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The wide separation between whats done and whats talked about makes the topic interesting. The technology isn't here yet and may never arrive, most of it's thi
by VLM 9y ago
The wide separation between whats done and whats talked about makes the topic interesting. The technology isn't here yet and may never arrive, most of it's thinly veiled magickal fanfic. So they play with magnets instead.
In the example of the pacemaker, it would be like techies 50 years ago talking about how cool a computer controlled pacemaker would be, while they implant a 12AT7 dual triode vacuum tube in their belly doing roughly nothing.
- ethbro 9y agoTrue, but I think it's also somewhat disheartening (tone in article) to compare the present to only the "sci-fi exemplars" of the tech. Yes, it's depressing we don't have artificial limbs that are superior to biological ones. But, it's amazing and inspiration that we do have micro pacemakers and blood monitors and portable defibrillators today! IOW, don't blind oneself to the future forest because the actual trees aren't the species you were expecting.
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