In the autumn of 2014, European television came calling from two directions at once. On September 30, ProSieben's Galileo aired a "Bodyhacker" segment about people upgrading their bodies with chips, magnets, and other implants. The German science and infotainment series has been on the air since 1998, hosted by Aiman Abdallah. The segment included a chipping event where five people received implants, and a look at the RFID and NFC chips I carry in both hands.
A few weeks later, on October 25, France 24's technology program Tech 24 ran "How to become a Cyborg," talking with me about my experiments with RFID implants and why biohacking may dictate the future of human evolution. The same episode put Motorola's first smartwatch, the Moto 360, through a review: implants and wearables sharing one rundown was where 2014 sat on the adoption curve. My archive copy carries the segment title "A new kind of human evolution?" That title echoes the phrasing I'd used on the TEDx stage the year before.