On the evening of November 16, 2016, the German-language public broadcaster 3sat premiered Techno Sapiens: Die Zukunft der Spezies Mensch ("The Future of the Human Species"), a fifty-three-minute science documentary directed by Peppo Wagner for 3sat and ORF.
The film puts biohacking in serious company. My segment on RFID implants sits alongside business psychologist Bertolt Meyer, human geneticist Markus Hengstschläger, neuroinformatics researcher Wolfgang Maass, and technology-assessment researcher Michael Nentwich, with the whole ranging across cryonics, artificial intelligence, genetics, and the ethics of human self-optimization.
European public-broadcast science television is its own genre: unhurried, and more interested in what a technology means than in whether it is creepy. A film that gives its subjects the better part of an hour has room for second questions, the kind that never survive a broadcast edit. Being filed under "the future of the species" rather than "weird news" felt like progress.
The documentary later surfaced on Apple TV and Google Play, and a copy lives on the Internet Archive. Mine lives here.