5.06.2006

Human Implants

I found this at the apartment a long time ago. Unlike radioactive tattoos (see below), human upgrades will have your boss asking questions. Just don't tell him why.

Something to think about what with the new X-Men soon coming to theatres: How close are we to mutant ability? I'm finding more and more scientific proof (cloning, gene splicing, growing food in incubators, growing human organs on mice, to name a few) that maybe we're closer than we think to a hybrid-human such as the judgement jurors, art work incorporating research performed through the human genome project. In this series, Daniel Lee created pieces using Chinese mythology's circle of reincarnation to establish personalities, then performed a "what if" by splicing human and animal genetics.

It's all sci fi to me. I keep asking myself, how long till these scenes play themselves into reality? What affect will it have on the world of design? Will "clients" be asking us to design their own alter-egos, and in turn bring the "designs" to scientists who will have the tools to create?

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