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Augmented Thinking: The New Convergence of Art, Technology, and Science with Professor Julio OttinoAugmented Thinking: The New Convergence of Art, Technology, and Science with Professor Julio Ottino

A rare discussion about the Life of an Engineer after five hundred years with Dr Waseem Akhtar a professor at Griffith College and Christopher E. Mason a professor of Genomics, Physiology, and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. Born in Argentina, he had a career as an artist before he moved to the United States for his PhD in chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota. He then held a faculty position at UMass/Amherst and held chaired senior appointments at Caltech, Stanford, and the University of Minnesota.

Today’s complex problems demand a radically new way of thinking—one in which art, technology, and science converge to expand our creativity and augment our insight. Creativity must be combined with the ability to execute; the innovators of the future will have to understand this balance and manage such complexities as climate change and pandemics. The place of this convergence is the Nexus. In this provocative and visually striking book, Julio Mario Ottino and Bruce Mau offer a guide for navigating the intersections of art, technology, and science.

The Nexus brings together word and image to prepare us—individuals and organizations alike—for the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century. Compelling historic examples illuminate the present, from the Renaissance, when the domains were one, to the twentieth century, with intense, collective creative outpourings from places as different as the Bauhaus and Bell Labs. Leaders must be able to grasp simplicity in complexity and complexity in simplicity—and embrace the powerful idea of complementarity, where opposing extremes coexist and our thinking expands. Innovation needs more than managing. Managers use maps; leaders develop compasses.

Ref link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Y4yfcTAAAAAJ&hl=en;http://www.juliomarioottino.com/

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'The Next 500 years: The Life of an Engineer' - The book about future

Discuss between Prof.Christopher E. Mason and Dr.Waseem Akhtar

A rare discussion about the Life of an Engineer after five hundred years with Dr Waseem Akhtar a professor at Griffith College and Christopher E. Mason a professor of Genomics, Physiology, and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is also one of the founding Directors of the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction together with Olivier Elemento First, they discuss NASA’s Twins Study Results that make changes in the genetically in the body of the human body. There are many limitations to doing this experiment because these are the medicine for development in NASA and space X for clinical genetic changes in DNA and genome. In the case of Twins brother their body is controlled by one another in space. NASA recognises the Twins Study as the first study of its kind to compare molecular profiles of identical twin astronauts, and a methodology to integrate research from the ten teams was established. Because identical twins share the same genetic makeup, twin studies provide a way for scientists to explore how our health is impacted by the environment around us, independent of the physical variations that naturally occur between most of us as individuals. Scott provided a test case to measure in space, and Mark provided a baseline test case to compare those measurements on Earth.

Inevitably, life on Earth will come to an end, whether by climate disaster, cataclysmic war, or the death of the sun in a few billion years. To avoid extinction, we will have to find a new home planet, perhaps even a new solar system, to inhabit. In this provocative and fascinating book, Christopher Mason argues that we have a moral duty to do just that. As the only species aware that life on Earth has an expiration date, we have a responsibility to act as the shepherd of life forms not only for our species but for all species on which we depend and for those still to come (by accidental or designed evolution). Mason argues that the same capacity for ingenuity that has enabled us to build rockets and land on other planets can be applied to redesigning biology so that we can sustainably inhabit those planets. And he lays out a 500-year plan for undertaking the massively ambitious project of reengineering human genetics for life on other worlds.

As they are today, our frail human bodies could never survive travel to another habitable planet. Mason describes the toll that long-term space travel took on astronaut Scott Kelly, who returned from a year on the International Space Station with changes to his blood, bones, and genes. Mason proposes a ten-phase, 500-year program that would engineer the genome so that humans can tolerate the extreme environments of outer space—with the ultimate goal of achieving human settlement of new solar systems. He lays out a roadmap of which solar systems to visit first, and merges biotechnology, philosophy, and genetics to offer an unparalleled vision of the universe to come.

Inevitably, life on Earth will come to an end, whether by climate disaster, cataclysmic war, or the death of the sun in a few billion years. To avoid extinction, we will have to find a new home planet, perhaps even a new solar system, to inhabit. In this provocative and fascinating book, Christopher Mason argues that we have a moral duty to do just that. As the only species aware that life on Earth has an expiration date, we have a responsibility to act as the shepherd of life forms not only for our species but for all species on which we depend and for those still to come (by accidental or designed evolution). Mason argues that the same capacity for ingenuity that has enabled us to build rockets and land on other planets can be applied to redesigning biology so that we can sustainably inhabit those planets. And he lays out a 500-year plan for undertaking the massively ambitious project of reengineering human genetics for life on other worlds.

As they are today, our frail human bodies could never survive travel to another habitable planet. Mason describes the toll that long-term space travel took on astronaut Scott Kelly, who returned from a year on the International Space Station with changes to his blood, bones, and genes. Mason proposes a ten-phase, 500-year program that would engineer the genome so that humans can tolerate the extreme environments of outer space—with the ultimate goal of achieving human settlement of new solar systems. He lays out a roadmap of which solar systems to visit first, and merges biotechnology, philosophy, and genetics to offer an unparalleled vision of the universe to come.

ref Link:https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-twins-study-results-published-in-science;https://physiology.med.cornell.edu/people/christopher-mason-ph-d/

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The Joy of Science -A Talk About Science

The Joy of Science - a Talk

The Joy of Science is an audio discussion between Dr Waseem Akhtar the professor of Griffith College and Prof.Jim Al-Khalili the theoretical physicist at the University of Surrey he also have chairs at the college as well as the public for engagement in science. He is a broadcaster, professor and one of the Britain known science communicators. In 2014, Al-Khalili was named as a RISE (Recognising Inspirational Scientists and Engineers) leader by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. He was President of Humanists UK between January 2013 and January 2016.

The audio discussing science as a collection of facts about the world is a wrong statement and he is trying to prove that science is a matter of thinking and upgrading the process of activities. The authors view science it's a fact about the world and changes that occur due to the processes of experiments and inventions. He also describes the learning of different subjects like art, literature, languages …etc but he justifies that science is the process of getting knowledge or acquiring knowledge and not knowledge itself. He is also trying to understand society to learn how the scientific approach is learned and implemented for the future of the community.

Another discipline of science is getting more interesting than experiments because there are many ways of finding the nature and solution to the problems by using equations, solving and other findings through natural processes. He also shows that a virus that spread all over the world defines the nature of advanced science and its findings.

The next aspect of science about the truth of knowledge is whether it is relevant or not. According to Professor Jim Al-Khalili, it's depending upon the nature of science and he also proves that in physics all statements are true scientifically but almost can’t be true in the view of the Universe and natural flow. There is also some differences in human behaviour and ideology and our belief and our culture makes science theory and inventions pointless.

In addition to the scientific matter, they discuss Quantum mechanics and its theory. He said that it's another part of mechanics or theory having different theories and unique in the world of science. In science generally, there will be a hypothesis and it will be tested and observations and experiments to determine how accurate it is and maintain to improve. Each experiment has a unique story or how they acquire it just like scientific studies. But Quantum mechanics is full of powerful mathematics and multiple ways of explaining it. It also describes the subatomic world and time travelling. There will be two views as an engineer and a physicist describes the need and probabilities of science and its development. We may not know about the correct answer but nature itself contains the answer and we should figure it out through mathematical equations and also by theoretical explanations. The main problems depend upon ourselves which means we should clear the problems and how nature and the physics or the theories prove the science need.