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Gates Says No to Implants

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the do-i-need-a-new-topic-icon-now dept.

Tamas Feher from Hungary writes "The future of Slashdot's infamous Borg Bill thumbnail image may be in jeopardy after Microsoft founder William H. Gates said technology will one day allow computer implants - but hardwiring's not for him. 'One of the guys that works at Microsoft... always says to me 'I'm ready, plug me in,"' Gates said Friday at a Microsoft seminar in Singapore when he was asked whether computers would ever be implanted in the human brain. "I don't feel quite the same way. I'm happy to have the computer over there and I'm over here.' "

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 1, Redundant

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  2. Oh come on, he should know this... by numbski · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Resistance is futile.

    (and it was repeated, all thread long, amen.)

    --

    Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).

  3. No kidding! by agraupe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wouldn't want anything running Windows to be implanted in me either!

  4. In 2020 by ServeYourWorld · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In 2020 the blue screen of death could mean just that!

  5. Duh! by OrbNobz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Do you really think he'd want M$ software running in his head?
    It's the Gates Paradox: He would actually like to have a head-computer, but he would like it to run Linux, except, he would never admit to it, so he says, "I don't want it".

    - OrbNobz
    Time travel? Well beam me up Scotty.