Implantable Devices Quotes

I am now obsessed with the technology of the body. I think it's the most technologically literate thing that we have.

Whether you need technology in your body for medical reasons, or just want it to augment your senses or for experimentation, there are numerous fronts that open-source advocates are working on to make implantable technology safer, cheaper, and available to everyone.

The phone is gonna disappear. Maybe it will be a bracelet. After the bracelet it will be a blood cell sized device that maybe gets installed. We already have people with Parkinson's that have chips installed in their brain to control their tremors. We already see people have pacemakers to help their heartbeats. I mean we're already putting these technologies into our bodies. It is only going to deepen.

Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body.

Technologies first equipped the territorial body with bridges, aqueducts, railways, highways, airports, etc. Now that the most powerful technologies are becoming tiny - microtechnologies, all technologies can invade the body. These micro-machines will feed the body. Research is being conducted in order to create additional memory for instance.

We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.

When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.

The dissemination of advanced implantable technology will likely be just as ruthlessly democratic as the ailments it is destined to treat. Meaning that, someday soon, we may have a new class of very smart, very fast people - yesterday's disabled and elderly.

For the time being, technologies are colonizing our body through implants. We started with human implants, but research leads us to microtechnological implants.