Lee Adamson wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Peter Giblin (THOMASMILLER) wrote: > > According to PCWeek (UK), Professor Warwick of Reading University > > Cybernetics department became the world's first cyborg. > <snip> > > Back to the ol' survelliance argument... > > This kind of scares me... Think of what it would be like if in 20 years > or so, everyone had something like this (for Big Brother's benefit, of > course). Yeah, it'd be great; I wouldn't have to whip out my grocery store card, driver's license, creditcard, etc. to go shopping. If you keep the signal strength down, they probably wont be able to track you unless you get near a detector (probably can't see you with a satelite). Besides, if you're really paranoid you can turn it off. It's your body, unless microsoft owns that chip, you can do anything you want with it. Just keep one of those nasal extractors that Arnold used in Total Recall. ;-) -Paul -- R. Paul McCarty / DARS Coordinator // x52059 317 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 Computers don't make errors; what they do, they do on purpose.-Dale/KOTH -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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