Artificial heart?
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I think I have mixed feelings about this, what are your thoughts on it?
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no different to an arm or a leg (except it’s inside obviously) just the next logical step.
If it were one of my family…I,d try anything.
That device will only be available to the very rich so its of little concern to most of us.
I think everyone used to think that about most treatments. reality is that if something really saves lives..it usually becomes available..
Science is great…
Keep a look out for increasing attempts to integrate humans with machines/computers, it is happening very subtly.
I think in your case ,Breton ninja ,it has obviously already happened.
The Borg will assimilate us all.
Imagine if an enemy could just hack into it and turn it off!! Or would that only happen in a sci-fi movie?
It could easily happen in real life. Literally hundreds of systems that are connected to the internet have been hacked and manipulated either for financial gain or sheer disruption. From hacking military command systems, banking transactions, data bases containing credit card details to microphones and cameras on TVs and other “smart” devices for spying and blackmail. The latest I read about was the hacking of an internet connected personal chastity device. The hacker managed to remotely lock the devices and send emails demanding ransoms to unlock them.
When my heart wishes to beat no more, I shall happily shuffle of this mortal coil and embrace the sleep of death. Someone else can have my place. As much as I love life, the idea of prolonging it simply because we can, has no appeal to me. To quote Deepak Chopra, “the intention to live as long as possible isn’t one of the mind’s best intentions, because quantity isn’t the same as quantity.”
Just not too soon …we all hope!
mind you the pork might get me!
Keep a look out for increasing attempts to integrate humans with machines/computers, it is happening very subtly.
This is happening all the time, a friend of our’s who recent died from an unrelated problem also suffered from heart disease that caused his heart to stop beating. He had a machine implanted in his chest that had the ability to detect when this happened and it would give him a shock which would restart his heart. As I understand it the machine in his chest was in contact with a hospital in France via some sort of technology which actually activated the stimulus that his heart needed, technology is truly amazing if not a little bewildering.
Quantity isn’t the same as quality is what I meant to write, of course.
mind you the pork might get me!
The pork will certainly get the pigs, Marmite, but you should be safe.
Do take care if you’re ever on the coast around Saint Brieuc though, where toxic green algae has been a problem for the last 50 years or so. There have been a number of deaths over the years, both animal and human, caused by hydrogen sulphide given off by the decomposing seaweed. The main culprit is the excessive amount of nitrates produced from intensive agriculture, including……those intensive pig concentration camps. So if you’re in the wrong place at the wrong time, the pork could indirectly get you!
I was there once …managed to escape un greened.
could do with an escape to the sea …getting a bit housebound today..
I think another danger to watch out for is technology developing so fast, humans cannot keep up, and will start to be made redundant from certain jobs. Fighter pilots, airline pilots, taxi drivers,it’s starting to happen.
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