Programs aimed at the development of advanced Iron Man extrinskeletons for use by soldiers and industrial workers have existed for a long time, "TALOS" program.
However, a Dutch artist chose to move in a different direction, taken directly from William Gibson's "cyberpunk" stories and novels: the development of a bulletproof skin for humans.
In an interview with Reuters Jalila Essaidi states that the idea came to her in 2001 when she read an article about transgenic goats whose milk contained spider webs in order totreatment του σε μεγάλες ποσότητες για τη creation bulletproof vests. "And I thought, why create a bulletproof vest and not a bulletproof human?" notes.
The project started as an art project, but Jalila Essaidi collaborated with molecular biologist Abdolluhahab el Galbzouri LUMC (Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum) to produce artificial leather, which is three times stronger than Kevlar, and can stop a ball that flies at 50% of its normal velocity. However, as El Galburie points out, in the experiment "the skin had only four layers of tissue ... so we believe that if we make a skin model with 33 layers, we can definitely stop a sphere."
The name of the program is 2.6g 329m / s (performance standard for bulletproof vests). As stated on the project website, "Spider web is much stronger than steel, and it can be produced by human creatures ... if human skin could produce it, then it would be protected from bullets?"
Στο πλαίσιό του, η Jalila Essaidi επιθυμεί να «εξερευνήσει τα κοινωνικά, πολιτικά, ηθικά και πολιτιστικά ζητήματα σχετικά με την ασφάλεια σε έναν κόσμο με πρόσβαση στις νέες βιοτεχνολογίες». Τέτοια θέματα προκύπτουν, όπως σημειώνεται, στη βάση της Ancientς ανθρώπινης επιθυμίας να είναι κάποιος άτρωτος. «Σύμφωνα με τον θρύλο, ο Αχιλλέας ήταν άτρωτος παντού εκτός από τη φτέρνα του. Μήπως στο κοντινό μέλλον, χάρη στη βιοtechnology, would we not be required to be descendants of gods to have such characteristics?'
