Backbytes, an irreverent and offbeat look at the lighter side of technology in blog format computing computing

« Let’s pretend | Main | IT trainers must be removed »

Man or mutant?

After our story last week about the PhD marrying robots, a regular correspondent writes: “I would like to come at the idea of artificial partners from the other end.
“I have a stainless steel hip and a titanium middle ear, and my wife did once raise the issue of just how much of me could be replaced before I would be declared non-human.”
If this occurs, his spouse intends to claim on the life insurance.
Would anyone care to lay down a practical definition by which we can divide the human race into humans and machines?

Comments

Post a comment







Type the characters you see in the picture above.

 

  Site credentials: About vnunet.com network | Privacy policy | Terms & conditions | Top of page
  © Incisive Media Ltd. 2008
  Incisive Media Limited, Haymarket House, 28-29 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4RX, is a company registered in the United Kingdom
  with company registration number 04038503