<div class="gmail_quote">2011/9/2 Samantha Atkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sjatkins@mac.com">sjatkins@mac.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">Personally I want to replace biological components of my body with
non-biological alternatives as fast as good alternatives exist and I
can legally (or successful black market) and financially do so. <br></div></blockquote><div><br>Personally I think that at the time the distinction between biological and "un-biological" will have blurred significantly. <br>
<br>In fact, when somebody speaks of a "transfer to silicon", I use to point out that if current trends in the science of materials and computer engineering with their current concentration on carbon (see under biochips, nanotubes, etc.) are any indication of the future, we are more likely to be met by our machines in the opposite direction. :-)<br>
<br></div></div>--<br>Stefano Vaj<br>