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Laser Surgery Goes Online
Ignat writes "Scientists in Australia successfully performed a laser surgery in a Southern California laboratory via the Internet. RoboLase, the new technology used showed that realtime surgeries can be performed from distant locations. Scientists from UC Irvine, UC San Diego and the University of Queensland used RoboLase to produce surgical holes in a distinct pattern of less than one micron in diameter (1/1000th of a millimeter) in single cells."
Yeah, this means it won't be long before a computer worm can really, directly kill someone ;-/
I would imagine if some packets were lost, or lag? It is inevitable, would you really want to risk it with that?
Dude i'm not a racist, have a sense of humor man. Also outsourcing is a very real problem and is really screwing up our economy.
Or, perhaps, he's just pissed that his job, his American-based job, is being sent to India.
No offense to the Indians, but if they are just as capable as we are at doing our jobs, let them do their jobs in their country. Last I recall, their country isn't in the best of state...
Meanwhile unemployement here suffers due to us being out jobs, and well, there's really no solution for us. Companies just want to lower their bottom lines, and the best way to do that is fire employees and either pay a machine to do the work, or pay someone way, way less for it.
I'm not racist; I have many good friends who are Indian, Chinese, Slovic, and other races, and I have no problem with them being here in America working. My problem comes when the jobs here are being moved out of our country. We've almost reversed our position from the industrial revolution, when people would migrate here just to work. And we're losing our tech crown because nobody's willing to innovate because it costs too much. These are the things that piss us off, and it's not about racism. If you want to talk about hidden racism, go talk to one of the news *coughFOXcough* networks talking about the Middle East situtation.
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is." G.W.Bush
Tell me - would any other country, rich or poor, welcome foreign citizens to take over a large portion of its jobs? I think there's a common attitude across the planet to secure jobs for the "tribe."
Advice for my fellow geeks: before seeking out that threesome you dream of, you might see what a TWOsome is like first.
I see "remote surgery" and even AI-assisted remote surgery as the future for battlefields, outer space, and other conditions where surgery must be done quickly but the doctor cannot get to the operating room.
However, latency and quality-of-service issues will need to be addressed before this is anything more than experimental.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Cutting and sewing will probably be the last things outsourced, but you know what? Medical care is currently so expensive that many people in some parts of the world simply go without. Better to take your chances than die for sure.
The US invented the internet and promotes free trade/globalization. What do you expect to happen?
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
They poked tiny holes into cells with a laser. Calling that "cell surgery" doesn't make it surgery; it's just operating a scientific instrument remotely over the Internet. People have been doing that for years.
I'd let anyone into the U.S. on two conditions. First, they are not an evil person (criminal, terrorist etc). Second, they have no rights to any free societal financial assistance (i.e. welfare, free treatment in the E.R., medicare, education etc.) for a substantial period of time (perhaps 10-15 years).
Sure, this would result in lower salaries in the U.S., but at least the U.S. would remain relevant by having a base of intellectual capital on a par with the "best of the best" among other countries. It also may wake up our public education system in this country before it's too late (although, I fear, it's already too late because by the time it is repaired, the game will be over).
Why is there an "insightful" mod and why isn't it "-1"? If I wanted insight, I wouldn't be reading