[Discuss-gnuradio] The implant defence?

[Steve Schear]

As RF and signal processing devices shrink to ever smaller dimensions one 
can see a time ahead when SDR-type systems (or critical subsystems) will 
reach the chip size and be implant candidates.  When combined with 
malleable brain techniques now under development, they could serve to 
extend the range of human acuity in the electromagnetic spectrum.  What 
will be the position of Congress and the Courts when these capabilities are 
no longer contained within appliances but are integrated into our 
bodies?  Besides banning their manufacture or import, will they order their 
surgical removal?  What limits to sensory and other functional extensions 
will be sought?  Enforceable?

Shades of William Gibson.  HeadGuns anyone?

steve

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