computer implant in 1997

[Bill Stewart]

Nothing surprising about it - just implant your basic lost-pet ID chip,
and set up a detector to read it.  All commercially available except
perhaps the computer interface to the detector, which isn't
all that complex either.  The more interesting journalism question isn't 
the lack of archive-checking by the journalist or this year's
claimant to firstness, but what political spin the professor tried to push 
with his press release and interviews and whether it was accepted
blithely or skeptically.

>> > READING, England -- Professor Kevin Warwick claimed Tuesday to be the
>> > first person in the world to have a computer chip surgically implanted
>> > into his body.
>> [...]
>> > Warwick demonstrated the chip in action by walking through the front
>> > door of his department. "Good morning, Professor Warwick. You have five
>> > new emails," said a computerized voice activated by the inserted chip.
>> [...]
>
>Kac implanted a computer chip in his body last year [...]

>i wonder to what extent journalists fact-check these "firsts".
				Thanks! 
					Bill
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