{"id":9215,"date":"2013-12-02T22:39:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T06:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9215"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:12:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:12:48","slug":"the-first-person-in-the-world-to-become-a-government-recognized-cyborg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/the-first-person-in-the-world-to-become-a-government-recognized-cyborg","title":{"rendered":"The first person in the world to become a government-recognized cyborg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"meta-bg\"><span class=\"meta-info display-name strong\"><a class=\"text-upper\" href=\"http:\/\/annaleenewitz.kinja.com\">Annalee Newitz<\/a><\/span><span class=\"meta-info display-name strong published-on\"> <span class=\"trigger-italic\">on<\/span> <a class=\"text-upper\" href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\">io9<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Neil Harbisson is the first person on the planet to have a passport photo that shows his cyborg nature \u2014 in his UK passport, he\u2019s wearing a head-mounted device called an eyeborg. The color-blind artist says the eyeborg allows him to see color, and he wants to help other cyborgs like himself gain more rights.<\/p>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"cd5dd4ce2e605022090524d625bcfe9b\">Anyone who has ever gotten a passport photo knows Harbisson has accomplished something that once seemed bureaucratically impossible. Other people with cyborg headgear,<a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5926587\/what-may-be-the-worlds-first-cybernetic-hate-crime-unfolds-in-french-mcdonalds\"> like Steve Mann<\/a>, have had their gear forcibly removed and been refused entrance into buildings for wearing devices on their heads. But with a passport photo that shows the eyeborg as part of Harbisson\u2019s face, somebody trying to rip his augmentation off would be committing a violent crime equivalent to injuring his face.<\/p>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"0e5eaa69a1c1cb7bc7fd7f27dd257653\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2013\/11\/20\/interview-with-human-cyborg-neil-harbisson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dezeen has a fascinating interview with Harbisson<\/a>, where he talks about how his body adapted to the device he now thinks of as an integral part of himself.<\/p>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"0e5eaa69a1c1cb7bc7fd7f27dd257653\"><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/the-first-person-in-the-world-to-become-a-government-re-1474975237\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annalee Newitz on io9 Neil Harbisson is the first person on the planet to have a passport photo that shows his cyborg nature \u2014 in his UK passport, he\u2019s wearing a head-mounted device called an eyeborg. The color-blind artist says the eyeborg allows him to see color, and he wants to help other cyborgs like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1500,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-posthumanism","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65108,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9215\/revisions\/65108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}