The movie is Johnny Mnemonic. (He had to at times erase part of his childhood memories to store all the data.) (I'd give the movie a C-. It was cool concept - but it just didn't deliver.)
What I'd really like to see... In the 1990's AT&T had an ad, showing someone pushing a grocery cart full of groceries right thru a scanner and then the total would be calculated - no need to empty the cart. I guess the idea was RFID tags on each package. That was in the 1990s - Twenty years later and we're still buying groceries the same dumb way - and I hate waiting in line to buy my food! What happened? On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:08 PM, S. Dale Morrey <[email protected]> wrote: > Sometime ago there was a movie about a guy who had his brain upgraded with > a computer so he could be a courier for sensistive information. A coworker > and I were discussing this and it lead to an interesting discussion about > the future of healthcare where many people have various implants. > My thinking is that the risk of infection & rejection are pretty high and > will remain so. My coworker disagreed and cited some example he had read > somewhere about a guy who had implanted himself with an rfid capsule. > I realize this is totally offtopic, but does anyone know about this? I > tried googling everything I could think of related to it and found no info. > > I mean if this were the case then you would think folks would be implanting > themselves with all kinds of stuff to make life easier. For instance, it > would sure cut down on bitcoin theft if your bitcoin wallet was on a > microsd card embedded somewhere on your body right? > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
