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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

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• The Olympics and body modification: Oscar Pistorius is an amputee with artificial legs
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• Tiamat Dragon Lady
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• Cambridge Analytica and #DeleteFacebook
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• On the question of whether we\\u2019re already past \\u201cpeak body hacking\\u201d\\n
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  • An early prognostication: \\u201c6 Extreme Body Enhancements to Expect in the Next 10 Years
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  • \\u201cI Hacked My Body For a Future That Never Came
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  • The Hype Cycle (and its \\u201cTrough of Disillusionment)
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  • \\u201cCyberpunk Yourself: Body Modification, Augmentation, and Grinders
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• Ear gauges
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• NFC
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• The poll we referenced: \\u201cWhat Americans Think of Human Enhancement Technologies\\u201d (Scientific American)
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• Transhumanism \\u2013\\xa0and see also Futurisms, at The New Atlantis, an incisive blog criticizing transhumanism. (This post highlights some of the very same questions we get at in this episode.)
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Matthew Lee Anderson\\u2019s Earthen Vessels is, sadly, out of print \\u2013\\xa0but we know Matt, and he has some extra copies, so if you want one, email us!

Music

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• \\u201cQuartessence\\u201d, by Kerim K\\xf6nig used by permission.
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• \\u201cWinning Slowly Theme\\u201d by Chris Krycho.
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