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Sunday, November 10, 2002
Voices in Your Head? Check That Chip in Your Arm - MATT RICHTEL
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/10/technology/10SLAS.html ... This nascent fusion of corpus and computer may pave the way for further integration of circuitry and self. After all, things can become only so convenient if we wear or carry tiny headsets, radios, televisions, phones and pagers. If silicon, not silicone, becomes the favored implant of the future, we could bridge the final divide that keeps us from being truly wired. Think of the applications: e-mail transmitters lodged under your skin; remote controls that let you change the channel with a thumb click; global positioning systems that tell you, your spouse and your government where you are at every moment.
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