In this blog post, we will take a balanced look at the pros and cons of eating dog meat from the perspectives of speciesism, ethics, and culture. Beef steak, loved around the world, and samgyeopsal and chicken, popular in Korea, are all forms of meat consumption. When we eat these foods, we mostly just think, “This is delicious,” and rarely consider the animals that were sacrificed to...
Would we be happier if we were born customized humans?
In this blog post, we explore the meaning of human life by comparing the lives of customized humans born through genetic engineering with those of natural humans. In 2001, experimental mice with fluorescent genes were developed in the United States. In 2003, fluorescent fish were released in Taiwan, and in 2006, fluorescent pigs appeared in the same country. Let’s think about it...
What is the significance of handwriting in the digital age?
In this blog post, we will explore the reasons why we still insist on handwriting in an era dominated by digital devices and examine its significance in depth. Why is the 21st century called the digital age? Mobile phones, which were once only capable of texting and making calls, suddenly gained video call capabilities, and in less than a decade, smartphones appeared, combining the...
Can machines recognize faces like humans?
In this blog post, we will focus on deepface algorithms and deep learning technology to explore whether machines can recognize faces as well as humans, or even better. Can machines recognize and distinguish faces as accurately as humans, or even better? To find the answer to this question, we need to look at DeepFace, a face recognition algorithm developed by Meta (formerly Facebook)...