“Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body.

Harbisson contrasts the current wave of innovation—software built for external devices—with a more radical horizon: technology integrated into the human organism. The quote reflects his broader cyborg-activist stance that the body can become a platform for “apps” (new senses, capabilities, and interfaces) rather than merely a user of gadgets. It also implies a shift in identity and agency: instead of being mediated by phones, humans may directly perceive, record, and communicate through implanted or wearable systems. The excitement he predicts is both creative and ethical, pointing to new forms of art, perception, and selfhood, alongside questions about autonomy, access, and what counts as “human.”