The human body, transformed in the final scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick (1968)
Influenced by the writings of Marshall McLuhan, Christopher Dewdney reminds us about our transitional state of being in his book Last Flesh: Life in the Transhuman Era (1998)...
"We are the products of bioengineering. Our immune systems have been altered by decoy viruses injected via vaccines. We consume genetically altered food. We use mood altering psychopharmaceuticals, from fermented grape juice to Prozac. More recently, our bodies have become sites for more than 250 types of artificial implants: synthetic heart valves, pacemakers, artificial hip and knee joints, synthetic arteries and eye lenses, not to mention those used in plastic surgery. Eventually neural implants will be used to augment our brains. Prostheses to restore the vision of blind patients have already been successfully implanted in human cortexes."