INDN 212 Project 2: Ideas

One thing that I find incredibly fascinating is the idea of functional body modification. The idea that the body is a blank canvas is one that many people believe and is becoming more and more socially acceptable as things like tattoos and piercings enter "mainstream" society. But for me it still feels a little bit shallow, there is so much potential to add functions or abilities to the body with body modifications, but for the most part people have just stuck to aesthetics until very recently. Right now you can get tiny magnets placed under the skin in your fingers that give you the ability to "feel" electric feilds and there is also research going on to allow UV "nano-tattoos" to allow doctors to glean an insight into how your body is functioning.

There is so much potential to add or modify the functions of the body and so that is what I am planning on doing with this assignment, and before you start wondering the answer is yes: I am fully prepared to get this modification for myself.

After all, who knows how far it could go?