Winning Slowly

Bodily modification, from hip replacement to magnets in your fingers. Show Notes How should we think about bodily modification, on the range from replacing a hip joint or a heart valve to enhancing people well beyond normal human capabilities, to adding entirely new capabilities to the human body? Links The Olympics and body modification: Oscar Pistorius is an amputee with artificial legs Tiamat Dragon Lady Cambridge Analytica and #DeleteFacebook On the question of whether we’re already past “peak body hacking” An early prognostication: “6 Extreme Body Enhancements to Expect in the Next 10 Years “I Hacked My Body For a Future That Never Came The Hype Cycle (and its “Trough of Disillusionment) “Cyberpunk Yourself: Body Modification, Augmentation, and Grinders Ear gauges NFC The poll we referenced: “What Americans Think of Human Enhancement Technologies” (Scientific American) Transhumanism – and see also Futurisms, at The New Atlantis, an incisive blog criticizing transhumanism. (This post highlights some of