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- From: smith@ctron.com (Lawrence C Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
- Subject: Re: robots in our bodies
- Message-ID: <5946@balrog.ctron.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:19:01 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.223231.11974@bsu-ucs>
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- In article <1992Nov16.223231.11974@bsu-ucs>, 00jhritter@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
- >I have been hearing a lot lately about the possibly that some day robots will
- >become so small that they could be injected into the blood stream to fight
- >diseases or clean out clogged artieries. Does any think this is possible?
- >Does any think this could lead to mind control? How would this effect our
- >future? Please reply, my grade depends on it!!
-
- What a bizarre post. If your _grade_ depends on it, run, don't walk, to
- your nearest purveyor of quality reading material and obtain the tome:
- "Engines of Creation" by Eric Drexler. it contains a marvelous summary
- of nano-technology, including the microbots to which you refer. Such
- devices would be most useful as medical aids, but for "mind-control" they
- would be quite useless. It might be possible to program them to cause
- unendurable pain if you disobey orders, but we have compulsion and torture
- already - even by remote control, so I expect that risk is pretty minimal.
- You might try starting this thread in comp.risks for some real analysis.
-
- Larry Smith (smith@ctron.com) No, I don't speak for Cabletron. Need you ask?
- -
- Liberty is not the freedom to do whatever we want,
- it is the freedom to do whatever we are able.
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