We need fixing and wellness tells us that this fix can come from within, if we find the right tools, or listen to the right gurus. Self-optimisation challenges the idea that we are trapped in our own bodies – instead, our bodies can be upgraded like smartphones, if we just commit to the change. By 2030 we will all be ‘regularly going into body shops for upgrades’,7 insists the transhumanist campaigner Zoltan Istvan.
