From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sun Mar 30 2003 - 11:10:41 MST
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 09:33:13AM -0800, Hal Finney wrote:
>
> It's a very strange article, because it seems to me that the most exciting
> and remarkable aspect of this technology would be that it fuels itself
> from your blood just like your own cells do. Yet they never mention this,
> they just kind of dance around and hint at it. Bizarre.
It is probably because it is still a total prototype (like the
hippocampus chip). It probably doesn't work very well yet, and the
inventors did not allow their university press person to say that it
would work on blood. Better be careful about what you say, since the
details of making it all biocompatible might be hard.
I wonder how to prevent clogging from cells and other gunk? Blood has
always struck me as awfully messy, I would prefer to have something
like the neat railway bundles of Freita's nanocirculatory system.
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