As already mentioned in a previous post, cyborgs are not too far away as some may think.
As more and more people use smartphones and other portable electric devices several people dared to a step further. "Biohackers" or biohacking activists search to improve themselves by implanting machines, computerchips or even magnets under their skin. Shawn Sarver, an almost celebrity in the biohacking scene was one of the first to get a magnet implanted in his fingertips so that he could feel electromagnetic fields. As one of the leading biohackers he explains that the goal of this group is to make the human being evolve faster than nature would.
Personally, I find this to be a very interesting thought, as evolution takes ages to significantly change certain properties. Moreover, with the trend over the last couple of hundreds of years, more and more people survive, and the survival of the fittest is no longer true. Thus, humans will evolve even slower than they already did. Humans no longer have the same immune system people had 50, 100, or even 1000 years ago.
The modern medicine and the careless use of antibiotics for any little disease or little complaint destroys the body's defenses to a point, where the body can no longer fight on its own against nature.
But this is already too far away from my topic.
Biohackers just do what years, centuries or millennia of evolution could have done. They add new senses to their bodies by implanting, as said before, computer chips or magnets under their skin.
Implanting a magnet under the skin in one or more fingertips is under biohackers already more or less common. The feeling of having another sense appeals to many activists.
And to be honest: wouldn't it be awesome to feel the electromagnetic shape of an object?
It is even hard to imagine, and after seeing footage of how the magnets or circuit boards are implanted I am pretty sure I will not do it.
However, having a sixth sense must be really awesome.
More informations coming up in the following days.
As always,
Thanks for reading!
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