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Do you have a computerized titanium alloy arm? A couple of implanted brain circuits? If yes, you may be a cyborg (or simply, borg).
I glimpse quickly on my wrist Communication Center. There is no incoming video mail. The stock market figures are positive, weather is fine. My vital signs are OK, except a cardio-warning about saturated fats having a potential negative impact in about 7 years, if I continue stuffing myself with artificial food (I will stop). Is my Communications Center qualifying me for a borg? Probably not. It is part of a category called wearable computers, or simply "wearables". I still have 27 minutes until my conference (used to be called "teleconference", but most of them are "tele" today, in 2008). I will meet with two strategic directors from London and Madrid, two public relations executives from Kuwait and Sudan, and one expert bot from New York. The bot's name is Chuck. As an A.I. robot, he won the prestigious Chicago Competition for Energy Strategic Studies, few years ago. I remember chatting and joking with him at that time. What a guy! My desk computer used to be quite cumbersome, back in 1998. Hard to believe. I had these two giant boxes occupying most of my desk space. The first one (named PC) was mostly empty. The other one, called "monitor", was not monitoring in fact anything. Not even my pulse. A quite blind piece of machinery. Now I feel comfortable with my round wall screen, especially after the company placed some virtual Greek baserelief around the room. It leaves my desk embarrassingly empty, however. I will call Chuck on the screen... "Hey, my good old friend Chuck, how are you?" [Chuck appears confused. He coughs a little] "Daniel, is it you? I could not see you immediately. These dumb connections..." "You sound human today." "Yeah, with all these human limitations..." "What happened? You have a cold?" "Not at all. Communication glitches. Can you believe, they've got some space debris hitting the International Space Station". "Give me some feedback on the oil prices." "Let's see... The old OPEC club used to have some impact. Now with all these fusion talks the price per barrel will probably be $5.70, by the end of September." "How's the weather in your place?" Go To Page: 1 2
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