Re: Cyborgs and future society

On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 22:51:42 -0700, "Robert A. Woodward"
<robertaw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <e30l6c$ft2$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
David A Molnar <dmolnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

r.rice@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
was less stuff creating electromagnetic noise, so it was relatively
easy to move things that interfered away from each other. As tech
gets more common, this is going to be harder to do. And there's only
so much shielding you can do on your equipment, especially if your
cyber implants need to communicate remotely.

Any thoughts on this?

<SNIP of possible other problems>

and you can imagine hospitals having trouble with, say, a cyborg that
happened to be in a car crash and isn't awake to tell them how to safely
remove the augments.

ObSF: David Weber's _The Path of the Fury_ (chapter 2 - BTW,
chapter 34 of the expanded version _In Fury Born): "You're lucky
your man's still alive, Doctor". What happens when a civilian
medical team discovers that they were treating a cyber-enhanced
supersoldier.

Actually, the other possibility is striking me as amusing right now:
"Please, Mr. Cyborg, could you go stand on the other side of the room?
You're messing with my cell phone."

Rebecca
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