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> it's clunky and cobbled together You mean, just like the natural human body? Visit a nursing home.
by asciilifeform 17y ago
> it's clunky and cobbled together
You mean, just like the natural human body? Visit a nursing home.
- TrevorJ 17y agoAs clunky as we may be biologically, our technology rarely if ever approaches being as good as the biological equivalent that it seeks to improve on. Not saying it never will, just saying it hasn't yet. Even when we think we've beaten the system we usually end up paying for it in spades with some trouble that pops up someplace else. Things that work WITH our biology tend to be more elegant. (Laser eye surgery vs. chunky bits of optical glass in frames perched on our noses for instance).
- berntb 17y ago>>our technology rarely if ever approaches being as good as the biological equivalent that it seeks to improve on Well, in just a few decades airplanes will be faster than birds... :-) Integration tech/biology is a problem still, for a while.