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AUGMENTED THERAPY. "When Everything is Programmable Technology. Therapeutic Forgetting: selectively deleting memories is on the horizon. Augmented Cognition: understanding and overcoming cognitive limitations." http://www.iftf.org/our-work/people-technology/technology-horizons/when-everything-is-programmable/when-everything-is-programmable-forecast-and-technology-cards/ View in LinkedIn

NEW TASTE ADOPTED. "Humans do have receptors for L-glutamate and when something is really, really yummy in a non-sweet, sour, bitter or salty way, that's what you're tasting. In 2002, this became the new view. It's in the textbooks now and scientists decided to call this "new" taste, in Ikeda's honor, "umami." https://lnkd.in/eqJGRM2 View in LinkedIn

REPROGRAMMING BIOLOGY. "At the intersection of the biosciences and engineering, researchers are designing and building living systems that may not exist in nature." http://www.iftf.org/our-work/people-technology/technology-horizons/when-everything-is-programmable/when-everything-is-programmable-forecast-and-technology-cards/ View in LinkedIn

THE FIFTH TASTE. "L-glutamate, said Ikeda, is a fifth taste. When Escoffier created veal stock, he was concentrating umami. When Japanese made their dashi, they were doing the same thing. When you bite into an anchovy, they are "like glutamate speedballs. They are pure umami ... Aristotle was wrong. Plato was wrong. We have five tastes, not four." https://lnkd.in/eqJGRM2 View in LinkedIn

DATA AND COMMUNICATION. "A decade after Wi-Fi put all our computers on a wireless network—and half a decade after the smartphone revolution put a series of pocket-size devices on that network—we are seeing the dawn of an era when the most mundane items in our lives can talk wirelessly among themselves, performing tasks on command, giving us data we’ve never had before." (IoT). https://lnkd.in/eUGiTeE View in LinkedIn

"GLUTAMATE is found in most living things, but when they die, when organic matter breaks down, the glutamate molecule breaks apart. This can happen on a stove when you cook meat, over time when you age a parmesan cheese, by fermentation as in soy sauce or under the sun as a tomato ripens. When glutamate becomes L-glutamate, that's when things get "delicious." " https://lnkd.in/eqJGRM2 View in LinkedIn

SMART BRICKS. "Bricks could be programmed to analyze their own loading conditions or orientation and might contain blueprints to build a wall or guide someone in the construction process." https://lnkd.in/e74uquz View in LinkedIn

UMAMI, the universal fifth taste, imparted by glutamate, characterized by savory or delicious, was discovered only 100 years ago by Professor Kikunae Ikeda. It is found in soup stocks, meat dishes, aged cheeses, air-dried ham, shellfish, mushrooms, and ripe tomatoes. https://lnkd.in/eTt_MER View in LinkedIn

DECISION-MAKING MATTER. "One project, called Logic Matter, encodes simple decision-making in a material, using only that substance's properties, shape, and geometry." https://lnkd.in/e74uquz View in LinkedIn

OLD VIEW. "So here's a question you don't hear every day: How many tastes can a person taste? There's sweet, of course. Then sour. Then salty. And when the Greek philosopher Democritus took up the question several thousand years ago, he added bitter. So that makes four." https://lnkd.in/eqJGRM2 View in LinkedIn