Nanograms is 90.5 WESA's new technology and culture podcast.
Season One, 'Borg in the USA, launched September 24, 2015.
To be alive in the developed world in 2015 is to be situated within a stream of data that flow both in and out of one's body. Some people are trying to upgrade their input/output ports to let those data flow more freely. By building digital interfaces into their nervous systems, grinders are blurring the boundary between human and machine -- and raising some difficult questions about the nature of consciousness.