In late August 2016 I was in Sydney for a transhumanism event tied to the launch of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, the video game set in a future of mechanically augmented humans, released August 23, 2016. A game about augmentation marking its launch with an actual implanted human says something about where the culture sat that year, and Australian television made the most of my visit.
Sunrise: Meet a Real Life Cyborg
Channel Seven's morning show Sunrise ran a segment around launch day titled, with admirable directness, "Meet a real life cyborg."
The Morning Show: Rise of the Cyborgs
Also on Seven, The Morning Show with hosts Larry Emdur and Kylie Gillies gave the subject six minutes under the on-screen banner "Rise of the Cyborgs — merging man and machine with microchip implants."
SBS The Feed: A New Kind of Evolution
Two weeks after the morning shows, SBS's The Feed published reporter Patrick Abboud's profile, "'It's a new kind of evolution': Meet biohacker Amal Graafstra." Their summary of the demo reel was tidy: open doors, start cars, log in to computers, all with a wave of the hand.