DARPA is at it again. But this time I like what they’re doing. This time I can see an application that doesn’t end in holocaust.
It’s supposed to be for all of those soldiers who’ve had limbs blown off. But let’s face it. The government doesn’t really give a shit about wounded soldiers. I can’t honestly see them putting a tech this valuable on them. It’s cheaper to send them home and let them beg in the streets.
So these medical robot parts will be for the people who can afford them, need them and who have the sway to get them. (Dick Cheney?) In time, I hope that these sorts of techs will not just be for the wounded and corpulent but become a voluntary upgrade. Just like fake boobs or penile implants. We shouldn’t be rewarding people for getting their limbs blown off. That sounds like communism to me.
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May 18, 2006 at 1:00 am (UTC -5)
Who knows, maybe Cheney already has some of these robo-parts. I mean I think we’ve all suspected he’s part cyborg.
Grumpy Owl
May 18, 2006 at 1:40 am (UTC -5)
Apparently, when it comes to human enchancing technology, “President Bush has been briefed about it in exhaustive detail.” (New Scientist May 13-19, 2006, Better Than Human Special Report.) So if Bush has heard about it, Cheney has probably done it.