And y'all are worried about legacy IT stuff like y2k ! Tsk !

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_503000/503552.stm

-- Count Vronsky (vronsky@anna.lit), November 04, 1999

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A cybernetics expert is planning to hand over control of his body to a computer in the latest of his high profile experiments. Professor Kevin Warwick is to have a silicon implant inserted in his arm in an attempt to find out whether the computer will be able to move his limbs by copying signals from his brain. And he is considering a similar experiment to see if a computer could control his emotions. It follows an experiment last year in which the Reading University scientist had a chip put in his arm to assess whether a computer could follow his movements around the university. Following the success of that experiment, Professor Warwick, no stranger to controversy, is connecting his nervous system to a computer. He hopes that when he moves, the chip will intercept the relevant signals from his brain and transmit them to a computer. The computer will then return the signals to see if the professor's limbs move. The BBC's Mike Thomson: "Professor Warwick is no stranger to controversial surgery" And he is planning to go even further with brain signals which express emotion so the computer can direct his moods as well.

-- Count Vronsky (vronsky@anna.lit), November 04, 1999.

and some people think we are crazy.

-- tt (cuddluppy@yahoo.com), November 04, 1999.

Gawd, Count, how the hell do you FIND all these thing??!!!!!

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), November 04, 1999.

It might sound funny, but imagine if you were paralysed. Professor Warwick's work could potentially lead to the development of computers to help you move around. Professor Warwick is a well known self publicist, but maybe some of his research could prove useful in the medical field.

-- a programmer (a@programmer.com), November 04, 1999.

"Control of his emotions..."

Wonderful, if you to find yourself in lust with a Sun workstation... (Nothing wrong with Sun workstations, but I wouldn't want to marry one!)

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), November 04, 1999.