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- Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
- Subject: Re: robots in our bodies
- Message-ID: <ALANB.92Nov19184226@catalina.sdl.mdcbbs.com>
- From: alanb@sdl.mdcbbs.com (Alan Braggins)
- Date: 19 Nov 92 17:42:26 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.223231.11974@bsu-ucs> <5946@balrog.ctron.com>
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- In-reply-to: smith@ctron.com's message of 17 Nov 92 15:19:01 GMT
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- >>>>> On 17 Nov 92 15:19:01 GMT, smith@ctron.com (Lawrence C Smith) said:
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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.
- [..]
- > You might try starting this thread in comp.risks for some real analysis.
-
- Or look in sci.nanotechnology. For some articles on mind-control in the
- opposite direction, there were some recent posts on direct neural interfaces
- in sci.virtual worlds. Nanobots in the brain might make such sensors easier
- to make or more accurate.
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