On April 30, 2015, Bloomberg published a Wiring the World segment titled "Biohacking Your Body to Open Doors Without Keys." Correspondent Ramy Inocencio traveled to Seattle to watch a needle-injection installation and to see what an implantee can do with a wave of the hand.
Bloomberg's own description of the beat was more generous than most headlines of the era managed: a growing number of people across the U.S. and around the world putting microchips and other high-tech devices under their own skin "to give them beyond-human abilities." I will take beyond-human over creepy any day of the week.
The doors-without-keys framing was also, for me, a ten-year callback: opening a door without keys was the entire reason I got the first implant in 2005. At three minutes and change this is one of the tightest pieces in my archive, the elevator pitch for a subject I usually get an hour on.