So in a generation or two a computer virus will be murder, we can throw away my keyboard & simply "plug-in" instead, and don't even want to discuss cyber sex
Brain Cells, Silicon Chips Are Linked Electronically
Part-Mechanical, Part-Living Circuit Created
By Shankar Vedantam
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 28, 2001; Page A03
Scientists for the first time have linked multiple brain cells with silicon chips to create a part-mechanical, part-living electronic circuit.
To construct the partially living electronic circuit, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany managed to affix multiple snail neurons onto tiny transistor chips and demonstrated that the cells communicated with each other and with the chips.
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