http://www.msnbc.com/news/default.asp

-- Vern (bacon17@ibm.net), February 25, 2000

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Not quite the first time. IBM had a project in which a neuron was grown onto a chip. I'll have to look in the old AI literature if anyone is demanding verification, but I remember the photograph of this little micro-cyborg.

-- mike in houston (mmorris67@hotmail.com), February 25, 2000.

hmmm. Thought the Unbegun held the exclusive patent on human life forms. Once again -- no wonder the Sun is acting up.

-- Squirrel Hunter (nuts@upina.cellrelaytower), February 25, 2000.

Oh Chip, was it good for you too?

-- (nemesis@awol.com), February 26, 2000.

WWhat wasn't included in the press release was that the chip/cell began communicating with the scientists and said:

"WE ARE THE BORG. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED."

Maybe some of today's modern technolgy is a bit too modern for today. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

WW

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), February 26, 2000.