Rather than IC's implanted in humans, I foresee IC's incorporating biological material such as neuron cells. Killing a device or product will take on a whole new meaning! Mike Hopkins KeyTek
-----Original Message----- From: Kazimier Gawrzyjal [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 1:56 PM To: 'Mel Pedersen'; 'Barry Ma'; EMC-PSTC Subject: RE: Implanted IC in brain Greetings, Interesting topic.... Personally if forced to choose, I'd place my money on the recent advances announced by the genetics community to get my great-grand kids to the "enhanced" state of humanity as opposed to a chip set in the old noodle....my thoughts will continue to be my own and not accessible by the crackers of tomorrow via the wireless web concept. Seems some form of operating system would be required to get the web interface running....anyone have that much faith in the existing options today as to load up some software in your noggin?? Hopefully airline pilots will be excluded from this vision of the future else face at least one crash per week.....Can you go to "Bob's Headshop" for some aftermarket knock-off parts? Does UL 1950 cl. 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 allow for added abnormals? My 2 Cents and not those of my current employer. Kaz Gawrzyjal Safety Guy nortel networks [email protected] [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Mel Pedersen [ mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 10:54 AM To: 'Barry Ma'; EMC-PSTC Subject: RE: Implanted IC in brain Hello: I believe we should consider what precedents the Medical Equipment community has laid out here....at least as a start....IEC 60601, FDA regs, etc.... these address safety concerns for implanted. Just my humble thoughts on the matter. - Mel -----Original Message----- From: Barry Ma [ mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 7:14 PM To: EMC-PSTC Subject: Implanted IC in brain Hi, It seems not a pure friction to implant intelligent IC into human brains. Some people made prediction about this new breed of human being. Some are talking about downloading certain virtual sense from Internet. ... Let's put aside the feasibility and focus only on related EMC/Safety concerns. 1. If there going to be a wireless access from human brain to Internet, do we have the same Safety concern as cellular phone? 2. It would also be possible to directly communicate each other via brain ICs. We don't have to exchange thoughts by means of any language (spoken and written) or eye contact. ... Should we have EMC standards to regulate the emission level of brain waves and immunity capability for brain ICs? Thanks. Best Regards, Barry Ma <[email protected]> ANRITSU www.anritsu.com Morgan Hill, CA 95037 Tel. 408-778-2000 x 4465 _______________________________________________________________________ $1 million in prizes! 20 daily instant winners. AltaVista Rewards: Click here to win! http://shopping.altavista.com/e.sdc?e=3 <http://shopping.altavista.com/e.sdc?e=3> _______________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: [email protected] Michael Garretson: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: [email protected] Michael Garretson: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected]
