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Assessing consequences of technologies | #explore

later succeeded by the idea of boosting human performance by means of so-called human enhancements; these days, it’s Artificial Intelligence . When it comes ... blocks in the genome to “improve” animals and plants, for example. What they call genetic editing is now also coming closer to use in human beings. For instance ... He Jiankui, who is alleged to have genetically modified twins. "What they call genetic editing is coming closer to use in human beings." Armin Grunwald

Just phone for the bus

“on-demand bus” by phone. All they have to do is register their journey at the call center of a passenger transport company one or two hours before they want ... operation. In October 2016 there were 243 people using the on-demand bus, which calls at around 70 locations in the main town of the district. But in November ... down, local authorities are returning to old ideas. The principle behind so-called combibuses is “back to the stagecoach”. In the same way as the horse-drawn

Playing safely

hammer. Just as indispensable is the “Bible”. This is what Rainer de Vries calls the “DIN-Taschenbuch 105 – Spielplätze und Freizeitanlagen” (“DIN pocket ... average shoulder span of a small child. “Test pieces” are what the “Bible” calls them. Playground experts use them to detect possible points of entrapment

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