To redesign the body to be immortal is the last step of quest for the complete mastering of life. Now, body design maybe still in a quite superficial level. To do cosmetic surgery to look younger, to go though surgery to change sex, to put silicone implants or to auto-amputate, to brand, pierce, scarificate or tattoo the body, all these body transformations maybe nothing compared to what we will see in ten or twenty years.

The once invisible inside of human body is being explored until its last layer its revealed. Then what? Homo Sapiens - maybe another endangered specie, sustains the philosopher Mark C. Taylor:

when the body appears to be endangered, it becomes an obsession. This is one of the primary reasons that tattooing (as well as piercing and scarification) has beacon so widespread during this particular historical and cultural period. Tattooing represent an effort to mark the body at the very moment it is disappearing.(7)

(1) - Mark Dery, "Escape Velocity", page 256;
(2) - "Body Voyage", Introduction Brochure;
(3) - "Body Voyage", Introduction Brochure;
(4) - "Body Voyage", Introduction Brochure;
(5) - Mark Dery, "Escape Velocity", page 232;
(6) - Mark C. Taylor, "Hiding", page 129.