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In France, a Second Patient Receives Permanent Artificial Heart
Jason Koebler (3528235) writes One of the most important goals of transhumanist medicine—possessing a perfectly healthy heart—has so far remained elusive. This week, we came a step closer when for the second time ever, a French company implanted a permanent artificial heart in a patient. More than just pumping blood, future artificial hearts will bring numerous other advantages with them. They will have computer chips and wi-fi capacity built into them. We'll control our hearts with our smart phones, tuning down its pumping capacity when we want to sleep, or tuning it up when we want to run marathons. The patient who received the first of these hearts, though he survived for 76 days, died after the heart "stopped after a short circuit, although the exact reasons behind the death were still unknown."
With wifi/bluetooth capability I feel like there's not anything that could possibly go wrong. It will be important to have it connect to the cloud in order to retrieve heart rate profiles for the day.
If the artificial heart stops, would that count as a "Blue Face of Death"?
I don't have any problems if it was broadcasting data, but if it's a 2-way communication (at layer 1) then they can fuck right off.
If you want to communicate, plug something in (or use near-field etc)
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
If the implanted device is running an IPv6-only stack, nobody will be able to talk to it for years and years. I don't expect to see broad rollout of pure IPv6 in my lifetime.
They are trying to reproduce the bug.
Even if you can fix our hearts and our telomeres and the cancer, there are all kinds of cognitive problems associated with old age - Alzheimer's and plain ol' AAMI.
So even if you can keep your 20s body into old age, at some point you'll be unable to remember things that happened recently such as whether you put your pants on this morning, and of course to check that you're wearing pants before you leave the house. Having a prime physique will make it much less horrifying for innocent bystanders, but still...
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
"Have you tried turning it off and back on again?"
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Kinda obvious that, it's because your lifetime ends at the moment the first IPv6-connected hacker connects to your heart.