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Welcome to the Machine 2

For some fool reason, as I listened to this episode of Radio Times about “wearable computers,” I was unable to shake this image:

Jean_Luc Picard as Borg

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  1. George Smith

    October 2, 2012 at 11:13 am

    Remember the Human Cyborg, Steve Mann, who went to a McDonald’s in Paris and used the media and his ‘wearable computer’ to complain he was beaten up and made to soil himself by irritated employees? He never did get satisfaction, if indeed any was due. But I do find the idea that -anyone- would go to Paris and then eat at a McDonald’s moderately hilarious. 

     
  2. Frank

    October 2, 2012 at 5:15 pm

    No, I’d forgotten.  

    He looks a lot like the picture I posted:  http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/16/augmented-reality-explorer-steve-mann-assaulted-at-parisian-mcdonalds/

    “Just because you can” is not really a very good reason to do something.

    No, I