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Mind your language

Why should the body be immune from being hacked about?

24 March 2018

9:00 AM

24 March 2018

9:00 AM

A 72-year-old Australian called Stelarc, the BBC reported, has an ear growing from one arm. He hopes to connect a microphone to it so that people can hear on the internet the sounds it picks up. Mr Stelarc is a body-hacker. They tend to have names like Stelarc.

Hacker itself was first used as a surname, but not for a body-hacker or a computer-hacker.

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