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Dot-coms are tanking left and right with no end in site, and all I have to say about it is, Thank (insert your deity here).

http://www.visorcentral.com/page/0-4-76-6-4.htm

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What's wrong with implantable computers? Just think, it could monitor your blood sugar and your ATM card and tell you "uh-uh, you don't need those Krispy Kreme donuts you just bought, leave them at the office for some other schmuck to eat...".

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Maybe nothing if it can help me shed 20 pounds while still eating donuts. BTW...aren't you overseas??? Where did you get Krispy Kreme donuts?

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Overseas? Depends on where you are, I guess. I live in Houston.

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Oops...that is what you get for assuming...must have been the interesting runes in your signature that threw me off.

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Nifty. If I change my signature it changes *everywhere*. I'll bet you can't remember what it used to say.

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HEY! That's cool!

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What's wrong with implantable computers? Just think, it could monitor your blood sugar and your ATM card and tell you "uh-uh, you don't need those Krispy Kreme donuts you just bought, leave them at the office for some other schmuck to eat...".

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What's wrong with it.. While all your points are very valid and good, some marketing moron will start putting ad banners in your head, "track" what you think, and target market your brain.. that's the problem..

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Neal Stephenson, "The Diamond Age", a guy gets his implants invaded by a virus that ran ads for roach motels in 1/4 of his field of view until he comitted suicide.

The difference is, I don't plan on buying any implants running Windows.

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HEY! That's cool!

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Originally posted by bkbk
...I'd suggest reading up on Ray Kurzweil's and Bill Joy's recent thougts on this and other subjects.

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Wow. Great article. I've been neglecting the articles on VC for too long...

Nice work. I especially like your term "internet pruning stage"...much more accurate than the whole "dot-com crash".

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and even tried web personal ads (I have a doozey of a story)

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My Dating Story

So I tried out the net dating thing...through the web personals. Met someone...had a whirlwind romance...got engaged.

Then was talking with a friend who was not having such a good time of it and I recommended dating via the web. So we went to a personals site and I pulled up people who fit my interests...so that I could show him how it was done. Of the hundreds of people who came back from the search I selected one.

I found it strange that her personal ad sounded a lot like my fiance...and I thought...hmmm I'll read on. The person described their favorite date...and it was the last date we were on (where I proposed)...her last movie was a movie she saw with me...and so on and so on...all things we had done together...

So I did a little detective work...and it turned out she was seeing a lot of different people while we were engaged. So...that was the last personal ad I ever took part in.

I don't recommend it.

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Implants...

Computer implants would be interesting, but how would you upgrade them? I don't want any trap doors on my skull.

What if they crash, and as a developer's backdoor, release hormones that coincidentally cause the effect of a surpository?

And if you don't want it to ring, can you turn it to vibrate mode?

If they run Linux, will you count penguins as you fall asleep, while running a wireless LAN server from your brain? And if X doesn't support your brain driver, does it halt in command prompt mode?

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Rather have it halt in "command prompt mode" than bluescreening. "Sorry, I'll skip on the 3-d movie, my left eye is full of hex dumps".

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