Thank you to the BBC for broadcasting this freaky message in the most innocuous way possible. As I deftly avoid my mundane tasks this morning, I am visited with a strange terror upon digesting the contents of this article :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7358863.stm
I'm immune now, from several years of close contact, to the stories about the DARPA research into remote controlled mice and such, but this is a new twist.
A helmet that can be attached to an unskilled laborer that will read his brain-waves and give him a jolt the moment his thought patterns murk up. Efficiency! Progress! Robotics!

Eyeclopse


the robotic age, of terrestrial habitation by un-living intelligent forms at function amongst those crafted from carbon, draws ever nearer and perhaps into the past already. And the collusion of the two becomes ever the more sophisticated. Citizen! Archaic Life-Form! Witness: the bionic eye!

Courtesy of the National Geographic Foundation.

Also, realizing my sperm count has most likely been decimated by years of carrying my cell phone in my pants' pocket, I am contemplating having myself cloned for posterity.