From: Ramez Naam (mez@apexnano.com)
Date: Mon Jul 28 2003 - 09:09:37 MDT
From: Brett Paatsch [mailto:bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au]
> I would be interested to hear what others think of
> Warwick's claims to have been the first cyborg and
> to what extent if at all his achievements in practice
> have been surpassed by others or by Warwick
> himself, now, less than a year since I, CYBORG,
> was written.
Warwick was certainly not the first human to have electrodes inserted
into his body. Back in 97, years before Warwick had an electrode
stuck in his arm, Phil Kennedy was inserting electrodes into the
brains of patients with ALS and giving them the ability to move
cursors on computer screens by thought. More than 20 years ago,
Dobelle implanted his first patient with a cortical visual prosthesis
producing useful vision. There are more than 80,000 people with
cochlear implants now - electrodes stimulating their auditory nerve.
Warwick's experiments, by contrast, are rather tame.
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