Life of Cyborgs: The cybernetic magician

Zoomin English

Anastasia Synn is a modern-day cyborg, pushing the limits of technology and her body as well as incorporating her implants into her magic performances.

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00:00I have four implants currently. I have a magnet in my finger, a magnet in the back of my wrist,

00:08and a biotemperature chip under my arm that allows me to find out my body temperature when

00:13I scan it. I have an NFC chip in my hand that I can program to open doors and be read by my phone.

00:19You can actually code it with your computer by cloning the card and writing it to your hand

00:25and now don't worry about losing your key. My name is Anastasia Sin. I'm a magician,

00:30a performer, and a cyborg. Technology has changed my life. Because of it,

00:43I know a lot more about myself. I know my stress levels. I know that I have a lot more anxiety

00:47than I thought I did. I have an app that connects to a device I wear that actually can tell when

00:52I'm breathing stressfully. It'll send me a text message and tell me to breathe. When I'm walking

00:58around, I can feel my finger vibrate and it goes right to my brain. I've had this for about seven

01:03or eight months now and the sensations, it's like hearing for the first time. It's the most

01:08amazing thing when you realize that there's an entire language that can be spoken to a

01:11magnet in your finger. I didn't understand it until I felt it. Okay, ready to see something

01:22cool? Yeah. All right. Is it gonna bleed? No. Oh my gosh. My husband thinks I'm crazy for what I'm

01:34doing. He thinks it's stupid to put things under your skin when I put the North Sense on. He asked

01:38me why I didn't just walk around with a compass. Why do I need to feel where North is? He doesn't

01:43quite understand about the building neural pathways. My daughter thinks it's awesome. She

01:48told kids at her school about it and her teacher about it because they're studying how in the

01:52future the government might be able to microchip everybody and keep tabs on them and she wants me

01:56to come in and talk to the class about how that's not possible with our technology as it exists

02:00right now. I think the reason I joined the cyborg movement is I've always been a little afraid of

02:10death and as an atheist I've never been able to find any comfort in a thought or idea of heaven,

02:15but as a cyborg I can find a lot of comfort in the thought of the future. I feel part of a

02:22community where people share the same values, where I'm not laughed at or thought of as crazy

02:27for implanting things under my body. I have found my tribe. Biohackers, cyborgs, and grinders are my

02:34people. Instead of just fixing the heart, why aren't we actually creating technology to improve

02:40the heart or improve the eyes? We don't have to just fix things that are broken. We can actually

02:45take things that work well and just improve them. I believe we need to spread the message of the

02:51cyborg philosophy and get it out there because the more people that participate, the faster it's

02:55going to grow. I want people to have no sadness. I want people to live forever. I mean, could you

03:02imagine upgrading your entire consciousness or downloading your entire consciousness to a

03:07computer and living forever? It's totally possible in this world that we're living in now,

03:10and the more people are involved, the more that's going to evolve. People don't want to die. I don't

03:17want to die. I want cyborg heaven. I want to live forever in the Internet.

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