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-- Vern (bacon17@ibm.net), February 25, 2000
Not quite the first time. IBM had a project in which a neuron was grown onto a chip. I'll have to look in the old AI literature if anyone is demanding verification, but I remember the photograph of this little micro-cyborg.
-- mike in houston (mmorris67@hotmail.com), February 25, 2000.
hmmm. Thought the Unbegun held the exclusive patent on human life forms. Once again -- no wonder the Sun is acting up.
-- Squirrel Hunter (nuts@upina.cellrelaytower), February 25, 2000.
Oh Chip, was it good for you too?
-- (nemesis@awol.com), February 26, 2000.
WWhat wasn't included in the press release was that the chip/cell began communicating with the scientists and said:"WE ARE THE BORG. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED."
Maybe some of today's modern technolgy is a bit too modern for today. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
WW
-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), February 26, 2000.