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A man with metal horns protruding from his forehead and a split tongue poking out between his teeth advanced toward me with a scalpel. "I've never done this before," he joked, inching closer.
A full-sleeve tattoo snaked out from beneath his black T-shirt, extending from a demon on his bicep to a skull on his fist. My eyes darted between skull and scalpel, then instinctively shut as I cringed, bracing for contact. Zack Watson, the inked-up body modification artist I'd hired — and drove seven hours from New York City to see — was about to sew a magnet under my skin.
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Biohacking enthusiasts have tinkered with electronic tattoos and subdermal — underneath-the-skin — implants for two decades, sharing their efforts in videos on YouTube and internet forums to spread and encourage innovation. Proponents believe smart implants represent the future of wearable technology, potentially making humans healthier and more efficient while providing new opportunity to consumer-technology companies such as Apple Inc. AAPL, -0.34% and Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, -0.71% GOOG, -0.57% that are investing heavily in technology that could revolutionize health care.All of these predictions [quoted in the article] come as global adoption of wearables is forecast to boom. Juniper Research, which tracks consumer technology trends, expects world-wide wearable shipments to reach 420 million by 2020, more than four times the 80 million shipped in 2015. A similar surge is predicted for medical devices, with shipments projected to triple to 70 million over the next four years.
Trans-humanism has been around for a while, but the article focuses on the investment capital that is now flowing into the area.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Thursday November 17 2016, @11:17AM
Do you remember when the US army started making drugs to make soldiers more efficient? this is a fact.
Another fact is that a trained soldier, even back in the day, was definitely NOT an investment to waste by giving him the wrong substances/doses.
A third fact is that XTC and other substances went to million of young people through the "UNDERGROUND" drugs trafficking.
Do 1+1+1. A large scale experiment.
The reports of LSD being literally pushed at woodstock and the laurel canyon hippies having strong ties with the military/intelligence community are other potential facts to keep in mind.
Now it is prosthetics with tattoos and horns? Suuuure, underground, suuuuure. This is the Mundum, the real face of the system, VC capital, the definition of mainstream. Bonus points for horns and double tongue.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Webweasel on Thursday November 17 2016, @01:13PM
From "As seen on TV" By the band Pitchshifter (1999)
Each new hot generation has a statemen they want to call their own. Tattoos? Piercings? that's for Moms and Dads. What you want do is spend your allowance on Devil horn implats,
Elephand Man head, designer tails, third leg, fourth leg -- everyone a hermaphrodite! And on a lighter note...
Priyom.org Number stations, Russian Military radio. "You are a bad, bad man. Do you have any other virtues?"-Runaway1956
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday November 18 2016, @12:34AM
Reminds me of Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Geotti on Friday November 18 2016, @02:01AM
The reports of LSD being literally pushed at woodstock and the laurel canyon hippies having strong ties with the military/intelligence community are other potential facts to keep in mind.
Yeah, uhm.. With Pills, yeah, definitely an experiment.
I mean, you go to a club and the music sucks, then some guy comes along and offers you pills (which you kindly refuse, because why the fuck should you be dancing to music you don't enjoy and give the dj a false impression of accomplishment thus deteriorating the situation further?), for what? So that they can identify a substance that makes you move the longest time to the dumbest rhythm? Doing it on such a scale to find out about side-effects? Who knows...
Acid, on the other hand, well that's what I would call a successful experiment.
"No, dude. Thanks for your offer, but I don't need a hangover for two days. Want some acid instead?"
But why would they push it to common people?
It's also interesting how acquiring the ingredients needed to produce MDMA is so much simpler than getting the ergotamine required for LSD. But I digress, even though this is about hacking the human (or its firmware), it's little to do with the cyber-aspect of it.