From:	Ereskanti@***.com Ereskanti@***.com
Subject:	Laser-molding
Date:	Tue, 7 Sep 1999 12:34:59 EDT

In a message dated 9/7/1999 2:11:24 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
m0ng005e@*********.com writes:

> Hell yes- that's probaly what you would HAVE to do (its not likely to come
> "off the rack") Similar procedures are already used for designing
> artificial hips and joints. More amazing, there are machines that drill
> out the sockets for these artificail hips, based on stored NMRI data and
> attachmant to pre-anchored (and scanned) "reference points". Mike M. and
I
> had a nice "discusion" about this- he did not seem to realise how much of
> implant surgery is probably going to be (and already is) data maniplation
> and programming, as opposed to "surgery" in the classic "manual
dexterity"
> sense.

He didn't??? (K sits in utter stunned silence) Oh boy, that's frightening,
especially given the need for surgical/biological Nanites that are mentioned
in Shadowtechnology for the implantation of the more "invasive" cyberware.

-K