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Service Innovation for Cyborgs – Human Augmentation as a Self-experiment

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Advances in the Human Side of Service Engineering (AHFE 2020)

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Bodyhacking, Human Augmentation, Human Enhancement and Transhumanism. These terms describe a relatively new trend describing the development of humans towards cyborgs. While some people regard this as a threat for mankind others see it as a huge potential. This paper provides an overview of the most common developments and closes with the experiences of a self-experiment describing the practicability of NFC implants.

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    Christian Zagel

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Zagel, C. (2020). Service Innovation for Cyborgs – Human Augmentation as a Self-experiment. In: Spohrer, J., Leitner, C. (eds) Advances in the Human Side of Service Engineering. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1208. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51057-2_4

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