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NO.3 Post-digital Species
[Neo-futurist Design]
“Searching for New Possibilities for Human Life Extension in the Future Post-Digital Era”
INTRODUCTION:
In the future, the importance of virtual identities in society is increasing day by day, and the handling of digital legacies has become a focus of attention. Digital funeral home services have emerged, but their popularity has exacerbated power consumption and environmental pollution. To solve this problem, we utilize biotechnology to create a new form of life between real people and virtual images - “post-digital species” - by converting pollutant methane into proteins through methanophilic bacteria and combining it with the DNA of the deceased, providing a new approach to post-life continuation in the post-digital era.
Death
Convert
Reborn
Worldview Setting
In the future, virtual reality has been integrated into people's lives, and people will not be able to distinguish between reality and the virtual, and their time will be equally divided between these two worlds.People's identities will evolve with the future world: a complete individual will consist of a real self and an avatar, both of which will have equal importance in social relations.
Research
I started my research from the point of view of storing a large amount of information in the virtual world of the future. In view of the possible forms of storing information in the future world and the energy consumption behind it, I intervened in biological sciences and proposed the possibility of creating new life by utilizing the carbon dioxide emitted due to the large amount of storing information in the form of biological re-cultivation.
Thinking:Triangulation among species
The Three Stages of Life Reinvention
Based on what I have learned from the research of a large amount of preliminary data, I have combined the proteins produced by the methanophilic bacteria with the DNA samples of the deceased to form the third life after the digital life and the real life. The three build a life triangle relationship. In the process of the third life, it needs to go through three stages of “Death-Convert-Reborn”, and each stage will have different procedural steps.
Concept model & The process of birth
The “third life” growth tree: digital death is the foundation, resource transformation is the trunk, and biosynthesis and the birth of new species form the apex of the model, the fruit of the tree of life.
STAGE:1 DEATH——(Digital Funeral Home)In the first phase, the digital funeral home will hold digital funerals for dead avatars, which will carry the human touch of the post-digital era.
[Digital Funeral Service Flowchart]
These diagrams will show the complete process of a digital funeral home providing a range of services to a deceased digitizer, and where the digitizer's data goes after death.
[Conceptual Model]
STAGE:2 CONVERT——(Transformation of Resources)
Carbon dioxide caused by the electricity consumption of the digital funeral home will be collected and converted into methane to cultivate methanophilic bacteria.
[Conceptual Model]
We will show how carbon dioxide is collected and converted to methane.
STAGE:3 REBORN——(NO.3 Post-digital Species)
This phase will demonstrate the lab's use of methanophilic bacteria to artificially create proteins, combining them with the DNA of the deceased to create a third species.
[Biological breeding laboratory]
[Conceptual Model]
New Species & Archives
FINAL VIDEO