| From: | Danyel N Woods <9604801@********.AC.NZ> |
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| Subject: | Re: Surgeons as Riggers? |
| Date: | Tue, 5 May 1998 17:03:12 +1200 |
>I just heard a report on the radio that in an Australian first, a
>surgeon has used a robot to perform surgery by remote control. I didn't
>catch the whole story, but I think the main surgeon was at a remote
site
>and there was a human surgeon in the operating theatre in case there
was
>a problem with the robots.
> This brought me back to an idea I had the other day on the bus
>on the way to work. In 205X, could some surgeons be very specialised
>forms of riggers? Given that at the moment, there is a lot of surgery
>being done with laproscopes (I had my gall bladder out by laproscope in
>'93) and the story relayed above, could a surgeon benefit from a VCR
>which is hooked to the miniature tools used in surgery?
>
>just another thought for a wet afternoon in Canberra
I don't see why not; this sort of stuff would be ideal for those
operations that were bigger than nanites normally handle and too small
for drastic invasive stuff (maybe toxin exhalers, filter systems, stuff
like that)
Of course, there's all sorts of things one could do with this. Given
the right ID, a rigger could masquerade as a surgeon as a cover
(infiltration into medical research labs, an alibi with the Star, et
cetera). A surgeon looking for fun and excitement could start
moonlighting as a rigger-runner (okay, he's got all the money he could
want, but what does he do for kicks? Maybe golf doesn't do it for him).
Or perhaps, when the runners hit her facility, the Deltaware surgeon
they're 'extracting' figures "Hell, robots are robots" and starts
remote-rigging a combat-drone to save her hide.
Danyel Woods
9604801@********.ac.nz
'Are you deliberately trying to drive me insane?'
'The universe is already mad. Anything else would be
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