• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2018.11a
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• pp.1-2
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• 2018

최근 포스트휴머니즘은 오늘날 북아메리카와 서유럽을 비롯하여 동아시아 학문 공동체에서 가장 뜨거운 화두가 되고 있다. 포스트휴머니즘은 4차 산업혁명의 핵심인 NBIC기술의 융합으로 사유와 논의가 가능해진 개념이다. 포스트휴머니즘는 기존의 휴머니즘 그리고 트랜스 휴머니즘과 밀접한 관계를 맺는다. 서구 휴머니즘 전통의 핵심은 17세기 합리주의 정신에 이르러 하나의 절정을 이룬다. 논자는 오늘날 뜨거운 화두인 포스트휴먼 논의의 발단은 서구 모더니티로부터 비롯된다고 본다. 기술의 융합적 발전이 인간, 인간의 본질, 인간의 정의를 변화시키고 있다는 점에 주목한다. NBIC으로 대표되는 과학기술융합은 인간을 변화시키고 있음은 분명하다. 우리는 그것을 트랜스휴머니즘으로 정의한 바 있다. 이제 인류문명은 트랜스휴머니즘을 넘어서 각종 보철술이 인간의 몸을 대신하는 포스트휴먼으로 진화 가능한 단계로 접어들었다. 기술의 급진적인 발전으로 기존의 근대적 재현과 표상, 상징체계가 바뀌는 것이다. 미셀 푸코는 '이를 두고 '근대적 인간의 소멸'을 예견한 바 있다. (1) 우리는 이 시점에서 이러한 급진적이고도 근본적인 변화를 촉발하는 '기술혁명' 시대에 '인간은 무엇인가', 인간적인 적인 것은 무엇인가'에 관한 이른바 인간학적 지평에 대환 논의가 긴급하다고 판단한다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.57 no.3
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• pp.321-330
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• 2019

With the rapid development trend in multidisciplinary science and convergence technology, digital data storages have been necessary in order to accumulate a huge amount of information with high security. The possibility that biological DNA code system can offer encoding and decoding information has been illustrated by many researchers. In this review, we summarized current issue of info-convergence nanohybrid system, so-called infohybrid. DNA-inorganic nanohybrid materials and devices to achieve DNA-based molecular information system are presented. The possible applications focusing on tracking-and-traceability management, authenticity verification, and nano-forensics are also reviewed with four steps of encoding, encrypting, decrypting and decoding. We also highlighted the potential of smart code system with Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno (NBIC) convergence technology through the recently published case study of Avatar DNA nanohybrid system with smart phone.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.411-419
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• 2019

Nowadays we are not able to consider and imagine anything without taking into account what is called Artificial Intelligence. Even broadcasting media technologies could not be thought of outside this newly emerging technology of A.I.. Since the last part of 20th century, this technology seemingly is accelerating it's development thanks to an unbelievably enormous computational capacity of data information treatments. In conjunction with the firmly established worldwide platform companies like GAFA(Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple), the key cutting edge technologies dubbed NBIC(Nanotech, Biotech, Information Technology, Cognitive science) converge to change the map of the current civilization by affecting the human relationship with the world and hence modifying what is essential in humans. Under the sign of the converging technologies, the relatively recently coined concepts such as 'trans(post)humanism' are emerging in the academic sphere in the North American and Major European regions. Even though the so-called trans(post)human movements are prevailing in the major technological spots, we have to say that these terms do not yet reach an unanimous acceptation among many experts coming from diverse fields. Indeed trans(post)humanism as a sort of obscure term has been a largely controversial trend. Because there have been many different opinions depending on scientific, philosophical, medical, engineering scholars like Peter Sloterdijk, K. N. Hayles, Neil Badington, Raymond Kurzweil, Hans Moravec, Laurent Alexandre, Gilbert Hottois just to name a few. However, considering the highly dazzling development of artificial intelligence technology basically functioning in conjunction with the cybernetic communication system firstly conceived by Nobert Wiener, MIT mathematician, we can not avoid questioning what A. I. signifies and how it will affect the current media communication environment.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.836-848
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• 2019

This paper aims at providing a critical view over the cybernetics theory especially of first generation on which the artificial intelligence heavily depends nowadays. There has been a commonly accepted thought that the conception of artificial intelligence could not has been possible without being influenced by N. Wiener's cybernetic feedback based information system. Despite the founder of contemporary cybernetics' ethical concerns in order to avoid an increasing entropy phenomena(social violence, economic misery, wars) produced through a negative dynamics of the western modernity regarded as the most advanced form of humanism. In this civilizationally changing atmosphere, the newly born cybernetic technology was thus firmly believed as an antidote to these vices deeply rooted in humanism itself. But cybernetics has been turned out to be a self-organizing, self-controlling mechanical system that entails the possibility of telegraphing human brain (which are transformed into patterns) through the uploading of human brain neurons digitalized by the artificial intelligence embedded into computing technology. On this background emerges posthuman (or posthumanism) movement of which concepts have been theorized mainly by its ardent apostles like N. K. Hayles, Neil Bedington, Laurent Alexandre, Donna J. Haraway. The converging of NBIC Technologies leading to the opening of a much more digitalizing society has served as a catalyst to promote the posthuman representations and different narratives especially in the contemporary visual arts as well as in the study of humanities including philosophy and fictional literature. Once Bruno Latour wrote "Modernity is often defined in terms of humanism, either as a way of saluting the birth of 'man' or as a way of announcing his death. But this habit is itself modern, because it remains asymmetrical. It overlooks the simultaneous birth of 'nonhumaniy' - things, or objects, or beasts, - and the equally strange beginning of a crossed-out God, relegated to the sidelines."4) These highly suggestive ideas enable us to better understand what kind of human beings would emerge following the dazzlingly accelerating advancement of artificial intelligence technology. We wonder whether or not this newly born humankind would become essentially Homo Artificialis as a neuronal man stripping off his biological apparatus. However due to this unprecedented situation humans should deal with enormous challenges involving ethical, metaphysical, existential implications on their life.