[IFETS-Discuss] Borg's Origins

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tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Date: Wed 24 May 2000 - 14:32:12 MEST 

From: tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Subject: [IFETS-Discuss] Borg's Origins 
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 05:32:12 -0700

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Greetings IFETSers,

As we are discussing about "Technology" and "Cyborgs", I thought, this
might also interest you.

Norbert Weiner, who had coined the term 'cybernetics' in 1948, first
applied the cyborg (a combination of "cybernetic" and "organism") to a
white lab rat modified at New York's Rockland State Hospital in the 1950s.
Weiner implanted an osmotic pump into the rat so that he could alter its
physiological parameters by injecting chemicals into its bloodstream at a
controlled rate.

Reference:-
"Writing the Future: Computers in Science Fiction" (J. vos Post and K.L.
Kroeker, January 2000 issue of Computer, pp 29-37.

Thank you!
Sincerely
Arun Tripathi

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