Hakuna Mhou Inokumira Mhuru Isiri Yayo: Examining the Interface between the African Body and 21st Century Emergent Disruptive Technologies

2021 ◽  
pp. 002193472110260
Author(s):  
Artwell Nhemachena
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Disruptive Technologies

Colonially depicted as a region distinctive for fables and fabrications, Africa has ever since not been allowed to reclaim anything original. Dispossessed of their original wealth, Africans have been forced to live in fabled and fabricated houses, eating fabled, and fabricated food—closer to animals. Similarly, dispossessed of their original human identities, Africans have been forced to adopt fabricated identities. With the 21st century not promising any return to original African human identities, Africans are set to be further nanotechnologically (using tiny nanoparticles) fabricated into cyborgs that speak to ongoing posthumanist and transhumanist experiments with emergent disruptive technologies. Inhabiting not only fabricated houses but also increasingly inhabiting nanotechnologically fabled and fabricated bodies, Africans should learn to, in terms of the Shona (a people of Zimbabwe) proverb, hakuna mhou inokumira mhuru isiri yayo (no cow lows for a calf that is not its own), repossess original mastery over their own lives.

Materials for the 21st Century

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Segal
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Synthetic Polymers ◽  
Solid State Lighting ◽  
Natural Polymers ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
Lighting Energy ◽  
Potential Use

The book is a general text that shows how materials can contribute to solving problems facing nations in the 21st century. It is illustrated with diverse applications and highlights the potential of existing materials for everyday life, healthcare and the economies of nations. There are 13 chapters and a glossary of 500 materials with their descriptions, historical development, their use or potential use and a range of references. Specific areas include synthetic polymers (e.g. nylon), natural polymers (e.g. proteins, cellulose) and the role of materials in the development of digital computers and in healthcare. Solid-state lighting, energy supplies in the 21st century, disruptive technologies and intellectual property, in particular patents, are discussed. The book concludes by asking how the 21st century will be characterised. Will it be the Silicon Age, Genomic Age or New Polymer Age, as examples?

scholarly journals Programs and investments in disruptive technologies in defence

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 63-75
Author(s):  
Mirko Šundov
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
Hybrid Threats

Hybrid Threats and Wars in 21st Century - Making Society and Critical Infrastructure Resilient are extremely important for us to respond to different future threats and challenges. Defence leadership has acknowledged that they must make significant and urgent changes to its people, processes, organisations and culture if they are to keep pace with its strategic competitors and sustain its national security posture.

Disruptive Technologies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Segal
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
3D Printing ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Gene Editing ◽  
High Temperature Superconductors ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Three Dimensional Printing ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
Auxetic Materials ◽  
Dimensional Printing

Chapter 9 describes potential disruptive technologies in the 21st century. It covers the expanding area of gene editing, also known as genome editing or CRISPR. It describes ‘wonder materials’ such as graphene and high-temperature superconductors. Three-dimensional printing, also known as 3D printing, is covered in the text. Two materials that have intriguing properties, namely metamaterials and auxetic materials and their properties, are described.

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