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From the viewpoint of bioengineering, a silicon chip is a large and rather complex shard of glass. Inserting a silicon chip into the human brain involves a certain irreducible inelegance of scale. It's scarcely more elegant, relatively, than inserting a steam engine into the same tissue. It may be technically possible, but why should we even want to attempt such a thing...
...suspect is the increasingly archaic job description of "fighter pilot," or with some other aspect of telepresent combat, in which weapons in the field are remotely controlled by distant operators. At least there's still a certain macho frisson to be had in the idea of embedding a tactical shard of glass in your head, and crazier things, really, have been done in the name of king and country...
...very disappointing--we let it get away,"Teller said. "A few more timely hits and a coupleof balls fall in, and the game would have been atotally different story. We played hard, so it'shard to go back and second guess ourselves...
...intended to make their authors look aloof, mysterious and witty. They must tantalize the reader's curiosity but not give too much away. We find the ancient Greeks so fascinating because we only possess fragments of their work. A plan file is like a fragment of a personality, a shard from a giant amphora. It tempts us to put all the pieces together and reconstruct the person from the parts...
...talk with the team about stepping upand getting it done," Wheaton said. "[Stauffer] isjust getting into it. You sit out a year, and it'shard. I think the more games she has, the more shegets into her flow...