ABSTRACT
The human body has always endowed itself with artificial limbs and other devices to extend and multiply its capabilities in both a cognitive and an operative sense (Longo, 1999). But, now, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have not only come near to the body but are also entering it, for the time being in the form of microchips, but in time also in the form of implants or genome modifications to grow the peripheral devices that we desire. ICTs were brought into effective service under the umbrella of medicine, not just at a preventive level, but also diagnostically and therapeutically (Katz, 2003). In Great Britain, experimentation then also insinuated itself into the domestic sphere in order to facilitate command over household appliances and any mechanism capable of being worked electronically. In the United States, ICTs were experimented with to facilitate the finding of missing persons. The shift was therefore from the therapeutic field to quality-of-life engineering.
