On September 23, 2016, I sat down for a twenty-seven-minute talk-format conversation recorded under the title Dinner Talk on Bionic Biohacking. My archive notes for this one are unusually thin: a title, a date, and the footage itself. So I will spare you invented detail about the venue and let the recording speak for itself. If you can place the room, my inbox is open.
The timing puts it in one of the densest stretches of 2016 for this subject: six weeks after Motherboard's smart-gun exclusive, a month after their encryption feature, and hard on the heels of the Australian television run. By that fall the subject had been through enough news cycles that a slower, longer conversation was the more interesting format.
Twenty-seven unhurried minutes on bionic biohacking, from a season when most of my coverage arrived in three-minute bursts. That is why it earns its place in this archive.