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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Computers are changing humans<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…The easy answer involves a collaborator watching the game, so the device itself need only relay information to the wearer…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Perhaps. I thought of one that might work: using orthodontic bands around molars 17 and 32 (or perhaps 18 and 33 if the wisdom teeth are not yet present) the player could perhaps enter the requisite 12 bits using the tongue. Bluetooth could send the signal to the computing device perhaps.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Are there Bluetooth hipsters among us who can tell us if that signal could be detected? I would think it could.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> >…A harder answer involves fine control of groin muscles, of the sort that should likely not be detailed on this list…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ja. Although it could be enormously entertaining and even informative, such a discussion could distract from the subject at hand. Chess followers are loving all this of course, or would be if it didn’t ring an ominous death knell for our beloved sport, as well as carry discomforting implications for mankind in general.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>