{"id":205408,"date":"2025-02-03T23:42:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T05:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/digital-doppelgangers-are-helping-scientists-tackle-everyday-problems-and-showing-what-makes-us-human"},"modified":"2025-02-03T23:42:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T05:42:36","slug":"digital-doppelgangers-are-helping-scientists-tackle-everyday-problems-and-showing-what-makes-us-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/digital-doppelgangers-are-helping-scientists-tackle-everyday-problems-and-showing-what-makes-us-human","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Digital doppelgangers\u2019 are helping scientists tackle everyday problems\u2014and showing what makes us human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f6m3-HHuoiI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As rising seas lap at its shore, Tuvalu faces an existential threat. In an effort to preserve the tiny island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20241121-tuvalu-the-pacific-islands-creating-a-digital-nation-in-the-metaverse-due-to-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\">government has been building<\/a> a \u201cdigital twin\u201d of the entire country.<\/p>\n<p>Digital twins are exactly what they sound like\u2014a virtual double or replica of a physical, real-world entity. Scientists have been creating <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/digital+twins\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">digital twins<\/a> of everything from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20210916\/This-3D-modeling-reveals-how-SARS-CoV-2-attacks.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">molecules<\/a>, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csiro.au\/en\/research\/technology-space\/robotics\/digital-twin\" target=\"_blank\">infrastructure<\/a>, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/destination-earth.eu\/event\/esa-digital-twin-earth-components-open-science-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\">entire planets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also now possible to construct a digital twin of an individual person. In other words, a \u201cdigital doppelganger.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As rising seas lap at its shore, Tuvalu faces an existential threat. In an effort to preserve the tiny island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, its government has been building a \u201cdigital twin\u201d of the entire country. Digital twins are exactly what they sound like\u2014a virtual double or replica of a physical, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}