As usual, most of the examples here are more performance art than transhumanism, plus a submarine article for Eyeborg, which is somewhere between performance art and a Google Glass -eye.

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I wonder who we can consider the first transhumanist.

Farming is in my mind the original hacking. Some clever ancient fellows who thought, "what if we can rig up our own food supply? Get some Aurochs (cows) to hang out long enough, maybe grow some food for them."

Success breeds inventory, inventory breeds writing. The rest is literally history.

The first body-hacking is the guy that was able to drink non-human milk and process lactose, 10,000 years ago near modern day Turkey. Maybe it was his mother or father hacking the food supply at first. In any case so successful was this guy that his genes spread like wildfire.

These to me seem amazing, game changing feats in human development. Who's the real transhumanist here? The person who can drink cows milk, or the person who put a magnet in their finger? It just feels so very quaint. Putting a magnet under your finger isn't even as impressive as the first guy to make a wrist-watch, something so amazing that it became ubiquitous enough to the point where we've forgotten to even think about it.

I like the idea of transhumanism. If I had billions to fall back on I'd start a prosthetics company in a (synthetic) heartbeat. But I think we've stalled here, by and large, if we're still writing articles about "magnets and LED lights inserted under the skin."

> a bionic arm, laser lit, and with phone-charging ports and a personal drone attachment.

This is the prosthetic equivalent of a sneaker with flashing lights in the heels.