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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I haven't really followed the development of
implant technology much</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>lately, about the last time I read up on it
semi-seriously was when</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I bought a copy of Kevin Warwicks,
I Cyborg.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Newspapers tend to report operations,
the implantation part, because</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>its newsworthy, but perhaps more important are how
long the implants</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>continue to work. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the case of Warwick's implants, over time,
a matter of months, the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>number of connections to his
implant increasingly ceased to work. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think a key thing to watch with implanted chips
etc will be how long</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>they continue to operate once installed and whether
or how soon </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>biological immune </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>responses </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>etc eventually stop them from
working.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brett Paatsch</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>