How biohackers are reimagining humanity.

It’s weird, living in the future.

Since the Victorian era, when science fiction began to coalesce as a genre, people have been thinking and talking and writing about what would happen right now, in our time. Past futurists set down wild visions, made outlandish projections as they contemplated life in what is our present. If you’ve encountered enough of this sci-fi imagining, living in 2019 can feel like existing partly inside someone else’s dream of what’s to come.

Altering human bodies with technology — an enterprise that blurs the line between science and science fiction past the point of mattering — is one of those possibilities past futurists found themselves contemplating. Since sci-fi’s early days, the genre... Read More