Introducing 2 books about AI and the body.

■ Introducing 2 books about AI and the body.I will introduce two publications about AI and the human body.“NEO HUMAN” by Peter Scott-Morgan.The book follows the author, of a scientist diagnosed with motor neurone disease, who transformed himself into a cyborg by replacing his body with a machine while supplementing his brain with AI. He lives virtually through voice synthesis, gaze input, and his own avatar.Rather than confronting his disease, he uses it as an opportunity to be born again, a challenge that paves the way toward the future of humanity. Even...

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The Fight Against GAFA’s Expansion

■ The Fight Against GAFA’s Expansion“The Fight Against GAFA’s Expansion,” written by Masako Wakae.A business book on how telecommunications, manufacturers, and eC companies suffered defeat.…which is what I misunderstood it to be, and was late in reading it.Journalism, academia, and policy theory follows nationalists from industry, academia, and government, who confronted the struggle for data supremacy and questioned national strategy. A good book, and a must-read for IT professionals.The secrecy of communications, freedom of expression, personal...

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The Century of Communication

■ The Century of CommunicationI read through “The Century of Communication: 150 Years of Information Technology and National Strategies” by Tetsuya Ohno. The attack and defense of communication sovereignty and infrastructure development since the Meiji era.Fierce political and military struggles between nations and dark conflicts between the political, public, and private sectors regarding the domestic telecommunications industry.Reading this makes the current GAFA measures seem childish.Teruo Ariyama’s “Information Hegemony and Imperial Japan,”...

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The establishment of an industry-academia-government forum on digital policy.

■ The establishment of an industry-academia-government forum on digital policy.The Digital Policy Forum, a discussion platform for digital policy among industry, academia, and the government, has been launched.The forum is a community for open online and offline discussion and proposal of cross-cutting themes related to social, economic, and digital issues such as technology.It is a place where wisdoms are connected and discussed, from which action can be taken.https://www.digitalpolicyforum.jp/Purpose: “In recent years, issues such as security...

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