From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 18:55:31 MST
Folks, this story is much too important for most of the
responses to be about nothing of more substance than whether the
URI is wrapped or not!
As we hopefully become increasingly augmented there are very
important questions of whether our augmentation will be
considered as much a part of us as our brain or eyes or will
always be considered mere equipment to be turned off, removed or
damaged at the discretion of any official or semi-official.
Will we be forced to implant such augmentation so that it can't
be removed to escape such mangling of ourselves? When humans
commonly wear hearing aids or protheses they are not asked afaik
to remove them at security checkpoints. When humans someday
wear as much gear as Dr. Mann will the effectively be partially
blinded, mentally slowed down, have some of their memory removed
and be effectively maimed at the discretion of a clueless world?
Or will enough of us understand the seriousness of the issue to
press for protection from such nastiness?
I hope Dr. Mann sues their asses off.
- samantha
Brian D Williams wrote:
> Steve Mann is a long time well known member of the wearables
> computer list out of MIT.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/technology/circuits/14MANN.html
> ?tntemail0=&pagewanted=print&position=top
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