Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed are my own and do not reflect the views, policies, or positions of my employer or any organization with which I am affiliated. ---- Who put a chip under their skin first? Depending on who you ask, you’ll hear Kevin Warwick , the British cybernetics professor behind Project Cyborg. He had a chip implanted in 1998. There’s a problem with that. Eduardo Kac had done a public microchip implantation in 1997. The dates are the easy part. What we mean by first, and whose work we decide counts, gets messier. ---- Chipped in São Paulo On November 11, 1997, Brazilian artist Eduardo Kac staged Time Capsule at Casa das Rosas in São Paulo. In front of seven family photographs, he inserted a passive identification transponder under the skin of his left ankle. The event was broadcast and participants could activate a scanner remotely to retrieve the number from the implant. Kac then registered himself in a U.S. database built to identi...