This Implant Could One Day Control Your Sleep and Wake Cycles

Article by Dieynaba Young. Smithsonian Magazine – June 18, 2021.

The so-called ‘living pharmacy’ will be able to manufacture pharmaceuticals from inside the body

In 1926, Fritz Kahn completed Man as Industrial Palace, the preeminent lithograph in his five-volume publication The Life of Man. The illustration shows a human body bustling with tiny factory workers. They cheerily operate a brain filled with switchboards, circuits and manometers. Below their feet, an ingenious network of pipes, chutes and conveyer belts make up the blood circulatory system. The image epitomizes a central motif in Kahn’s oeuvre: the parallel between human physiology and manufacturing, or the human body as a marvel of engineering. […]

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