This guy claims to be the first cyborg: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ts/story.html?s=v/nm/19980825/ts/chip_2.html I don't think so. Anyone wearing a HMD connected to a belt computer is much closer to a cyborg than a guy who had a dummy transponder stuffed under his dermis. He's not part of the control loop. He's just got an indentichip. There's no man-machine interface in the implanted parts. This thing he's wearing might as well be in his pocket or on his badge-clip, like my access card for work. The "implanation" isn't novel, either. Pacemakers and vagus-nerve stimulators (for epileptics) have put microchips in people for decades. You can even reprogram some pacemakers using an inductive loop. I doubt this guy's chip has any programmable memory. And since when have researchers resumed conducting experiments on themselves? Don't universities and grant programs still have rules against that sort of thing? Don't they understand the moral of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"? --Blair "Funny, he doesn't look cyborgish."
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