http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_358000/358822.stm

Do you suppose this might have known what comes after 1999?

Hallyx

"True excellence inspires pleasure and awe in the untalented, and envy and hate in the mildly talented." - Harlan Ellison

-- Hallyx (Hallyx@aol.com), June 05, 1999

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-- Mike Lang (webflier@erols.com), June 05, 1999.

Over the years several science-fiction stories have beeen based on, or have used peripherally, the notion of human brains linked in a neural net. Sometimes remaining in the original body, sometimes detached in an artificial medium. It can get pretty grim. I suppose using leeches is as good a way as any to begin that journey.

Wouldn't it be nice if we decided not to go there.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), June 05, 1999.

Yes Tom it would be nice. It may even be universally crucial. I believe a certain Angel once tried to attain a similar pursuit, and we know where that lead, and still leads!

-- unspun@lright (mikeymac@uswest.net), June 06, 1999.

"A computer made of neurons taken from leeches has been created by US scientists.

"At the moment, the device can perform simple sums - the team calls the novel calculator the "leech-ulator".

"But their aim is to devise a new generation of fast and flexible computers that can work out for themselves how to solve a problem, rather than having to be told exactly what to do. "

My first thought was, "Watch out, IRS agents. Combine a 'leech- ulator' with a flat tax, you could be outa work."

The final paragraph seems to promise even greater upheavals in federal employment.

-- jor-el (jor-el@krypton.uni), June 07, 1999.

-- treading litely (rs@marketwatch.com), June 07, 1999.