Re: Is Biowire in Your Future?

From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 00:28:10 MST

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    Grrr... I *hate* when that happens.

    (Note to self: *Never* post *anything* on April 1st!!)

    Sorry for wasting the bandwidth simply to demonstrate that, once again, I'm
    the biggest April fool on the list.

    -Zero

    >From: Cory Przybyla <recherchetenet@yahoo.com>
    >Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
    >To: extropians@extropy.org
    >Subject: Re: Is Biowire in Your Future?
    >Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 19:33:06 -0800 (PST)
    >
    >there's a link in the article that reads
    >"related news: Weblog: Tools for April Fools"
    >
    >Sorry. Dissapointed I know you are. (In case those
    >from other countries don't have this 'holiday' it's
    >the first of April where pranks and spoofs are the
    >norm).
    >
    >--- Zero Powers <zero_powers@hotmail.com> wrote:
    > > TODAY THE EIEIO standard-setting body is scheduled
    > > to release the first
    > > draft of the 40103a standard for computer hardware
    > > meant to be implanted in
    > > the user’s body. The first version of the standard,
    > > popularly called
    > > “Biowire,” is meant to cover the two classes of
    > > hardware consumers are
    > > likely to see over the next year: “implantables” and
    > > the more flexible
    > > “dermal sockets.”
    > >
    > > http://www.msnbc.com/news/893494.asp?0dm=T17JT
    > >
    > > Now we're getting somewhere...
    > >
    > > -Zero
    > >
    > >
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