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The Right to Disconnect From Your Own Body: Exit Rights for Implants, BCIs and Bionics

June 17, 2016

My illustration entitled: "The Body Is Not a Subscription" — A figure cutting a chain of digital subscription icons linking their body to a corporate cloud. An implant, brain-computer interface or bion...

What the Bible says about ‘The Antichrist’

June 6, 2016

Opinion, Visual Arts

The concept of the Antichrist is one of the most discussed and often misunderstood themes in biblical theology. Popular culture tends to portray the Antichrist as a single, apocalyptic villain who appears at ...

NeuroChip: Developing a Stronger Brain-Computer Interface for Artificial Intelligence Breakthroughs

May 28, 2016

Opinion, Visual Arts

In my latest illustration, I sketched a future possibility of the functions of the neurochip (Brain-Computer Interface) with functionalities for consumers, to directly control home-electronic appliances, et...

Institutional Optionality: Why Economic Freedom Depends on Alternatives

April 30, 2016

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Open Switchboard" — A community routes energy, communication, and trade through many independent channels. Economic freedom depends not only on what institutions permit, ...

Ethereum: More than a Digital Currency

April 16, 2016

Opinion, Visual Arts

In my latest illustration, I sketch a fantasy+real world style, featuring myself atop one of the super-trees at Gardens By The Bay, with Marina Bay Sands in the background. --------------------------------...

Nanomedicine: The Future of Healthcare at the Nanoscale

March 13, 2016

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration of a closeup of nanorobots in the human bloodstream Nanomedicine — the application of nanotechnology in medicine — is revolutionizing how we diagnose, treat, and prevent diseases. By ma...

Beyond the Upgrade: What Makes an Enhanced Life Your Own?

March 1, 2016

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Dawn of the Self-Created Human" - A highly enhanced transhuman emerges from an enormous translucent biological cocoon inside a ruined stone amphitheater. Titanium limbs, lumin...

Blockchain and Cryptocurrency: The Next Geopolitical Leveraging Tool

February 10, 2016

Opinion, Visual Arts

According to the Survey on the Global Agenda, both Asian and European respondents ranked the rise of geostrategic competition as the second most important global trend. While the old Cold War is not making a re...