{"id":901,"date":"2022-06-24T12:05:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T12:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2022\/06\/24\/human-digital-twins-and-evolution-the-real-westworld\/"},"modified":"2022-06-24T12:05:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T12:05:16","slug":"human-digital-twins-and-evolution-the-real-westworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2022\/06\/24\/human-digital-twins-and-evolution-the-real-westworld\/","title":{"rendered":"Human digital twins and evolution: The real Westworld?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3664048\/merlynn-and-the-promise-of-human-digital-twins.html\">I wrote about a new company<\/a> \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merlynn-ai.com\/\">Merlynn<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 that\u2019s selling a rudimentary human digital twin tool. I\u2019ve been thinking about digital twins ever since \u2014 and about how a tool like this could become the next killer productivity application.<\/p>\n<p>When tools that enhance an experience are initially created, they tend to emulate what came before. The first cars looked like horse-drawn carriages without the horses and were even called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Horseless_carriage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">horseless carriages<\/a>. Cars evolved and no longer look at all like those early examples. I expect digital twins to evolve, too, into something very different than they seem to be today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3664931\/human-digital-twins-and-evolution-the-real-westworld.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I wrote about a new company \u2014\u00a0Merlynn\u00a0\u2014 that\u2019s selling a rudimentary human digital twin tool. I\u2019ve been thinking about digital twins ever since \u2014 and about how a tool like this could become the next killer productivity application. When tools that enhance an experience are initially created, they tend to emulate what came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}