Professor Andrea Matwyshyn: The Internet of Bodies: introduces the (already happening) progression of the Internet of
Things or “IoT” into the Internet of Bodies or “IoB”. It explains how IoB
presents a “legacy code” problem – the need to combine the legal challenges of
the Internet of Things with older doctrinal and theoretical legal
battles. This “legacy code” problem will present itself not only in
scholars’ and lawmakers’ struggle to reconcile conflicting legal paradigms, but
also in our norms and values as a society. Unlike our experience with the
Internet of Things, as human flesh becomes permanently entwined with and part of
technological hardware, the process of social integration of IoB will be
obviously disruptive to physical spaces. It will present a polarizing set of
value-laden social and legal determinations about the human body. It will
also cause us to evolve the definition of what it means to be “human.”
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