From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Thu Dec 23 1999 - 16:41:29 MST
jeff nordahl writes:
> If a friend had one, I would even ask to borrow it for a few days for
> entertainment value, but to seriously monitor yourself all day long when you
> are not suffering from an illness seems like a rather introverted and
Illness is a relative term. How old are you, Jeff?
> counter-productive hobby. If one is doing a scientific study, fine, but I
I wouldn't mind wearing an array of realtime monitoring biosensors
linked to a data logger. At the very least it can give you valuable
trends and warn you against dangerous conditions you'd not notice
otherwise. It could be also certainly useful for playing with
biofeedback.
If coupled to a wearable and implanted remote-control drug pumps it
could be very useful indeed. A surge of epinephrine, opiates or
tranquilizers (or toxins, etc) could certainly come handy in critical
situations. (All mission critical stuff, so this will be not easy to
do).
This is all pre-nano, but still.
> can see this item converting regular Joe's into introverted health obsessed
> freaks. (could boost sales for medications) Perhaps the jacket should only
> be available through perscription???
>
> Perhaps my opinion is biased due to the fact that I have only been to a
> doctor once in my life (for a blood test to prove I had had the measals),
> and the only drugs that have been in my body are a few doses of marijuana
> and LSD from my Dead days. Oh, I tried a Tylenol once...
>From a certain age onward, I'd consider yearly medical checkups. If
you value your life, that is.
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