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Revision as of 15:41, 19 July 2021

This is a timeline of biohacking.

Sample questions

The following are some interesting questions that can be answered by reading this timeline:

Big picture

Time period Development summary More details
2000s Increased proliferation "the dissemination of genetic engineering techniques has continued, even accelerated, thanks in part to an economic downturn in the 2000s that prompted several struggling biotech firms to sell off their equipment to biohacker collectives"[1]

Visual and numerical data

Mentions on Google Scholar

The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar as of May 13, 2021.

Year biohacking biohacking technology biohacking implant biohacking ethics biohacking gene editing
1995 1 1 0 0 0
2000 0 0 0 0 0
2002 1 1 1 0 0
2004 3 2 0 2 2
2006 2 2 0 5 5
2008 11 9 2 10 5
2010 25 23 7 15 13
2012 60 50 10 32 24
2014 133 116 44 78 49
2016 247 214 83 169 107
2017 303 260 104 185 147
2018 371 327 146 226 178
2019 556 429 182 305 255
2020 527 442 187 333 257
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Google Trends

The chart below shows Google Trends data for Biohacking (search term), from January 2004 to Month 2021, when the screenshot was taken. Interest is also ranked by country and displayed on world map.[2]

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Google Ngram Viewer

The chart below shows Google Ngram Viewer data for Biohacking, from 2000 to 2019.[3]

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Wikipedia Views

The chart below shows pageviews of the English Wikipedia article Biohacking, from July 2015 to April 2021. [4]

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Full timeline

Year Month and date Event type Approach (when applicable) Details
1930s The Mertonian ethos is proposed by American sociologist Robert K. Merton as an account of scientist's norms of behavior.[5]
1960 "Manfred Clynes and Nathan Klines’ 1960 article, "Cyborgs and Space""
1984 "1984 - The 1984 Novel Neuromancer by William Gibson is often attributed as the cause in the rise of transhumanism culture popularity in modern times, and for coining terminology and ideas that form the basis of modern Cyberpunk and body hacking culture."[6]
1985 Donna Haraway’s publishes her Cyborg Manifesto, giving rise to the cyborg theory.[7]
1986 Hacker Manifesto
1988 "“You can pick up any recent issue of Science magazine, flip through it and find ads for kit after kit of biotechnology techniques,” says molecular biologist Tom St. John of the Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.21 Remarkably, St. John made this comment in 1988 in a Washington Post article, one titled Playing God in Your Basement and likening biohacking to 1970s computer hacking."[1]
2005 "Amal Graafstra is known for implanting an RFID chip in 2005 and developing human-friendly chips including the first ever implantable NFC chip."[8]
2009 "Then in 2009, the National Security Council dramatically changed perspectives. It published the National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats, which embraced “innovation and open access to the insights and materials needed to advance individual initiatives,” including in “private laboratories in basements and garages.”"[9]
2013 Biotech startup company Dangerous Things is founded by Amal Graafstra.[10]
2014 October 17 Literature Ari R. Meisel publishes Intro to Biohacking.[11]
2015 May Literature James Lee publishes The Biohacking Manifesto: The Scientific Blueprint for a Long, Healthy and Happy Life Using Cutting Edge Anti-Aging and Neuroscience Based Hacks.[12]
2015 Literature James Lee publishes The Biohacking Manifesto: The Scientific Blueprint for a Long, Healthy and Happy Life Using Cutting Edge Anti-Aging and Neuroscience Based Hacks.[13]
2016 " In 2016, sick of suffering from severe stomach pain, Zayner decided to give himself a fecal transplant in a hotel room. He had procured a friend’s poop and planned to inoculate himself using the microbes in it. Ever the public stuntman, he invited a journalist to document the procedure. Afterward, he claimed the experiment left him feeling better."[9]
2020 August 20 German techno-thriller television series Biohackers is released on Netflix.[14]

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See also

External links

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Vargo, Marc E. (11 August 2017). The Weaponizing of Biology: Bioterrorism, Biocrime and Biohacking. McFarland. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-4766-2933-9. 
  2. "Biohacking". Google Trends. Retrieved 23 May 2021. 
  3. "Biohacking". books.google.com. Retrieved 23 May 2021. 
  4. "Biohacking". wikipediaviews.org. Retrieved 23 May 2021. 
  5. Delfanti, Alessandro (7 May 2013). Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science. Pluto Press. ISBN 978-0-7453-3280-2. 
  6. "Neuromancer | Summary & Cultural Impact". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-09-24. 
  7. "Close Reading of Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway | Darat al Funun". daratalfunun.org. Retrieved 5 May 2021. 
  8. "The xNT implantable NFC chip". Indiegogo. Retrieved 5 April 2021. 
  9. 9.0 9.1 Samuel, Sigal (25 June 2019). "How biohackers are trying to upgrade their brains, their bodies — and human nature". Vox. Retrieved 12 April 2021. 
  10. "Dangerous Things". Dangerous Things. Retrieved 5 April 2021. 
  11. Meisel, Ari R. Intro to Biohacking. Createspace Independent Pub. ISBN 978-1-5025-1546-9. 
  12. Lee, James. The Biohacking Manifesto: The Scientific Blueprint for a Long, Healthy and Happy Life Using Cutting Edge Anti-Aging and Neuroscience Based Hacks. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1-5121-2127-8. 
  13. Lee, James. The Biohacking Manifesto: The Scientific Blueprint for a Long, Healthy and Happy Life Using Cutting Edge Anti-Aging and Neuroscience Based Hacks. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1-5121-2127-8. 
  14. [biohackers "We are the Biohackers"] Check |url= value (help). Biohackers. Pluto Press. pp. 111–129. Retrieved 17 April 2021.