To quote Zager and Evans - see http://gunther.simplenet.com/v/data/intheyea.htm
"In the year 5555
Your arms hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine's doing that for you"
Peter
At 08:44 4/07/01 +1000, Chirgwin, Richard wrote:
>"One day, humankind will evolve into a finger and a button, and anytime the
>finger wants anything, it will press the button. And that will be the end of
>humankind, because the finger will be too damn lazy to press the button." -
>Theodore Sturgeon
>
>RC
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rick Welykochy [mailto:rick@praxis.com.au]
>Sent: Tuesday, 3 July 2001 21:16
>To: link@www.anu.edu.au
>Subject: Re: [LINK] Today's cyborgs get an eyeful
>
>
>Tony Barry wrote:
> >
> > Extracted item for information.
> >
> > Source:Edupage, July 2, 2001
> > - - - - -
> > TODAY'S CYBORGS GET AN EYEFUL
> > New wearable computers and retinal scanning devices are enabling
> > more people to adopt a "connected" lifestyle. Thad Starner, an
> > assistant professor of computer science at Georgia Tech, uses a
> > wearable device composed of a mini-monitor mounted on his
> > eyeglasses and a portable computer keyboard that he needs only
> > one hand to operate. Another cyborg pioneer, Steve Mann of the
> > University of Toronto, uses a viewing device called the Eye Tap,
> > which allows other people to see what he sees and enter in data
> > that appears superimposed on his vision. Mann said his wife
> > helps him buy the correct groceries at the supermarket through
> > the device by "scribbling" on his retina. Many on the forefront
> > of wearable computer technology are quick to point out that
> > pervasive computing is much closer than most realize and that the
> > popularization of PDAs, cell phones, and computerized health aids
> > is taken for granted as progress toward real cybernetics.
>
>By the middle of this century, the cybernauts will be puzzling how
>human beings ever managed to compose a shopping list, hunt for food
>in supermarkets, feed themselves, obtain news information, communicate
>with one another and engage in sexual activity without the aid of
>requisite cyber componentry.
>
>Just as today's kids wonder how a human being could ever multiply
>numbers or reckon transcendental functions without a calculator.
>Or, heaven forbid, live without a cellphone.
>
>More grist for the Shockwave mill on the ABC.
>
>-rickw
>
>
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>
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> - American food product label
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