Upgrade Me Page #7

'for conditions such as stress, schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis.

'The sensors could help patients better manage their symptoms.'

Would you describe this kind of technology as sort of an upgrade to the human body?

In the sense that you're not going to suffer from all the side reactions

that you'd normally have, of course it's an upgrade,

but there are other applications of that. We've been looking at some sports applications,

bearing in mind we have the Olympics in 2012, and that the elite athletes are interested in monitoring

their glucose and lactate levels because this determines their performance.

If you could monitor that and have some control over that during training,

you could upgrade their performance.

Does that move then to, you know, being able to measure somebody's state of mind?

In terms of measuring their state of mind,

it depends on, can we find something to measure which would be an indicator of their state of mind?

If the answer's yes to that, if we could find a measure of that,

some chemical measure of it, we could in theory do the same thing.

This is a long way into the future, of course.

Technology plays a central role in our imaginations.

But just how close do we want our relationship to become?

We've placed our faith in these bewildering ingenious objects

to the point where we'd be lost and angry without them.

I've got my gadgets, though, and after decades of upgrading they seem perfect to me.

So I can be happy with my lot.

At least, that is, until tomorrow.

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