We can explore a body and a world both designed to our own specifications. Terminal identity is both the end of the subject and a new subjectivity constructed at the computer station or television screen. An actor wearing a DataSuit brings the image to life and controls it s every movement and gesture. A bodymapped public figure, whether alive or dead, could appear in interactive VR, portrayed in a variety of situations. Bodymapping has potential for gender swapping and the adoption of different guises.
Body sensors an teledildonics have the potential for ever more impersonal forms of interaction.
VR sex will certainly be the safest form of safe sex and The Joy Of Cybersex has already been published. Consumer medicine also offers considerable scope and consumer culture encourages the perception of the body as plastic , capable of being moulded into any desires appearance. Postmodern desire has replaced the dream of progress. We already have body contouring, discrete implant technology, skin peels, tissue freezing, liposuction, phallo-plasty, and silicone muscle and breast implants. The complete face transplant has been mooted.