines being put in brains, rather than brains put into machines (see 2) There are multiple patent devices and actually constructed one's that in theory can be implanted in the brain that would replace some specialized brain function. As in the case of the "artificial hippocampus", Elon Musk's neurolink, and some others.

Likewise with all organs there can be machine or synthetic replacements and adaptations/alternatives. Already we have cyborgism with prosthetic limbs, and it will only be a matter of time before mechanical bodies will surface to the top.

With synthetic biological and mechanical structures, things like immortal life and perfect health are possible. The probability of living on other planets, consciousness embodied in some mechanical structure, is also more likely. Spreading mechanical life through the universe is far more feasible than having to proliferate such a feeble composition that is the human organism (or any other current biological entity, with maybe the exception of micro-organisms),

Decades of researching and technical applications have lead to the uploading of a worm brain to a robot. For more on this digital version of the worm brain see this video : youtube.com/watch?v=eYS7UIUM_SQ

Worm, why not human? Difference in the complexity of the human brain, may mean we have a long while till such is actual, but it can be something scientists work on.

To exist before synthetic bodies, will be suits -- suitable for off world living. These are much easier to manufacture and therefore they will be antecedent to synthetic bodies. Synthetic body parts, or prosthetics are stop signs on the road to a final destination, and that is a synthetic body. According to this article "For years researchers have been interested in creating artificial cells, as they could be useful for manufacturing compounds and understanding how life works. Now a new method shows how this can be accomplished using polymer droplets that integrate components of burst bacteria. The synthesized cells are able to perform translation and transcription and have several features that resemble real cells, like a proto-nucleus and a cytoskeleton." (1)

We'll initially begin with straightforward approaches in generating artificial cells. This marks the micro-level at which synthetic biology is set to be employed. There are already various engineering projects to make many human organs in the laboratory. (2)
1. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02946-8

#syntheticbiology #syntheticorgans #brainemulation #transhumanism 2. https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=prosthetic+organs&mid=373749829450B797738C373749829450B797738C&FORM=VIRE

An Universal AI named Drake

The Drake equation is a probabilistic argument used to estimate the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy.

In a future not yet present, there is a computer intelligence integrated into both satellite and telescopic detection devices. This AI is known as Drake. Its main function will be to use part of the Drake Equation as a guiding formula for detecting signs of life outside our solar system. 

Specifically a variable in the equation n_e = the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets, was broken down and utilized.  The creators of Drake knew the approximate number of planets that could support life. It was Drake's prime objective to make that number real rather than just probabilistic.

Drake is a learner. He can utilize spectrum-analysis and find exo-planets around target stars. Eventually, he will do this at super speeds, faster and faster he goes. He will find thousands upon thousands of Earth-like planets, till the inevitable happens. It won't take too long. Drake will find an intelligent signal and his creators and even the known universe will celebrate his findings.

Can a computer intelligence win an award in the sciences? If yes, Drake would!

How many more intelligent beings in the whole of the universe are Drake-Like? To determine this we would need an added variable in the Drake Equation. Maybe there are machines that already know that life exists on our planet. Probable? Yes. What if we have Drakes looking for Drakes? Probable? Yes.

The signal Drake will find is luckily right in our own galaxy. How nearby? And what of the signals contents?

*One issue that arises from scanning the stars for planets, is that the light or transmission that comes from other planets takes some time to reach us, is older than what is actually being emitted from the planet, in its own relative time. The farther out you go, the father back you look or hear. When it comes to scanning stars in our own galaxy this isn't much of a problem, since, for example: Proxima Centauri is just over 4 light years away, our closest neighbor.

"Carry Over"

I want to briefly explore the intriguing concept of “digitalization to materialization.”

The question is simple but profound: Can we take something that exists only in the digital realm and make it physical?

In some ways, we already do this. A common example is withdrawing cash from an ATM. What begins as digital currency, stored as data, is transformed into tangible paper money.

Now imagine taking that principle further. When a digital object is turned into a physical one through automated manufacturing, it almost feels as though the material object built itself. As economic systems grow more autonomous and assembly technologies continue to advance, the process of turning digital into material will only become faster and more seamless. One day, it may even happen instantaneously—quicker than withdrawing cash from a machine.

Looking ahead, we could also create physical products directly from digital or virtual simulations. These simulations could run like miniature universes of their own, generating complex designs—or even living systems—that could then be carried over into the material world.

This opens the door to something extraordinary: the ability to convert not only things, but potentially bodies and even minds from digital existence into physical form. I call this process “Carry Over.”

Some early signs of this future are already present in today’s economy:

1. 3D Printing: Everything from small items to entire houses can now be printed directly from digital blueprints.

2. Advanced Simulations: Digital environments are becoming so complex that the possibility of intelligent life within them is no longer purely science fiction. We may only be a few technological steps away from large-scale carry over of simulated creations.

3. Computer-Based Designs: Entire cities and architectural structures begin as computer models before taking shape in the real world. While not everything can be directly printed, the process begins in imagination, flows through digital design, and ultimately results in material reality.

Less is More - The Shape of A.I.

You may have some inclination to the fact now that we have limitless possibilities for what avatars or characters one can become in virtual games. This limitlessness is a freedom -- a freedom of form.

All the forms that virtual characters can take, it is likely that such will be taken by robotic forms. The head is a place to start, from oval to star shaped, anything is really possible. Eyes can be small, big, or increase or decrease in number. Faces themselves can be altered freely. 

The freedom to change identities like this, doesn't stop at changing the form of the face but the whole skeletal model is capable of materializing into limitless structures.

Is there an ultimate freedom? Will human's one day create a being that can change into any form so suited for its intelligent selection? I think so. Could there one day be a machine like a "morph" that can just change at will? I think so. It raises a few questions about the nature of self-identity. Confusion of identity is quite possible. 

 Here the less the robots keep to a standard form the more they will be able to transform. Its definitely a suitable reality for the future of colonizing other planets.

Some Fancies of a Smart Home

What do you fancy about future home centered technology? Maybe you don't know what technologies are on the market or will exist in the near future. This blog introduces some concepts for future in home technologies. 

As computers become more compact and cheaper, we will observe their distribution more widely among the World of Things.

Smart Fridge --A smart fridge will have sensory devices (cameras) that detect (intelligently) all items, probably by reading codes on the edible and drinkable contents. It will have panels on it that add extra functionality, and may additionally be linked to a smartphone or smart home framework It might be possible to register your fridge with a market and have the fridge order commodities for you by itself (automatically) or by will. The Samsung smart fridge (2019) includes a very smart device, that can communicate with your phone, save images to the smart fridge, recognize faces, and relay voice messages. The fridge itself may one day have transparent glass, where the whole thing can be altered, not just the main touch panel.

Visit this video on smart fridges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U40ne9BQHqQ

Smart Bowl -- With ever advancing sensory intelligence one of our main utensils for eating will inevitably become smart. It will have 1) Calorie measure 2) Ingredient sensors 3) Weight and volume sensors. These can be employed and connected to a smart device. An app may be run to tell you how much of the food you should be eating to match your dietary needs.

Smart Toothbrush -- Once again intelligent sensory machines, that can sense down to the size of molecules will make their appearance in a toothbrush. If not a toothbrush than a scan of the mouth may be made into a functioning data gathering device. It will have the capacity to 1) Measure bacteria 2) Tell you how fresh your breath is. Other possibilities may exist.

Smart Toilet -- There are already devised toilets that can make a biological analysis of stool and urine. They are capable of predicting the likely hood of future illness, and will be a great ASSet in the future. Users will be able to link this information to a smart app, and will be directed into one’s smart home.

Smart shower -- On a personal note my brother wanted to invent a shower head that connects to soap deposits in the shower. I think this will be a future technology. Including this facial recognition to sense who one is, as to make it possible to set up a specific shower setting for the specific person. One invention, I liked recently, was the shower curtain that can hold devices and keep them away from being compromised by water. Changing light colors, shower curtain displays (as computers become thinner and cheaper), will be a highlight in future homes.

Smart Garage -- Working with robotic cars it might be in our future that our homes allow owned or borrowed vehicles to park inside a garage. If so, they may be connected to a robot that can put away or somehow help manage the work load involved with consumption. If you own a car or an air-car in the future it might park itself in the garage. The garage may include ways to wash your car, without having to take it to your local Jiffy-Lube washer.

All of these can be part of a smart home. They can be linked to a smart devices, so you can always check with your doctor or nutritionist about your dietary needs and your overall health. Of course, as written about in other articles, technology may advance so far as to make a doctor unneeded, replaced by a AI doctor that works specifically within one's smart home.

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