Meet the Human Battery, a New Source of "Green" Energy

The World Economic Forum has an ambition to transform people into batteries to power electronic devices and urban development.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• The concept of Human Battery puts the transhumanist slogan about the need to merge with machines — or be left behind in the evolution of the human species — in a sinister context

• The World Economic Forum has an ambition to transform people into batteries to power electronic devices and urban development

• “Parasitic harvesting” [sic] is a m…