X-Message-Number: 18851
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:18:12 -0800
From: James Bryan Swayze <>
Subject: Alleged first cyborg
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The folllowing article claims the first cyborg has been created. Actually, by 
definition, I am already a cyborg but I suppose these folks feel that delving 
further into the nervous system with the use of cybernetic computer systems 
attached to nerves is more cyborg than others but still others may argue this

point. As I understand it a cyborg merely is someone that requires technology to
live. This could include many of us already.

Merriam Webster's dictionary says:

One entry found for cyborg.

Main Entry: cy borg
Pronunciation: 'sI-"borg
Function: noun
Etymology: cybernetic + organism
Date: 1960
: a bionic human


I have an implanted computer controlled pump that drips continuously a metered 
dose of a drug into my spine to control contractures and the resulting pain from
them. Without it my blood pressure climbs to exceedingly dangerous levels and 
would likely have killed me already. I literaly could not live without

it and therefore by the definition I came across once I am a cyborg. However, 
that's of little consequence concerning the below article that is interesting on
it's own merits.



http://dailynews.netscape.com/dailynews/cnn/story_2.tmpl?story=2002032210065001126809&shortdate=0322

Scientists test first human cyborg CNN.com

Friday, March 22, 2002

Excerpt 1

"A British university professor has been fitted with cyborg technology enabling 
his nervous system to be linked to a computer. The ground-breaking surgery on 
Professor Kevin Warwick effectively makes him the world's first cyborg -- part 
human, part machine."

Excerpt 2

"Surgeons implanted a silicon square about 3mm wide into an incision in 
Warwick's left wrist and attached its 100 electrodes, each as thin as a hair, 
into the median nerve."

James
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My website: http://www.geocities.com/~davidpascal/swayze/

A collection of photos of me and some of my artwork:
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4292752723&code=2039335&mode=invite


A radio interview on Dr. J's ChangeSurfer Radio program with me and the father 
of cryonics Prof. Robert Ettinger, author of "The Prospect of Immortality":
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=3728


A religion I actually recommend: 
http://uk.geocities.com/venturist2001/index.html

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