Never was the relationship between humans and technology so close but for cyborgs its not close enough they merge their bodies with technology. So i have created a new sense new organ and design my perception of reality i have an implant here and i use my implants on a daily basis. Without it being medically necessary cyborgs inject magnets into their fingers plant chips under their skin they implant technology. Reasonings are we not simply loonies with crazy i did with people who were trying to shape the future so we started and now we do like a hundred a month maybe if we saw the exponential growth this catching on its already a serious illness there are some hundred thousand users under way were going to have to run a cable for the creator ok two million. Sixty minutes. Will it be normal in the future to upgrade our bodies or are we already there. If your mobile phone is running out of battery many people say im running out of battery this is a clear sign of using or talking about that knowledge in first first person as if you are already Technology Yeah if someone offers me to to. Get in your hand instead of this one but just stronger and better and more efficient and more precise. Then i would be absolutely willing to do this. Because creating new boundaries of in the system or getting from stuff. Neal harbison is as he says the worlds first officially recognized cyborg the composer has been color blind since birth he sees the world in shades of gray. So the installer has its own light frequency which corresponds to a sound frequency and so the out that allows me to hear the sound of each car theres. This is a so each color has its own note so when i put colors on a piece of paper to me its like with the music on paper. In two thousand and four new harbison had the antenna implanted by a surgeon who doesnt wish to be identified it contains a sensor that recognizes color frequencies and transmits them to a chip in the back of his head and this chip turns them into audio signals. So its. G g a im just improvising this is a bit like jazz just going to. The beginning was overwhelming hearing so many callers and some time of other patients the brain will need to adapt to the new input until it becomes like any other sense or preexisting sense and then when it becomes normal you feel the need to extend it again saw that cycle is what happened to me that when i was able to hear all the colors ritual. I felt it was a repetition all the time so thats why in friends and. In this way harbison can also hear strong sunlight motion detectors remote controls and antitheft devices but is that desirable twenty four hours a day. So the antenna is always on theres no switch at night when they dont of the lights theres usually no color so theres silence but the internet is on so people can still send callers to my head while im asleep so leave this happens. They can color my dreams. Its an unusual way of living which often creates problems harbison fought with the british authorities for a long time before he was allowed to include the antenna in his passport. Well the biggest role of. His society its people are not tolerant till one of the season was hard on those its also people that will really think that we are against nature and against humans and against god. But harmison also has allies some of them in germany. There is a community of people that. Are very. Enthusiastic about cyborg ism maybe not so i think theyd be able to hear more of a social. Cyborgs view themselves as for runners of a growing. Movement. Consent belongs to the berlin cyborg society. Cyborgs need visit instead. Hes a chocolate maker and a member of germanys pirate party and he intends to turn himself into a cyborg. Lives together with his partner and their children the past few years have been hard he suffers from arthritis already has two artificial knees and an artificial hip and although hes just managing to walk again itll soon be time for another head. And he wants to upgrade the new one. From behind him all the things you could do with a hip like that of course by a monitoring would be no problem the bladder neural impulses provide a lot of information and then of course the little gimmicks like a mobile wife i rusa or i could have a smartphone in my pocket next to the artificial hip and it will get charged when i move all from the heat of my blood or i just dont have something healthy removed those now of course not nothings as good as the original or you know if its what you think it cool if i only had a wife i wrote her in his hip. I for one as root for wife i wherever i happen to be cool. I wouldnt be the rain god youd be the wife i god but you are that already. I dont know nobody would believe me. How do people get such ideas. As i do think when i left there i can for as long as ive known him hes wanted to be connected to the internet through a little device on his neck like in Science Fiction as well as a didnt get done hes had this idea ever since ive known him anything thats possible that would upgrade his body he would do it immediately. But as a partner. When. Received his three Artificial Joints you societe the surgeries with pain and feeling. It would be different if they built in a wireless charger for his smartphone he says. But german law does not permit implants with supplementary functions so and has been in direct contact with manufacturers for months. In germany an implant is just an implant you dont play with it the glass the current view thats what we want to change we want to reach the people who make these decisions who can also say wait a minute theres a gap that needs to be filled you need to get your foot in the door and if manufacturers dont respond those will. At some time in the future will artificial spare parts be able to do more than the originals this question obsesses that old maya he was born without the lower half of his left arm and wears a prosthetic hand probably the best thats currently available. I would consider. Basic value the prosthetic hand cant do anything more than my right hand can do that with one exception i can twist the prosthetic three hundred sixty degree continuously but its not very practical i always say its my party trick. But its also very interesting theoretically because of course it shows that even a first static name which in many. This is not as good as the original can be better in other areas in very specific abilities but. I think. Maya is a social psychologist at the Technical University and can. This desire some people have for artificial bodyparts even though theyre perfectly healthy. I do find it a bit strange when people say in theory im ready to replace a healthy body part with an artificial one because it would make me somehow better of it. I think well frankly being one hundred percent healthy is a privilege that i dont have. On so i think perhaps you should be a bit more aware of what a privilege that is that you enjoy. Humans are weak vulnerable and forgetful. Technology is supposed to liberate them from natures limitations but why take tools in your hands when you can carry them inside yourself. Is this the next logical step to upgrade humans to become stronger faster more perfect. Is this the end of human weakness. Or the beginning of the end of humanity. How many dreams of overcoming the limitations of his body with technology. As a small step in this direction he inserts micro implants in his body. December twenty ten at the Chaos Communication Congress left anonym gave a lecture titled cybernetics for the masses explained how you can perform. Your own implantations had very little cost. Part a lecture mentioned magnet implants and r. F. I. D. M. Plugs. What i became very curious about how magnetic and electromagnetic fields would feel. Under electric power lines but a comment you factor is researching whether drivers could be sent signals via magnetic vibrations for instance in a dangerous situation. Humans react to tactile feelings more quickly than any other sensory data. Partly powerman lives in here on the german dutch border he now has five magnets and six chips in his body each chip has its own function. Because the advantage is that i can never lose my keys or have them stolen from me i can never locked myself out. And it makes life easier for my hands are full i dont have to dig into my trouser pockets to find my keys or look to see which key i need for the door. With another chip powerman can log into his computer. The chips operate with a technology known as r. F. Id radio frequency identification it allows data to be transmitted over a short distance without a battery. Has already ordered another chip the manufacturer says it will eventually include more and more apps which will allow it to do things like send encrypted email and make payments. Weve already come up with the idea of making eyeglasses lasering developing hearing implants. With the aim of making life easier. I only see advantages. Cyborgs are viewed as eccentrics but the industry believes this will change. Is often invited to talk to telecommunications companies. Thanking him for. Drawing. The first one of. His face and his reaction when i asked him i. Hair for example. Has different different shades of. Steve writes has a melody in his eyes because he has not like a small pattern. Mommy has one note last he has no hair so he has less sounds. Like a stuffed painting very unsaturated. Neil harbison makes a good living from his lectures his cyborg existence is it just clever self promotion or is he really a social pioneer. Yank twenty thirty years i think it will be strange. Not to have an implant of some sort in the same way that now its very common to see people with. Maybe fifty years it would be really strange knowledge of a very common to modify our scheme it will be very common to modify our minds. If you want to. For cyborg the implantation process poses a practical problem doctors are not permitted to perform nonmedical surgeries thats where he comes in the piercer turns humans into cyborgs. Today its turn. She wants to have a magnet implanted in her hand. Still quite annoyed. Partly curiosity but mainly for professional reasons im a dressmaker and i dont like pink. So a small magnet here on my hand will be very useful to a lot of. Undergoing a procedure like this for such a trifling reason is surprising but he could he isnt bound by the restrictions that apply to doctors and doesnt ask too many questions. Its a gray area so its ok as long as the patient signs a contract that she bears all the risks. And implanting magnets carries considerable risks. Sometimes seen magnets from less reliable firms corrode in the body. Of a rodent right out of their casings or else they triggered allergic reactions. Theres no way of knowing how the body will react to magnets it can reject them nerves can be damaged. From the people. Its quite uncomfortable. For. The procedure costs roughly one hundred fifty euros and takes about ten minutes. It feels like a polling sensation its pretty strong and. Most people would never dream of implanting magnets or chips in their bodies but he cannot believe that will change. There are now chips in the beta phase that have more functionality. And i can see that in two five maybe ten years even more useful implants will be invented. Yeah. Something like this or a device that registers heart rate and other physical data. Like friends but in a much smaller format. Is as big as a smartphone tin can and from the us had it implanted in his arm in twenty thirteen everybody my name is jim cannon i just became the first man to implant the device in my body. For the purpose of an airplane myself and. Can continuously monitor body temperature and heart rate and transmit the data to a smart phone. How to take home and is also interested in this implant. To have met him he didnt have the implant any longer but from what i see on the video its quite big. It looks creepy and it was dangerous the batteries could have leaked thats why tim canon had it removed after three months but he wanted to show whats possible. Similar in france are available on a smaller scale. I have an implant in my lower arm which measures my body temperature and has a Temperature Sensor inside. And i have an r. F. Id device that reads the champ. From the displays the serial number and the temperature in my lower. Unlike their monitors or activity trackers these chips gather the data continuously without you having to think about them. One day nano robots could circulate in our bloodstream and analyze everything whats good for us when. Stressed we could continuously monitor our health our him to encrypt data in the meantime he wants to tweak the chips he already has for that hes going to hack space a Meeting Point for technology freaks in here leon powe men founded it himself. At the drinks machine he only has to scan his chip and it transmits his data. How many of his friends want to get more and more out of each device. I want to lock and unlock my car without using a key if you accidentally feed current into this white wire you break the device this could go wrong. Palin has to hack the switch of his central lock system so it can read his chip he tinkers with the device for five hours. Eventually he succeeds. The central locking system can now read his chip. Now it has to be installed in the car. Its locked. Up. Great now i can throw away the case for. Once again polman has made his life a little easier now he just has to wait for the chip he ordered from the us. Senate berlin is fighting for his cyborg hip so far the implant manufacturers have given him the Cold Shoulder hes decided to seek the support of his orthopedist who is peter hands. With the dr agreed to implant an artificial hip equipped with a motion activated device to charge a mobile phone or one containing a mobile wife i router. Has a very dark was ok so in the all the sockets of the hit there would be space for a little gimmick. Certainly it could easily be built into an artificial joint you just have to watch out for the radiation exposure of course thats an ethical issue right thats. Because its measured laws and ethics play a role but were not just playing around if somebody is going to have an operation like this they can think about whether it could be upgraded a bit they are of course. The radiation exposure could become a problem because the radiation would have to pass through all layers of the skin the implications of that havent been studied yet but the doctor believes in the future of these implants. He turns it off im very open to ideas like this that i dont want to be in favor certainly from the medical point of view but also when its really useful to the question not so hard for them but if your mother. Most physicians are very skeptical of the idea of cyborgs its the first time and has received support from a doctor but where does the compulsion come from to do such a radical thing. And i mean come on thats technical for them for gripping your body with technology is a way of making it more efficient and appearing more efficient and perhaps of increasing your own value a bit there is all that in my own disability has certainly had an impact on my own selfesteem and i know the feeling that a bit of complicated technology coming krzysztof sense of selfworth. So its to be had for lying. In this future humans will be able to redesign their own bodies what will it be like when we all know everything about each other immediately when tiny robots inside us monitor our blood and when the distinction between online and offline has blurred. A brave new world. Will it be like when humans first invented tools and life became easier or will it become a competition for the best. And what about people who refuse such implants will this produce another divide like the one between rich and poor privileged and the disadvantaged. In sweden the idea of cyborg is more commonplace. Media enterprise is holding an employee. Taishan party. The guest list includes many from stockholm creative scene. They can upgrade their bodies at the party. With blood the founder of a bio hacker group came up with the idea. Bio hackers refuse to accept biology and the limitations of nature. They want to upgrade their bodies with technology. Today so your blood is promoting r f i d chips the same chipset patrick palm and carries in his body. I mean it works like this when you most we are skeptical about things we dont really understand right but if you explain how it works without a good things what about things what are the dangers when then most people are simply comfortable with it so this is what i tried to do im not in the business of selling implants i just like to share the insights i have. Getting a chip implanted in sweden costs about the same as in germany around one hundred twenty euros. The chips are made of bio glass so that the body doesnt reject them and theyre the size of a grain of rice held right youll feel it is one of the first who wants to give them a try. Very much nervous that im watching. Its not worth being given birth so im thinking my thoughts im not trying to be ones you only live once the lot of them i figure out tomorrow. Itll be a lot of this was it with five seconds later hello to you until it is chipped to hopefully i can open my door with it i have to call the Insurance Company i am there for the people delivering the door and see if i can open that with. A large number of people who get chips implanted dont know exactly what to do with a Company Representative explains how they can save passwords for their. Business cards on the chips and transmit them to a smartphone with a wave of the hand in theory the data could easily get into the wrong hands still many believe that a good chunk of the population will soon have implants to oversell whether five years. Earlier doctors are really out of guard with technology and it may be upcoming generation its all theyre all born with an i pad and i falter in the surfing big i mean my son is six years old. Is due in june or programming and if i go kindergarten to the. Stockholms Public Transport Company is even considering letting passengers pay for their tickets with implanted chips. Can a young adult who just received her first chip thinks thats a great idea. I lose my things all the time i lose my passport i lose my am bus card my bus my card to the gym if everything to be on face that would be amazing and i hope i hope that will come during the six months but maybe i shouldnt be too optimistic. But i guess i will be have be more free. Elsewhere in stockholm chips are already commonplace the epicenter is a large modern Office Complex in the Central Business district there are dozens of startups here. As a matter of course workers open the doors with chip implants. It was hunted idea he was host of the implantation party and hes the buildings innovative spirit. I want to question the status quo i mean yes weve had peace in our pockets all our lives right were used to it but someone has to say we dont need it someone needs to se