On (16 Apr 05) Steve Asher wrote to George Pope...
 SA>  GP> I can't believe that they can send an email just by THINKING!
 SA>
 SA> I have a feeling the reporter was thinking of Professor Warwick, of
 SA> Reading University, who was chipped a few years back, & who apparently
 SA> uses the chip to control a computer which communicates with his wife.

Wasn't this a story in Asimov's Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine?

 SA> We need the chips so our children can get their free school lunch
 SA> without
 SA> their peers knowing they can't afford to buy it, or so we won't hold
 SA> up
 SA> Macca's staff when we drive our e-tag equipped cars through their
 SA> remotely
 SA> controlled "drive thru" to get our burgers & fries (and so on).

What "need"?
Never underestimate the power of mass passive resistance!
They told us we needed a Pentium running 32-bit Windows to exist in the
world today, but here I am, on my fave 'puter -- my IBM 486 running DOS
6.22!

Because I care,
<+]::-{)}  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))


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