Jameson Rich Jameson Rich is a writer, filmmaker, and video editor based in Brooklyn. He writes primarily on disability and culture.

Electric Bodies | Medical Technology Takes Over

Jameson Rich

We begin in a forest. The camera pushes through a clutch of trees to a clearing that reveals a drop into a ravine. “The owner of this watch has taken a hard fall,” Siri says. We’re listening in, apparently, on an automated 911 call on behalf of Bob B., who crashed while mountain biking and went unconscious. She provides “an estimated search radius of 41 meters” in her familiar clipped...