[Cyborg] DIY H+

[Eric Boyd]

http://sapiensanonym.blogspot.com/2011/05/oh-look-it-hasnt-accomplished-anything.html

Click on the download link to her essay, it's pretty good.

"The intelligent audience will notice several things when reading the 
official publications of Humanity+ or published summaries of the work 
achieved to date. The entire movement, from the editorials of H+ 
Magazine today to the joyous writings of FM-2030 forty years ago, has 
been excruciatingly theoretical."

"While transhumanism is a philosophy, biohacking is something else; it 
is closer to a fledgling branch of science, without any of the funding 
or unified knowledge, made up of everything and anyone the public has to 
offer. It is an underground, with no admissions policy and no 
qualifications necessary. It is about what small, cheaply-produced 
“hacks” can be tweaked into the human body. These are generally 
implanted devices but could also include “homebrew” designs of anything 
else: legal drugs, other types of devices such as haptics, and anything 
else considered an enhancement to the body. A prerequisite of such hacks 
is that they are available to everyone who wishes to learn about them; 
results are generally placed on blogs and websites, and usually code is 
'copylefted' under the GNU General Public License."

Eric