1 00:00:03,530 --> 00:00:04,880 Never was the relationship 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:08,460 between humans and technology so close. 3 00:00:08,460 --> 00:00:11,910 But for cyborgs, it's not close enough. 4 00:00:11,910 --> 00:00:14,870 They merge their bodies with technology. 5 00:00:15,940 --> 00:00:18,980 I'm a cyborg, so I've created a new sense 6 00:00:18,980 --> 00:00:22,230 and a new organ and I've designed my perception of reality. 7 00:00:22,230 --> 00:00:23,600 I have an implant here 8 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:27,040 and I use my implants on a daily basis. 9 00:00:28,420 --> 00:00:30,670 Without it being medically necessary, 10 00:00:30,670 --> 00:00:33,760 cyborgs inject magnets into their fingers, 11 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:35,960 plant chips under their skin. 12 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,260 They implant technology. 13 00:00:39,750 --> 00:00:41,870 We're not simply loonies with crazy ideas, 14 00:00:41,870 --> 00:00:44,270 we're people who are trying to shape the future. 15 00:00:45,900 --> 00:00:48,880 Now we do like 100 a month maybe. 16 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,360 So the exponential growth is catching on, 17 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:56,520 so as soon as there's 100,000 users, 18 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:59,590 we're going to have 200K, 400K, 800K, 19 00:00:59,590 --> 00:01:01,700 2 million, 8 million, 16 million. 20 00:01:02,910 --> 00:01:04,520 Will it be normal in the future 21 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:08,510 to upgrade our bodies or are we already there? 22 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:17,170 If your mobile phone is running out of battery, 23 00:01:17,170 --> 00:01:19,070 many people say "I'm running out of battery." 24 00:01:19,070 --> 00:01:22,320 This is a clear sign of using or talking about technology 25 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:25,810 in first person as if you are already technology. 26 00:01:25,810 --> 00:01:27,490 Yeah, if someone offers me 27 00:01:27,490 --> 00:01:32,150 to get a new hand instead of this one but just stronger 28 00:01:32,150 --> 00:01:35,790 and better and more efficient and more precise, 29 00:01:35,790 --> 00:01:38,180 then I would be absolutely willing to do this. 30 00:01:41,980 --> 00:01:43,590 When people say I'm a cyborg 31 00:01:43,590 --> 00:01:46,390 and that implies that I can do things that you can't do, 32 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,870 it's the opposite of removing boundaries. 33 00:01:50,870 --> 00:01:52,750 It's creating new boundaries. 34 00:02:12,090 --> 00:02:14,540 Neil Harbisson is, as he says, 35 00:02:14,540 --> 00:02:18,120 the world's first officially recognized cyborg. 36 00:02:18,990 --> 00:02:21,850 The composer has been color blind since birth. 37 00:02:21,850 --> 00:02:23,830 He sees the world in shades of gray. 38 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,330 So each color has its own light frequency 39 00:02:30,330 --> 00:02:32,150 which corresponds to a sound frequency 40 00:02:32,150 --> 00:02:33,210 and so the antenna allows me 41 00:02:33,210 --> 00:02:35,450 to hear the sound of each color. 42 00:02:35,450 --> 00:02:37,680 This is F, this is A. 43 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:40,590 So each color has its own note, 44 00:02:40,590 --> 00:02:43,530 so when I put colors on a piece of paper, 45 00:02:43,530 --> 00:02:45,920 to me it's like putting music on paper. 46 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:49,290 In 2004, 47 00:02:49,290 --> 00:02:52,170 Neil Harbisson had the antenna implanted 48 00:02:52,170 --> 00:02:54,140 by an anonymous surgeon. 49 00:02:54,140 --> 00:02:57,440 It contains a sensor that recognizes color frequencies 50 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:00,620 and transmits them to a chip in the back of his head. 51 00:03:00,620 --> 00:03:03,470 This chip turns them into audio signals. 52 00:03:08,090 --> 00:03:12,590 So it's F, G, F, G, F, A. 53 00:03:12,590 --> 00:03:16,060 I'm just improvising, it's a bit like jazz now, 54 00:03:16,060 --> 00:03:18,080 just playing different notes. 55 00:03:22,860 --> 00:03:23,700 At the beginning, 56 00:03:23,700 --> 00:03:25,920 it was overwhelming hearing so many colors. 57 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:27,780 I need some time of adaptation. 58 00:03:27,780 --> 00:03:30,110 The brain will need to adapt to the new input 59 00:03:30,110 --> 00:03:33,930 until it becomes like any other sense or preexisting sense. 60 00:03:33,930 --> 00:03:36,070 And then when it becomes normal, 61 00:03:36,070 --> 00:03:38,090 you feel the need to extend it again. 62 00:03:38,090 --> 00:03:40,450 So that's exactly is what happened to me, 63 00:03:40,450 --> 00:03:43,540 that when I was able to hear all the colors visual, 64 00:03:43,540 --> 00:03:46,260 I felt it was a repetition all the time, 65 00:03:46,260 --> 00:03:49,330 so that's why I added infrareds and ultraviolets. 66 00:03:49,330 --> 00:03:52,850 In this way, Harbisson can also hear sun rays, 67 00:03:52,850 --> 00:03:57,850 motion detectors, remote controls, and antitheft devices. 68 00:03:58,330 --> 00:04:01,590 But is that desirable 24 hours a day? 69 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:07,110 So the antenna is always on, there's no switch. 70 00:04:07,110 --> 00:04:09,190 At night, when I turn off the lights, 71 00:04:09,190 --> 00:04:11,070 there's usually no color so there's silence 72 00:04:11,070 --> 00:04:14,640 but the internet is on so people can still send colors 73 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:16,190 to my head while I'm asleep. 74 00:04:16,190 --> 00:04:20,020 So if this happens, they can color my dreams. 75 00:04:21,190 --> 00:04:22,600 It's a strange choice 76 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,000 which often creates problems. 77 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,030 Harbisson fought with the British authorities 78 00:04:27,030 --> 00:04:28,750 for a long time before he was allowed 79 00:04:28,750 --> 00:04:31,130 to include the antenna in his passport. 80 00:04:36,770 --> 00:04:37,620 Well, the biggest struggle 81 00:04:37,620 --> 00:04:40,190 of being a cyborg is society. 82 00:04:40,190 --> 00:04:44,180 It's people who are not tolerant to one's decision. 83 00:04:44,180 --> 00:04:45,010 It's hard. 84 00:04:45,010 --> 00:04:47,240 Sometimes it is also people who really think 85 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,860 that we are against nature and against humans 86 00:04:50,860 --> 00:04:52,100 and against God. 87 00:04:53,630 --> 00:04:56,170 But Harbisson also has allies, 88 00:04:56,170 --> 00:04:57,750 some of them in Germany. 89 00:04:59,500 --> 00:05:02,590 In Berlin, there is a community of people 90 00:05:02,590 --> 00:05:07,590 that are very enthusiastic about cyborgism. 91 00:05:09,790 --> 00:05:11,510 Maybe not so artistically, 92 00:05:11,510 --> 00:05:14,380 but in Berlin, it's more of a social thing. 93 00:05:17,170 --> 00:05:18,700 Cyborgs view themselves 94 00:05:18,700 --> 00:05:21,110 as forerunners of a growing movement. 95 00:05:26,370 --> 00:05:30,580 Oliver Waack-Jurgensen belongs to the Berlin Cyborg Society. 96 00:05:32,340 --> 00:05:34,130 Cyborgs need vitamins too. 97 00:05:36,780 --> 00:05:38,630 Waack-Jurgensen is a chocolate maker 98 00:05:38,630 --> 00:05:40,410 and a member of the Pirate party 99 00:05:40,410 --> 00:05:44,050 and he intends to turn himself into a cyborg. 100 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:54,210 It takes a bit of practice. 101 00:05:54,210 --> 00:05:57,080 It's easier to make this bread than most people think. 102 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:58,640 We've been making most of our own bread 103 00:05:58,640 --> 00:05:59,960 for four or five years. 104 00:06:02,490 --> 00:06:04,650 Waack-Jurgensen lives together with his partner 105 00:06:04,650 --> 00:06:06,230 and their children. 106 00:06:06,230 --> 00:06:09,050 The past few years have been hard. 107 00:06:09,050 --> 00:06:11,320 Waack-Jurgensen suffers from arthritis. 108 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:15,640 He already has two artificial knees and an artificial hip. 109 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:18,160 And although he's just managing to walk again, 110 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,430 it will soon be time for another hip. 111 00:06:20,430 --> 00:06:22,450 He wants to upgrade this one. 112 00:06:32,770 --> 00:06:34,260 All the things you can do with a hip like that. 113 00:06:34,260 --> 00:06:36,260 Of course biomonitoring is no problem. 114 00:06:36,260 --> 00:06:38,750 The bloodstream and the neutral stimuli provide 115 00:06:38,750 --> 00:06:39,720 a lot of information. 116 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:41,480 And then of course the little gimmicks 117 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:44,410 like this mobile wifi router. 118 00:06:44,410 --> 00:06:45,900 Or I have a smartphone in my pocket 119 00:06:45,900 --> 00:06:49,090 next to the artificial hip and it gets charged when I move 120 00:06:49,090 --> 00:06:50,540 or from the heat of my blood. 121 00:06:55,090 --> 00:06:56,950 Just don't get something healthy removed 122 00:06:56,950 --> 00:06:58,190 to get something better. 123 00:06:58,190 --> 00:06:59,340 No, of course not. 124 00:06:59,340 --> 00:07:01,040 Nothing's as good as the original. 125 00:07:02,420 --> 00:07:03,310 Would you think it cool 126 00:07:03,310 --> 00:07:05,310 if Ollie had a wifi router in his hip? 127 00:07:07,260 --> 00:07:10,680 A free radio router with wifi wherever I happen to be, cool. 128 00:07:12,470 --> 00:07:14,690 Then you wouldn't be the rain god, you'd be the wifi god, 129 00:07:14,690 --> 00:07:15,890 but you're that already. 130 00:07:17,670 --> 00:07:19,570 I don't know, nobody would believe me. 131 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:23,190 How do people get such ideas? 132 00:07:27,620 --> 00:07:30,330 For as long as I've known him, he's wanted like a little boy 133 00:07:30,330 --> 00:07:33,450 to be connected to the internet like in science fiction. 134 00:07:33,450 --> 00:07:35,900 He's had this idea ever since I've known him. 135 00:07:37,190 --> 00:07:40,010 Anything that's possible that would upgrade his body, 136 00:07:40,010 --> 00:07:41,500 he would do immediately. 137 00:07:46,730 --> 00:07:48,790 When Oliver Waack-Jurgensen received 138 00:07:48,790 --> 00:07:50,840 his three artificial joints, 139 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:55,030 he associated the operations with pain and feeling old. 140 00:07:55,030 --> 00:07:57,840 It would be different if they built in a wireless charger 141 00:07:57,840 --> 00:07:59,470 for his smartphone, he says. 142 00:08:04,310 --> 00:08:08,010 That would be cool, a form of avant-garde blazing a trail. 143 00:08:09,580 --> 00:08:11,200 It would take a lot of pressure off me. 144 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:13,820 Of course, on the one hand, this is the fourth time, 145 00:08:13,820 --> 00:08:15,960 so I know what to expect. 146 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:17,850 But if they were going to build in some gimmick, 147 00:08:17,850 --> 00:08:19,050 it would make it easier. 148 00:08:20,940 --> 00:08:23,540 But German law does not permit implants 149 00:08:23,540 --> 00:08:26,100 with supplementary functions, 150 00:08:26,100 --> 00:08:28,440 so Waack-Jurgensen has been in direct contact 151 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,050 with manufacturers for months. 152 00:08:33,290 --> 00:08:35,790 In Germany, an implant is just an implant, 153 00:08:35,790 --> 00:08:37,070 you don't play with it. 154 00:08:37,070 --> 00:08:38,230 That's the current view. 155 00:08:38,230 --> 00:08:40,230 And of course, it has to be correct. 156 00:08:40,230 --> 00:08:42,400 We want to reach the people who make these decisions 157 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:44,140 who can also say, wait a minute, 158 00:08:44,140 --> 00:08:46,280 here's a gap that needs to be filled. 159 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:48,000 You need to get your toe in the door 160 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,020 and if the manufacturers don't respond, others will. 161 00:08:55,420 --> 00:08:56,970 At some time in the future, 162 00:08:56,970 --> 00:08:59,970 will artificial spare parts be able to do more 163 00:08:59,970 --> 00:09:01,100 than the originals? 164 00:09:02,010 --> 00:09:05,180 This question obsesses Bertolt Meyer. 165 00:09:05,180 --> 00:09:07,840 He was born without the lower half of his left arm 166 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:10,270 and wears an artificial hand, 167 00:09:10,270 --> 00:09:12,760 probably the best that's currently available. 168 00:09:20,500 --> 00:09:23,020 Basically, the artificial hand can't do anything 169 00:09:23,020 --> 00:09:26,760 that my right hand can't do, with one exception. 170 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:31,420 I can twist the artificial one 360 degrees continuously, 171 00:09:31,420 --> 00:09:32,670 but that's not very practical. 172 00:09:32,670 --> 00:09:34,320 I always say it's my party trick. 173 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:40,890 But it's also very interesting theoretically 174 00:09:40,890 --> 00:09:43,930 because of course it shows that even an artificial limb, 175 00:09:43,930 --> 00:09:46,790 which in many ways is not as good as the original, 176 00:09:46,790 --> 00:09:50,580 can be better in other areas in very specific abilities. 177 00:09:55,650 --> 00:09:57,780 Bertolt Meyer is a social psychologist 178 00:09:57,780 --> 00:10:00,320 at the Technical University in Chemnitz. 179 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:03,450 He focuses on people who want artificial body parts 180 00:10:03,450 --> 00:10:05,480 even though they're perfectly healthy. 181 00:10:07,870 --> 00:10:10,850 I think it's a bit strange when people say, 182 00:10:10,850 --> 00:10:14,460 theoretically I'm ready to replace a healthy body part 183 00:10:14,460 --> 00:10:16,100 with an artificial one 184 00:10:16,100 --> 00:10:18,100 because it would make me somehow better. 185 00:10:21,940 --> 00:10:26,940 I think, well, frankly being 100% healthy is a privilege 186 00:10:27,540 --> 00:10:28,950 that I don't have. 187 00:10:30,350 --> 00:10:33,400 So I think perhaps you should be a bit more aware 188 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:36,300 of what a privilege that is that you enjoy. 189 00:10:39,690 --> 00:10:43,600 Humans are weak, vulnerable, and forgetful. 190 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:45,490 Technology is supposed to liberate them 191 00:10:45,490 --> 00:10:47,880 from nature's limitations. 192 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:50,150 But why take tools in your hands 193 00:10:50,150 --> 00:10:52,150 when you can carry them inside yourself? 194 00:10:55,510 --> 00:10:58,640 Is this the next logical step to upgrade humans? 195 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:01,310 To become stronger, faster, more perfect? 196 00:11:03,210 --> 00:11:06,300 Is this the end of human weakness 197 00:11:06,300 --> 00:11:09,040 or the beginning of the end of humanity? 198 00:11:17,460 --> 00:11:20,670 Patrick Paumen dreams of overcoming the limitations 199 00:11:20,670 --> 00:11:23,170 of his body with technology. 200 00:11:23,170 --> 00:11:24,840 As a small step in this direction, 201 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,700 he inserts micro implants into his body. 202 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:39,100 In December 2010 at the Chaos Communication Congress, 203 00:11:39,100 --> 00:11:41,530 Lepht Anonym gave a lecture 204 00:11:41,530 --> 00:11:43,860 entitled "Cybernetics for the Masses." 205 00:11:44,950 --> 00:11:47,700 He explained how you can perform your own implantations 206 00:11:47,700 --> 00:11:48,920 at very little cost. 207 00:11:50,100 --> 00:11:53,680 The lecture mentioned magnet implants and RFID implants. 208 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,710 I became very curious about how magnetic 209 00:11:57,710 --> 00:12:00,940 and electromagnetic fields would feel. 210 00:12:00,940 --> 00:12:02,410 Then I decided to do it. 211 00:12:07,490 --> 00:12:11,380 Magnet implants don't have much use at the present time. 212 00:12:11,380 --> 00:12:14,260 They vibrate in Patrick Paumen's hand, for instance, 213 00:12:14,260 --> 00:12:16,720 when he approaches an electric cable. 214 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:18,780 But a car manufacturer is researching 215 00:12:18,780 --> 00:12:20,510 whether drivers could be sent signals 216 00:12:20,510 --> 00:12:22,870 via magnetic vibrations, for instance, 217 00:12:22,870 --> 00:12:25,110 in a dangerous situation. 218 00:12:25,110 --> 00:12:28,030 Humans react to tactile feelings more quickly 219 00:12:28,030 --> 00:12:29,660 than to any other sense data. 220 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:39,780 Patrick Paumen lives in Heerlen on the German-Dutch border. 221 00:12:39,780 --> 00:12:43,520 He now has five magnets and six chips in his body. 222 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:45,530 Each chip has its own function. 223 00:12:50,870 --> 00:12:53,410 I have the advantage that I can never lose my keys 224 00:12:53,410 --> 00:12:55,200 or have them stolen from me. 225 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:56,640 I can never lock myself out. 226 00:13:00,340 --> 00:13:01,800 It makes life easier. 227 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:03,340 When my hands are full, I don't have to dig 228 00:13:03,340 --> 00:13:05,750 into my trouser pockets to find my keys 229 00:13:05,750 --> 00:13:07,850 and look which key do I need for the door. 230 00:13:09,270 --> 00:13:13,000 With another chip, Paumen can log on to his computer. 231 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:16,640 The chips operate with a technology known as RFID, 232 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:19,390 Radio Frequency Identification. 233 00:13:19,390 --> 00:13:22,320 It allows data to be transmitted over a short distance 234 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:23,530 without a battery. 235 00:13:25,180 --> 00:13:27,950 Paumen has already ordered another chip. 236 00:13:27,950 --> 00:13:29,670 It apparently has its own apps, 237 00:13:29,670 --> 00:13:33,640 by means of which messages can be encoded and payments made. 238 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:37,720 So far, Paumen only knows the chip from the internet. 239 00:13:41,010 --> 00:13:43,140 Some people have had the idea of making glasses, 240 00:13:43,140 --> 00:13:46,010 lasering eyes, developing hearing implants. 241 00:13:46,010 --> 00:13:47,000 We keep developing. 242 00:13:51,110 --> 00:13:53,430 The aim is to make life simpler. 243 00:13:53,430 --> 00:13:55,110 I only see advantages. 244 00:13:59,570 --> 00:14:02,300 Cyborgs are viewed as eccentrics, 245 00:14:02,300 --> 00:14:04,950 but the industry thinks this is going to change. 246 00:14:04,950 --> 00:14:06,610 Neil Harbisson is often invited 247 00:14:06,610 --> 00:14:08,790 to talk to telecommunications companies. 248 00:14:10,270 --> 00:14:12,430 A sensational presentation here on the stage, 249 00:14:12,430 --> 00:14:14,680 I'm delighted that he's here, Neil Harbisson. 250 00:14:25,790 --> 00:14:27,480 So what I like doing is sound portraits, 251 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:29,610 where instead of drawing someone's face, 252 00:14:29,610 --> 00:14:30,570 I get close to someone's face 253 00:14:30,570 --> 00:14:32,110 and I write down the sound of the eyes, 254 00:14:32,110 --> 00:14:33,290 the lips, the skin, and the hair. 255 00:14:33,290 --> 00:14:35,180 The first one I did was of Prince Charles. 256 00:14:35,180 --> 00:14:37,090 I asked him if I could listen to his face 257 00:14:37,090 --> 00:14:40,590 and this was his reaction when i asked him. 258 00:14:40,590 --> 00:14:41,870 Each person sounds different. 259 00:14:41,870 --> 00:14:44,180 Judi Dench has silent hair, for example. 260 00:14:45,110 --> 00:14:46,740 Al Gore has different nodes in his eyes, 261 00:14:46,740 --> 00:14:48,420 different shades of turquoise. 262 00:14:49,420 --> 00:14:51,470 Steve Reich has a melody in his eyes 263 00:14:51,470 --> 00:14:54,050 because he has like a small pattern. 264 00:14:54,050 --> 00:14:56,030 Moby has one note less, he has no hair, 265 00:14:56,030 --> 00:14:58,630 so he has less sounds. 266 00:14:58,630 --> 00:15:01,610 Woody Allen, like a soft painting, very unsaturated. 267 00:15:03,210 --> 00:15:04,950 Neil Harbisson makes a good living 268 00:15:04,950 --> 00:15:08,780 from his lectures, his cyborg existence. 269 00:15:08,780 --> 00:15:11,520 Is it just clever self promotion 270 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:13,850 or is he really a social pioneer? 271 00:15:18,170 --> 00:15:20,820 In 20, 30 years, I think it will be strange 272 00:15:20,820 --> 00:15:24,160 not to have an implant of some sort, 273 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:26,110 in the same way that now it's very common 274 00:15:26,110 --> 00:15:30,160 to see people with tattoos and whereas maybe 50 years ago, 275 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:31,230 it would be really strange. 276 00:15:31,230 --> 00:15:33,980 Now it's very common to modify our skin. 277 00:15:33,980 --> 00:15:36,330 It will soon be very common to modify our mind. 278 00:15:46,130 --> 00:15:47,920 But a practical problem for cyborgs is 279 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:50,340 the implantation itself. 280 00:15:50,340 --> 00:15:54,560 Doctors are not permitted to perform non-medical operations, 281 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,840 so Hika Kierkenupp is kept busy. 282 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:01,410 The piercer turns humans into cyborgs. 283 00:16:01,410 --> 00:16:04,330 Today, it's Lucia Dibla's turn. 284 00:16:04,330 --> 00:16:07,250 She wants to have a magnet implanted in her hand. 285 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:14,850 Partly curiosity but mainly, in fact, 286 00:16:14,850 --> 00:16:16,240 for professional reasons. 287 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:20,420 I'm a dressmaker and I don't like pincushions. 288 00:16:22,220 --> 00:16:25,350 So a small magnet here on my hand will be very useful. 289 00:16:27,670 --> 00:16:32,350 Cutting your skin for such trifling reasons is surprising 290 00:16:32,350 --> 00:16:34,600 but the piercer, Hika Kierkenupp, 291 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,300 hasn't taken the Hippocratic Oath and can help. 292 00:16:41,220 --> 00:16:42,430 It's a gray area. 293 00:16:42,430 --> 00:16:44,790 It's okay as long as the patient signs a contract 294 00:16:44,790 --> 00:16:46,310 that she bears all the risks. 295 00:16:48,430 --> 00:16:51,360 And implanting magnets carries considerable risks. 296 00:16:53,220 --> 00:16:54,630 I've sometimes seen magnets 297 00:16:54,630 --> 00:16:57,760 from less reliable firms rust in the body. 298 00:16:58,870 --> 00:17:03,870 They rusted out or they led to allergic reactions. 299 00:17:07,250 --> 00:17:08,350 There's no way of knowing 300 00:17:08,350 --> 00:17:10,520 how the body will react to magnets. 301 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:12,160 It can reject them. 302 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:13,640 Nerves can be damaged. 303 00:17:32,360 --> 00:17:35,500 The procedure costs roughly 150 euros 304 00:17:35,500 --> 00:17:37,110 and takes about 10 minutes. 305 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:44,110 It feels like a pulling sensation, it's pretty strong. 306 00:17:47,470 --> 00:17:50,010 Most people would never dream of implanting magnets 307 00:17:50,010 --> 00:17:52,080 or chips in their bodies, 308 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:54,380 but Kierkenupp believes that will change. 309 00:18:00,910 --> 00:18:02,510 There are now chips in the beta phase 310 00:18:02,510 --> 00:18:04,170 that are more functional. 311 00:18:04,170 --> 00:18:07,980 And I can see that in two, five, maybe 10 years, 312 00:18:07,980 --> 00:18:10,600 much more useful implants will be invented. 313 00:18:16,010 --> 00:18:20,780 Implants like Circadia, which registers heart frequency 314 00:18:20,780 --> 00:18:23,940 and other physical data, but on a smaller scale. 315 00:18:26,810 --> 00:18:29,230 Circadia is as big as a smartphone. 316 00:18:29,230 --> 00:18:32,980 An American had it implanted in his arm in 2013. 317 00:18:35,540 --> 00:18:37,770 Hey, everybody, my name is Tim Cannon. 318 00:18:37,770 --> 00:18:39,790 I just became the first man 319 00:18:39,790 --> 00:18:41,850 to implant a device in my body 320 00:18:41,850 --> 00:18:45,380 that was solely for the purpose of enhancing myself. 321 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:48,410 Circadia can continuously measure 322 00:18:48,410 --> 00:18:51,410 body temperature, pulse, and blood levels, 323 00:18:51,410 --> 00:18:53,380 and transmit the data to a smartphone. 324 00:18:54,570 --> 00:18:57,410 Patrick Paumen is also interested in this implant. 325 00:19:02,740 --> 00:19:04,110 I've met Tim. 326 00:19:04,110 --> 00:19:06,640 He didn't have the implant any longer. 327 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:09,040 From what I see on the internet, it's quite big. 328 00:19:10,690 --> 00:19:13,980 It looks creepy and was dangerous. 329 00:19:13,980 --> 00:19:16,720 The batteries in Circadia may have leaked. 330 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:20,140 That's why Tim Cannon had it removed after three months. 331 00:19:20,140 --> 00:19:22,940 But he wanted to show what's possible. 332 00:19:22,940 --> 00:19:25,840 Similar implants are available on a smaller scale. 333 00:19:30,170 --> 00:19:31,880 I have an implant in my lower arm 334 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:33,640 which measures my body temperature. 335 00:19:34,610 --> 00:19:36,680 There's a temperature sensor inside. 336 00:19:42,530 --> 00:19:45,070 And I have an RFID device that reads the chip. 337 00:19:46,100 --> 00:19:47,510 It displays the serial number 338 00:19:47,510 --> 00:19:49,340 and the temperature in my lower arm. 339 00:19:55,770 --> 00:19:58,630 Unlike thermometers or activity trackers, 340 00:19:58,630 --> 00:20:01,500 these chips gather the data continuously 341 00:20:01,500 --> 00:20:04,040 without you having to think about them. 342 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:07,770 Eventually, nanorobots could circulate in our bloodstream 343 00:20:07,770 --> 00:20:08,980 and analyze everything. 344 00:20:08,980 --> 00:20:11,730 What's good for us, when are we stressed? 345 00:20:11,730 --> 00:20:13,850 We could continuously monitor our health 346 00:20:13,850 --> 00:20:15,990 and detect diseases before they develop. 347 00:20:16,970 --> 00:20:18,710 But do we want that? 348 00:20:18,710 --> 00:20:21,440 Have total surveillance of our bodies? 349 00:20:30,660 --> 00:20:33,880 Patrick Paumen is still waiting for the new chip he ordered. 350 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:35,740 It will enable him to encode data. 351 00:20:35,740 --> 00:20:38,520 He now wants to further develop the chips himself. 352 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:39,990 He goes to Hackspace, 353 00:20:39,990 --> 00:20:42,960 a meeting point for technology freaks in Heerlen. 354 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:44,580 Paumen founded it himself. 355 00:20:54,500 --> 00:20:57,510 Even at the drinks machine, he only has to scan his chip 356 00:20:57,510 --> 00:20:58,860 and it transmits his data. 357 00:21:06,850 --> 00:21:09,720 Paumen and his friends want to get more and more 358 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:11,040 out of each device. 359 00:21:15,730 --> 00:21:19,080 I want to lock and unlock my car without using a key. 360 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:21,630 If you accidentally feed current into this white wire, 361 00:21:21,630 --> 00:21:22,650 you break the device. 362 00:21:22,650 --> 00:21:23,840 This could go wrong. 363 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:31,410 Paumen has to change the switch of his central lock system 364 00:21:31,410 --> 00:21:33,390 so it can read his chip. 365 00:21:33,390 --> 00:21:36,130 He tinkers with the device for five hours. 366 00:21:43,570 --> 00:21:44,410 It's switching now. 367 00:21:45,910 --> 00:21:47,750 But the engine's not working. 368 00:22:03,700 --> 00:22:05,490 The members of Hackerspace believe 369 00:22:05,490 --> 00:22:08,260 that they are helping to shape the future. 370 00:22:08,260 --> 00:22:11,060 But making even a little progress costs a lot of effort. 371 00:22:18,730 --> 00:22:21,130 A few hours later, Paumen succeeds. 372 00:22:21,130 --> 00:22:24,170 The central locking system can now read his chip. 373 00:22:24,170 --> 00:22:26,240 Now it has to be installed in the car. 374 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:41,230 It's locked. 375 00:22:49,250 --> 00:22:51,300 Great, now I can throw away the keys. 376 00:22:53,410 --> 00:22:56,840 Once again, Paumen has improved his life a little. 377 00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:57,990 Now he just has to wait 378 00:22:57,990 --> 00:22:59,990 for the chip he ordered from the USA. 379 00:23:05,490 --> 00:23:08,420 Oliver Waack-Jurgensen in Berlin is fighting 380 00:23:08,420 --> 00:23:10,260 for his cyborg hip. 381 00:23:10,260 --> 00:23:12,700 So far, the implant manufacturers have given him 382 00:23:12,700 --> 00:23:14,390 the cold shoulder. 383 00:23:14,390 --> 00:23:17,290 He's decided to seek the support of his orthopedist, 384 00:23:17,290 --> 00:23:18,550 Dr. Peterhansel. 385 00:23:24,010 --> 00:23:25,820 Would he agree to implant a hip 386 00:23:25,820 --> 00:23:29,110 with which Waack-Jurgensen could charge his mobile 387 00:23:29,110 --> 00:23:31,860 with the energy produced by his movements 388 00:23:31,860 --> 00:23:34,420 or one containing a mobile wifi router? 389 00:23:42,670 --> 00:23:45,960 Okay, so in the head or in the acetabulum, 390 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,060 there would be space for a little gimmick. 391 00:23:49,890 --> 00:23:51,960 Certainly, it could easily be built 392 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:53,430 into an artificial joint. 393 00:23:53,430 --> 00:23:55,920 You just have to watch out for the radiation exposure. 394 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,570 Of course, that's an ethical issue, right? 395 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:04,670 Laws and ethics play a role, 396 00:24:04,670 --> 00:24:06,760 but we're not just playing around. 397 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:08,780 If somebody is going to have an operation like this, 398 00:24:08,780 --> 00:24:11,580 they can think about whether it could be upgraded a bit. 399 00:24:13,490 --> 00:24:14,330 Of course. 400 00:24:15,330 --> 00:24:17,710 The radiation exposure could become a problem 401 00:24:17,710 --> 00:24:19,380 because the radiation has to pass 402 00:24:19,380 --> 00:24:21,770 through all the skin layers. 403 00:24:21,770 --> 00:24:24,770 There's no empirical evidence available. 404 00:24:24,770 --> 00:24:28,300 But Dr. Peterhansel believes in the future of such implants. 405 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:32,600 I'm very open to ideas like this. 406 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:33,810 I'd always be in favor, 407 00:24:33,810 --> 00:24:36,570 certainly from the medical point of view, 408 00:24:36,570 --> 00:24:39,410 but also when it's really useful to the patient. 409 00:24:43,610 --> 00:24:47,330 Most physicians are skeptical about cyborg ideas. 410 00:24:47,330 --> 00:24:49,900 It's the first time Waack-Jurgensen has received support 411 00:24:49,900 --> 00:24:50,830 from a doctor. 412 00:24:52,940 --> 00:24:54,730 He has contacts among the manufacturers 413 00:24:54,730 --> 00:24:56,450 and he could help us convince them 414 00:24:56,450 --> 00:24:58,550 that it wouldn't be just a party game 415 00:24:58,550 --> 00:25:00,000 but something for the future. 416 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,270 But where does the compulsion come from 417 00:25:07,270 --> 00:25:08,940 to do such a radical thing? 418 00:25:12,930 --> 00:25:15,290 Equipping your body with technology is a way 419 00:25:15,290 --> 00:25:18,090 of making it more efficient and appearing more efficient 420 00:25:19,030 --> 00:25:21,530 and perhaps of increasing your own value a bit. 421 00:25:23,550 --> 00:25:24,950 Because of my disability, 422 00:25:24,950 --> 00:25:28,030 my self-esteem is certainly not the best. 423 00:25:28,030 --> 00:25:31,430 And I know the feeling that a bit of complicated technology 424 00:25:31,430 --> 00:25:33,670 can increase your sense of self-worth. 425 00:25:40,940 --> 00:25:44,780 Humans become designers of their own bodies. 426 00:25:44,780 --> 00:25:47,020 When everybody immediately knows everything 427 00:25:47,020 --> 00:25:48,870 about everyone else, 428 00:25:48,870 --> 00:25:52,270 when little robots inside us watch over our blood, 429 00:25:52,270 --> 00:25:53,640 and when there's no difference anymore 430 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:58,640 between online and offline, a new human era will start. 431 00:25:59,460 --> 00:26:02,420 Will it be like when humans first invented tools 432 00:26:02,420 --> 00:26:04,720 and life became easier, 433 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,260 or will it be a competition for the best implant? 434 00:26:08,260 --> 00:26:10,490 What will happen if some people refuse to have them? 435 00:26:10,490 --> 00:26:14,360 Will it produce a division, like between rich and poor, 436 00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:16,530 between upper and lower class? 437 00:26:22,070 --> 00:26:25,840 In Sweden, there's nothing unusual about being a cyborg. 438 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:27,780 A Stockholm media enterprise is holding 439 00:26:27,780 --> 00:26:30,030 an implantation party. 440 00:26:30,030 --> 00:26:32,590 It has invited the artistic crowd. 441 00:26:32,590 --> 00:26:35,140 They can upgrade their bodies at the party. 442 00:26:37,210 --> 00:26:40,280 It was Hannes Sjoblad's idea. 443 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,290 He is the founder of a biohacker group. 444 00:26:43,290 --> 00:26:45,640 Biohackers refuse to accept biology 445 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,690 and the limitations of nature. 446 00:26:47,690 --> 00:26:51,330 They want to upgrade their bodies with technology. 447 00:26:51,330 --> 00:26:55,050 Today, Sjoblad is promoting RFID chips, 448 00:26:55,050 --> 00:26:57,800 the same chips that Patrick Paumen carries in his body. 449 00:27:06,570 --> 00:27:07,950 I mean, it works like this. 450 00:27:07,950 --> 00:27:09,760 We humans, we are skeptical 451 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,620 about things we don't really understand, right? 452 00:27:12,620 --> 00:27:14,710 But if you explain how it works, 453 00:27:14,710 --> 00:27:16,450 what are the good things, what are the bad things, 454 00:27:16,450 --> 00:27:17,960 what are the dangers, 455 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,640 then most people are simply comfortable with it. 456 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,480 So this is what I try to do. 457 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,430 I'm not in the business of selling implants, 458 00:27:24,430 --> 00:27:26,620 I just like to share the insights I have. 459 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,350 Getting a chip implanted in Sweden costs 460 00:27:30,350 --> 00:27:34,810 exactly the same as in Germany, about 120 euros. 461 00:27:34,810 --> 00:27:36,790 The chips are made of bioglass 462 00:27:36,790 --> 00:27:39,380 so that the body doesn't reject them. 463 00:27:39,380 --> 00:27:41,380 And they're the size of a grain of rice. 464 00:27:42,390 --> 00:27:44,310 Helena (indistinct) is one of the first 465 00:27:44,310 --> 00:27:45,610 who wants to try them out. 466 00:27:47,210 --> 00:27:49,620 I am not nervous at all actually. 467 00:27:49,620 --> 00:27:50,880 It's not worse than giving birth, 468 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,790 so I'm sticking to my thought on that. 469 00:27:53,790 --> 00:27:56,040 Try everything once, you only live once. 470 00:27:58,210 --> 00:27:59,660 I might take it out tomorrow. 471 00:28:01,450 --> 00:28:02,300 You'll love it. 472 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,070 Okay. 473 00:28:05,070 --> 00:28:06,940 Five seconds later, 474 00:28:06,940 --> 00:28:08,610 Helena (indistinct) is chipped. 475 00:28:10,140 --> 00:28:11,950 Hopefully I can open my door with it. 476 00:28:11,950 --> 00:28:14,590 I have to call the insurance company 477 00:28:14,590 --> 00:28:17,190 and the people delivering the door 478 00:28:17,190 --> 00:28:19,200 and see if I can open that with it. 479 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:20,650 An extraordinary number of people 480 00:28:20,650 --> 00:28:23,450 who get chips implanted don't know what exactly 481 00:28:23,450 --> 00:28:25,020 to do with them. 482 00:28:25,020 --> 00:28:26,730 A company representative explains 483 00:28:26,730 --> 00:28:28,400 how they can save passwords 484 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,380 or their business cards on the chips 485 00:28:30,380 --> 00:28:33,630 and transmit them to a smartphone with a wave of the hand. 486 00:28:37,910 --> 00:28:39,830 Theoretically, the data could easily get 487 00:28:39,830 --> 00:28:41,290 into the wrong hands. 488 00:28:44,980 --> 00:28:45,930 No doubts at all. 489 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:48,250 I think it's great. 490 00:28:48,250 --> 00:28:50,190 I think it's fun thing, cool thing. 491 00:28:51,570 --> 00:28:54,200 And I think it's only the beginning of this. 492 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:57,450 I think it will be an explosion going forward. 493 00:28:57,450 --> 00:28:58,650 10% within five years. 494 00:29:01,490 --> 00:29:02,320 Sweden? 495 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,970 Yeah, we're early adapters. 496 00:29:04,970 --> 00:29:07,810 We're really avant-garde with technology. 497 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,640 I mean, the upcoming generation is 498 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:14,620 they're all born with an iPad or an iPhone or the Samsung. 499 00:29:15,550 --> 00:29:17,650 I mean, my son is six years old. 500 00:29:19,100 --> 00:29:21,880 He's doing junior programming on his iPad. 501 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:23,830 Like kindergarten stuff. 502 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:30,970 The public transport company in Stockholm 503 00:29:30,970 --> 00:29:33,680 is even considering letting passengers pay for their tickets 504 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:34,990 with implanted chips. 505 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,130 Helena (indistinct), who has just received her first chip, 506 00:29:39,130 --> 00:29:40,730 thinks that's a great idea. 507 00:29:41,820 --> 00:29:43,730 I lose my things all the time. 508 00:29:43,730 --> 00:29:48,320 I lose my passport, I lose my bus card, my keys, 509 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,620 my card to the gym. 510 00:29:50,620 --> 00:29:54,480 If everything could be in one place, that would be amazing. 511 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,670 And I hope that will come during the next six months 512 00:29:57,670 --> 00:30:00,660 but maybe I shouldn't be too optimistic. 513 00:30:01,830 --> 00:30:04,500 But I guess I will be more free. 514 00:30:08,860 --> 00:30:10,300 Elsewhere in Stockholm, 515 00:30:10,300 --> 00:30:12,910 chips are already commonplace. 516 00:30:12,910 --> 00:30:15,700 The epicenter is a large modern office complex 517 00:30:15,700 --> 00:30:17,780 in the central business district. 518 00:30:17,780 --> 00:30:20,390 There are dozens of startups here. 519 00:30:20,390 --> 00:30:21,640 As a matter of course, 520 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,510 workers open the doors with chip implants. 521 00:30:31,980 --> 00:30:33,990 It was Hannes Sjoblad's idea. 522 00:30:34,870 --> 00:30:37,040 He was host of the implantation party 523 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,520 and he's the building's innovative spirit. 524 00:30:41,220 --> 00:30:44,000 I want to question the status quo. 525 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:45,080 I mean, yes, we've had keys 526 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:46,660 in our pockets all our lives, right? 527 00:30:46,660 --> 00:30:47,650 We're used to it. 528 00:30:47,650 --> 00:30:49,950 But someone has to say we don't need it. 529 00:30:49,950 --> 00:30:53,740 Someone needs to see what is possible to do tomorrow. 530 00:30:53,740 --> 00:30:56,940 So far, workers have been able to choose. 531 00:30:56,940 --> 00:30:59,410 The question of course is whether they will still be able 532 00:30:59,410 --> 00:31:00,900 to do so in future. 533 00:31:05,020 --> 00:31:08,170 I just want to have a community of smart people 534 00:31:08,170 --> 00:31:09,720 who learn how this works. 535 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:11,930 Because if the day comes 536 00:31:11,930 --> 00:31:16,030 when a big company launches the eye implant 537 00:31:16,030 --> 00:31:19,110 or the Swedish tax authority says 538 00:31:19,110 --> 00:31:20,770 we are going to chip everyone, 539 00:31:20,770 --> 00:31:23,070 then we will have a group of people 540 00:31:23,070 --> 00:31:26,960 who understands this technology and can challenge the uses 541 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,470 that the authority wants this technology to have on us. 542 00:31:30,470 --> 00:31:32,260 So for me, this is so important 543 00:31:32,260 --> 00:31:34,380 with the democratization of technology. 544 00:31:34,380 --> 00:31:38,220 It's not just to learn how to use the technology, 545 00:31:38,220 --> 00:31:39,380 it's more important 546 00:31:39,380 --> 00:31:41,680 to understand how it's being used against you. 547 00:31:44,210 --> 00:31:46,520 What if the data on the chips was accessed 548 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,400 by strangers? 549 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,400 The Orwellian dystopia, the Big Brother, 550 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,290 would no longer be fiction. 551 00:31:53,290 --> 00:31:56,010 Chips could create the transparent citizen. 552 00:31:57,390 --> 00:32:00,100 (indistinct) From the Chaos Computer Club believes 553 00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:01,240 that the secret services 554 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,930 and business would be very interested in this data. 555 00:32:09,450 --> 00:32:10,430 Of course, it's very interesting 556 00:32:10,430 --> 00:32:12,310 for them to register people in passing 557 00:32:12,310 --> 00:32:14,440 without having to use face recognition 558 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,330 or similar techniques. 559 00:32:16,330 --> 00:32:18,550 Simply to say that was this and that person 560 00:32:18,550 --> 00:32:20,650 who just walked along there and there, 561 00:32:20,650 --> 00:32:23,420 to produce personality profiles or movement patterns. 562 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:25,660 At the end of the day, 563 00:32:25,660 --> 00:32:27,980 these technologies can be used against us. 564 00:32:34,670 --> 00:32:37,630 In Berlin, Hika Kierkenupp has an appointment 565 00:32:37,630 --> 00:32:39,340 with a regular client. 566 00:32:39,340 --> 00:32:42,310 Erina Dubois doesn't just want passive chips 567 00:32:42,310 --> 00:32:43,920 and magnets in her body, 568 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,730 but bigger implants that need batteries. 569 00:32:46,730 --> 00:32:48,550 Am I going to be one of the first people? 570 00:32:48,550 --> 00:32:49,990 Because they said they're going to make a trial 571 00:32:49,990 --> 00:32:52,330 for the first 2,000 people who preordered. 572 00:32:52,330 --> 00:32:54,340 Yeah, so you will be one of the first, 573 00:32:54,340 --> 00:32:56,040 the first I know the first one in Germany. 574 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,650 Oh my god, really? 575 00:32:58,650 --> 00:32:59,480 Yes. 576 00:33:00,790 --> 00:33:04,560 Erina wants the Northsense, a kind of compass. 577 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:08,000 The implant is supposed to vibrate whenever she faces north. 578 00:33:12,170 --> 00:33:15,050 This is not a device or a gadget. 579 00:33:15,050 --> 00:33:17,460 This is technology that evolves with you. 580 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:25,090 In time, you'll develop new types of memory, 581 00:33:25,090 --> 00:33:27,830 experience, and feeling. 582 00:33:29,930 --> 00:33:32,920 Big promises lead to great expectations. 583 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:39,270 It was exciting 584 00:33:39,270 --> 00:33:40,740 because it's kind of you're on Google Maps. 585 00:33:40,740 --> 00:33:42,940 At some point, you will be just used to, you know, 586 00:33:42,940 --> 00:33:46,390 you walk down that street or you have the feeling, oh, 587 00:33:46,390 --> 00:33:47,390 okay, I have to go there. 588 00:33:47,390 --> 00:33:49,950 Yeah, getting the Northsense can completely transform 589 00:33:49,950 --> 00:33:53,230 my perception of travel, of discovering cities, 590 00:33:53,230 --> 00:33:56,040 of maybe I will still get lost 591 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,640 but I will kind of know which direction I'm going 592 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,580 and that can really, yeah, that changes my perception. 593 00:34:03,940 --> 00:34:06,490 Erina doesn't just want more implants. 594 00:34:06,490 --> 00:34:09,120 She would even replace some body parts. 595 00:34:10,410 --> 00:34:13,260 If I can have a heart that makes me live forever, sure. 596 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,260 I guess if we get to the point 597 00:34:17,260 --> 00:34:20,150 where we can exchange body parts, 598 00:34:20,150 --> 00:34:22,540 then eventually I will have to exchange all of them 599 00:34:22,540 --> 00:34:24,530 because they naturally die. 600 00:34:25,650 --> 00:34:28,350 Could humans eventually upgrade themselves 601 00:34:28,350 --> 00:34:29,520 for immortality? 602 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:31,930 A political scientist 603 00:34:31,930 --> 00:34:34,710 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is researching 604 00:34:34,710 --> 00:34:37,790 how cyborg technologies are influencing our society. 605 00:34:42,790 --> 00:34:46,170 If we assume that society remains roughly as it is, 606 00:34:46,170 --> 00:34:49,220 I'm very pessimistic that the so-called refuseniks, 607 00:34:49,220 --> 00:34:52,070 people who reject these developments, can keep resisting. 608 00:34:54,650 --> 00:34:57,000 A simple example I remember is how people discussed 609 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,940 the importance of participating fully in society 610 00:34:59,940 --> 00:35:01,510 without using the internet. 611 00:35:04,070 --> 00:35:07,540 Of course you can refuse to use the internet today 612 00:35:07,540 --> 00:35:10,490 but I think it would be difficult even to study without it. 613 00:35:15,380 --> 00:35:18,680 Human dignity is inalienable. 614 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:20,440 When the boundaries between humans 615 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:24,580 and electronic devices are blurred, where is our identity? 616 00:35:25,450 --> 00:35:28,620 Is it going to be a question of what upgrade we can afford? 617 00:35:31,060 --> 00:35:34,160 This new life means greater control. 618 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,020 We can stop diseases and decay. 619 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,740 But we will need a new frame of values and social morays 620 00:35:40,740 --> 00:35:41,640 with this freedom. 621 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,620 Things are not looking good for Oliver Waack-Jurgensen 622 00:35:56,620 --> 00:35:57,920 and his cyborg hip. 623 00:35:58,780 --> 00:36:01,990 He hasn't been able to convince the manufacturers, 624 00:36:01,990 --> 00:36:04,520 so today he's talking to the Pirate Society 625 00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:06,640 where he's a member of the board. 626 00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,180 Pirate focuses on political education 627 00:36:09,180 --> 00:36:10,900 and its members have good contacts 628 00:36:10,900 --> 00:36:13,740 amongst politicians and academics. 629 00:36:13,740 --> 00:36:15,250 He hopes to get their support. 630 00:36:18,650 --> 00:36:22,110 I'd be grateful for ideas and support from your connections 631 00:36:22,110 --> 00:36:26,290 to find other manufacturers, probably outside of Europe. 632 00:36:26,290 --> 00:36:28,080 And for us to say, come on guys, 633 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:29,790 let's try something like this. 634 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,900 I don't understand why you want to reach the manufacturers. 635 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:40,060 Perhaps you can explain, 636 00:36:40,060 --> 00:36:42,640 because I think the first thing you need to do, 637 00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:44,580 the first people you need to talk to are 638 00:36:44,580 --> 00:36:47,150 the guys involved in medical ethics 639 00:36:47,150 --> 00:36:48,900 and they are not the manufacturers. 640 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,340 Another issue, of course, is the legal aspect. 641 00:36:56,340 --> 00:36:59,460 Apart from the ethics experts, the lawyers. 642 00:36:59,460 --> 00:37:02,040 That's an incredibly important target group 643 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,680 to get them to think about where the boundaries lie. 644 00:37:10,460 --> 00:37:12,230 You should really be having this discussion 645 00:37:12,230 --> 00:37:15,310 with technologists, doctors, and ethical experts. 646 00:37:16,340 --> 00:37:18,880 And not just for a matinee, but a whole workshop. 647 00:37:20,950 --> 00:37:24,130 I think that could trigger a social debate. 648 00:37:24,130 --> 00:37:26,160 We would support you, I said this from the start. 649 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,650 It's our issue, our new big issue. 650 00:37:32,140 --> 00:37:33,260 Great, thank you. 651 00:37:33,260 --> 00:37:35,000 Your reaction's cool. 652 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:36,010 It's really important to me 653 00:37:36,010 --> 00:37:38,060 and I'm really pleased with the feedback. 654 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,870 Waack-Jurgensen could get his cyborg hip quite soon. 655 00:37:45,250 --> 00:37:47,790 I hope society will take more notice of cyborgism 656 00:37:47,790 --> 00:37:51,180 and it spreads so that people overcome the fear they have. 657 00:37:55,690 --> 00:37:57,230 It's a legitimate fear. 658 00:37:57,230 --> 00:37:59,640 Look, that other guy is trying to improve himself 659 00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:02,140 with technology and he's doing it 660 00:38:02,140 --> 00:38:04,330 and has the advantage over me. 661 00:38:04,330 --> 00:38:05,380 That's indisputable. 662 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,670 It's an issue with cyborgism. 663 00:38:08,670 --> 00:38:10,270 We need to work on it 664 00:38:10,270 --> 00:38:12,460 and demand that society create the conditions 665 00:38:12,460 --> 00:38:14,630 in which the two can co-exist, 666 00:38:14,630 --> 00:38:18,020 and in the best case scenario, cooperate. 667 00:38:23,510 --> 00:38:27,460 Patrick Paumen has been waiting for this day for months. 668 00:38:27,460 --> 00:38:29,610 He's come to Berlin with a prototype 669 00:38:29,610 --> 00:38:32,990 of the data encoding chip from the USA in his luggage. 670 00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:41,210 I'm very excited. 671 00:38:41,210 --> 00:38:42,980 I haven't been able to test it yet. 672 00:38:44,430 --> 00:38:45,860 I hope everything works out. 673 00:38:48,870 --> 00:38:50,860 Paumen wants to get the implant done 674 00:38:50,860 --> 00:38:53,150 in Hika Kierkenupp's piercing studio. 675 00:38:55,890 --> 00:38:58,200 Hi, I brought the new implant. 676 00:38:58,200 --> 00:38:59,560 Show me. 677 00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:01,180 The packet arrived yesterday. 678 00:39:01,180 --> 00:39:02,180 Perfect timing. 679 00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,770 They don't yet know if the chip works. 680 00:39:07,770 --> 00:39:10,220 When it was tested recently on another volunteer, 681 00:39:10,220 --> 00:39:11,530 it broke immediately. 682 00:39:13,910 --> 00:39:15,300 So this is it. 683 00:39:15,300 --> 00:39:17,390 It'll be my first time. 684 00:39:17,390 --> 00:39:18,940 Wow, it's quite long, isn't it? 685 00:39:19,830 --> 00:39:21,010 But relatively flat. 686 00:39:22,900 --> 00:39:24,610 I certainly want to test it first, 687 00:39:24,610 --> 00:39:26,580 if it's able to read, we'll see. 688 00:39:38,770 --> 00:39:40,770 What does that mean, no? 689 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,600 Sorry, tag communication was interrupted. 690 00:39:49,130 --> 00:39:50,670 Now it's reading. 691 00:39:50,670 --> 00:39:51,880 Yes? 692 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:55,720 It's been recognized as an NXP smart MC chip. 693 00:39:58,540 --> 00:40:00,750 So it's all systems go. 694 00:40:03,660 --> 00:40:06,320 The prototype chip is exceptionally large. 695 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,480 It can't be injected under the skin 696 00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:10,830 like most of the other chips Paumen has. 697 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:18,000 What implants do you have now? 698 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,340 Only the NFC chip. 699 00:40:20,820 --> 00:40:23,930 I can't remember the number offhand, a 125 RFID. 700 00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,940 The procedure takes 45 minutes. 701 00:40:34,940 --> 00:40:38,320 Then Paumen has the 12th implant in his body. 702 00:40:45,890 --> 00:40:47,370 So it's inside. 703 00:40:51,260 --> 00:40:52,090 Inside. 704 00:40:54,830 --> 00:40:57,560 For Paumen, the chip is mainly a status symbol. 705 00:41:02,740 --> 00:41:04,380 Yes, I'm proud that it's a prototype. 706 00:41:04,380 --> 00:41:09,070 It's not on the market yet and I'm one of the beta testers. 707 00:41:12,820 --> 00:41:16,610 The manufacturer asked me if I could test it and I said yes. 708 00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:28,430 Paumen can now encode with the chip 709 00:41:28,430 --> 00:41:30,550 and eventually perhaps even pay with it. 710 00:41:31,590 --> 00:41:33,720 It certainly won't be his last implant. 711 00:41:40,780 --> 00:41:43,350 Neil Harbisson also has plans. 712 00:41:43,350 --> 00:41:46,180 He wants to receive an implant that is entirely new. 713 00:41:52,030 --> 00:41:55,300 So I'm creating an organ that will be circular 714 00:41:55,300 --> 00:41:56,660 between the skin and the bone 715 00:41:56,660 --> 00:41:59,630 and it will give heat depending on what time it is. 716 00:41:59,630 --> 00:42:03,090 So it would take 24 hours for the heat to go around the head 717 00:42:03,090 --> 00:42:05,020 so I'll know what time it is 718 00:42:05,020 --> 00:42:07,070 by just feeling the heat around the head. 719 00:42:10,070 --> 00:42:12,030 But if I have this for several months or years, 720 00:42:12,030 --> 00:42:13,900 it should become my perception of time, 721 00:42:13,900 --> 00:42:15,980 so then I'll be able to control 722 00:42:15,980 --> 00:42:18,260 if I want time to go faster or slower. 723 00:42:18,260 --> 00:42:19,960 If I make the heat go slower, 724 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:21,880 I'll feel that time goes slower. 725 00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:23,060 Or if I want time to go faster, 726 00:42:23,060 --> 00:42:25,270 I can program it so it goes faster. 727 00:42:25,270 --> 00:42:27,780 If i make it go twice forwards or backwards. 728 00:42:27,780 --> 00:42:30,580 So it's taking Einstein's theory of time relativity 729 00:42:30,580 --> 00:42:32,520 into a sense, into an organ 730 00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:34,560 to see whether or not you can control your perception 731 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:36,720 of time if you have an organ for time. 732 00:42:37,970 --> 00:42:40,370 It's doubtful whether we can really manipulate 733 00:42:40,370 --> 00:42:42,650 our sense of time like that. 734 00:42:42,650 --> 00:42:43,640 But what's certain is 735 00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:47,180 that cyborg technologies will change our society. 736 00:42:50,220 --> 00:42:52,320 Imagine two persons meeting in the future. 737 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,340 What will the interaction be like? 738 00:42:54,340 --> 00:42:58,370 So possibly, let's say we have implant technology 739 00:42:58,370 --> 00:43:00,320 that logs the different processes 740 00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:01,970 that is going on in the body. 741 00:43:01,970 --> 00:43:04,460 Someone is stressed, someone is happy, 742 00:43:04,460 --> 00:43:07,250 someone is angry, someone is in love. 743 00:43:07,250 --> 00:43:10,940 And imagine the ability to share this information directly 744 00:43:10,940 --> 00:43:12,820 inside someone else. 745 00:43:12,820 --> 00:43:13,860 I think this would create 746 00:43:13,860 --> 00:43:16,340 a greater understanding between people 747 00:43:16,340 --> 00:43:17,330 and a greater understanding 748 00:43:17,330 --> 00:43:20,450 for what another person is feeling and going through. 749 00:43:20,450 --> 00:43:24,450 And I hope that this will make us more ethical persons 750 00:43:24,450 --> 00:43:26,950 if we have a greater understanding for each other. 751 00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:34,660 I think it's really important not to leave 752 00:43:34,660 --> 00:43:37,160 the debate about the social effects of technology 753 00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:39,990 to technologists, engineers, and economists. 754 00:43:42,780 --> 00:43:45,440 It's really important to start a discussion in the media 755 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:47,930 about what lies ahead, what's conceivable, 756 00:43:47,930 --> 00:43:50,180 and what effect it could have on our society. 757 00:43:57,900 --> 00:44:00,050 I think we should reflect on these processes 758 00:44:00,050 --> 00:44:01,560 before they rush in on us. 759 00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:09,620 What is technically possible 760 00:44:09,620 --> 00:44:12,280 and what is ethically justifiable? 761 00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:15,830 We are just beginning to explore those boundaries.