Gates Says No to Implants

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday July 3, 2005 @03:27AM 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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Re:soon... by mfh · 2005-07-03 03:31 · Score: 0, Troll

Image playing Homeworld with that fancy all-sensory-input-output device.

Video games do propel technology. But open source propels it further, IMHO.

So what if Bill Gates says no, FOR HIMSELF. But that does NOT mean Microsoft won't persue implant technology patents in the future.

This got me thinking... and what exactly is the prognosis for Open Source implants? Who wants to go first on the test bed? This ain't no operating system... testing could result in deaths and a lot of pain.

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