Cyborg America: inside the strange new world of basement body hackers
Ben Popper:
“Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been telling people that I want to be a robot,” said [Tim] Cannon. “These days, that doesn’t seem so impossible anymore.” The pair call themselves grinders — homebrew biohackers obsessed with the idea of human enhancement — who are looking for new ways to put machines into their bodies. They are joined by hundreds of aspiring biohackers who populate the movement’s online forums and a growing number, now several dozen, who have gotten the magnetic implants in real life.
We live in an interesting time.