Remarkably Human Radio

By all outward appearances, Tim Cannon looks like a fairly ordinary guy.  If you saw him on the streets of his hometown of Pittsburgh, he’d probably blend in. But on the inside, he’s far from ordinary.   What sets him apart are not only his several electronic implants that make him part cyborg, but the fact that he has done this himself – at home, outside of the lab, without the help of a team of surgeons, using affordable, safe, open-source technology. He’s the co-founder of an organization called Grindhouse Wetware, and he’s a biohacker, a do-it-yourself technologist pushing the limits of integrating technology with the human body – and he’s bringing it to the mainstream, so that it’s accessible to everyone. Tim joins me for a discussion of his own personal history with DIY biohacking and implantation, as well as some broader philosophical musings on technology, the state of the human condition and where we might be going tec