Monday, August 3, 2009

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD; OR REPLACE

We are gradually moving towards the goal of being able to replace all our parts with the result being man will, in the future, If it can't be made made, we are settling for transplanted organs though many tissues are able to replaced with man-made material.

It used to be many years before we were able to believe that robots could be made to do what they do, that artificial intelligence can make talking to a computer in a robot seem pretty, frighteningly eerie. Will I ever live to see the day a person can have more replacement parts than original equipment? At the rate science is developing new stuff, who knows?

Science has come far. They have also finally realized that not all subjects are built the same way. I, for example, am an overweight, short woman. A knee that would on a man 6'4" tall would hardly fit me. My friends who are clearly more-up-to date think that it will be a good thing for our world and its inhabitants.

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