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Re: The First Genuine Cyborg?

From: "R. Paul McCarty" <>
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 12:39:32 +0000

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
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