In this installment of the Future Grind podcast host Ryan O’Shea speaks with Amanda Plimpton, the Chief Operations Officer for Livestock Labs. Livestock Labs is a tech startup that is creating implantable devices to track the health and wellness of cattle. They spun out of the work of Grindhouse Wetware, a collective focused on human enhancement, and they hope to soon return to the human augmentation space. Amanda has previously spoken DEF CON’s Biohacking Village and is well known for her work in the biohacking and human augmentation community.

They discuss the path to market for implantable and augmentative devices, the balance between valuing open source and protecting intellectual property, the growth of the human augmentation community, and more.

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