Phew... I'm exhausted. It has been a huge conference and every day - nay, every hour - has brought more exciting opportunities and topics that make my mind buzz with possibility: human longevity; integrated, personalised medicine; virtual worlds, virtual reality...
Here are some questions that came out of Day 2 that really changed up the level of thinking:
Human Longevity
1. How does life and your behaviours change if humans live to 150, if 100 is the new 60?
2. DNA contains all the necessary information for cellular life. We are just beginning to understand the interaction of the human system with the microbiome. How would you feel if your doctor prescribed you bacteria?
Virtual Worlds
1. Could virtual reality environments, like SecondLife, revolutionise the way we interact with each other? The conference attendees were excited about the possibility of improving the usual boring conference calls with avatars and (gulp) replacing the corporate offsite with "virtual holidays" to Maui...
2. You can buy property, virtual furnishings and even virtual clothes in virtual worlds. Real money is exchanged for these virtual items. With 39 million VR head mounted displays (to be covered in next article) expected to be sold by 2018, what does a new world (and a platform) mean to your business? Your life?
This is essentially a mindset shake up, another advent of totally different platform and technology, requiring different ways of thinking about some age old problems (quality of health, aesthetics, communication, connection, cost savings, entertainment...).
#virtualreality #longevity
Here are some questions that came out of Day 2 that really changed up the level of thinking:
Human Longevity
1. How does life and your behaviours change if humans live to 150, if 100 is the new 60?
2. DNA contains all the necessary information for cellular life. We are just beginning to understand the interaction of the human system with the microbiome. How would you feel if your doctor prescribed you bacteria?
Virtual Worlds
1. Could virtual reality environments, like SecondLife, revolutionise the way we interact with each other? The conference attendees were excited about the possibility of improving the usual boring conference calls with avatars and (gulp) replacing the corporate offsite with "virtual holidays" to Maui...
2. You can buy property, virtual furnishings and even virtual clothes in virtual worlds. Real money is exchanged for these virtual items. With 39 million VR head mounted displays (to be covered in next article) expected to be sold by 2018, what does a new world (and a platform) mean to your business? Your life?
This is essentially a mindset shake up, another advent of totally different platform and technology, requiring different ways of thinking about some age old problems (quality of health, aesthetics, communication, connection, cost savings, entertainment...).
#virtualreality #longevity
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