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| Subject: Futuristic developments Fri Jun 01, 2012 3:44 am | |
| Suspended animation. Mind control. Operations performed over the internet. Dr Richard Satava, pioneer of 'outrageous surgery', believes all this - and much more - will soon be possible. Alex Hannaford reports.
You have 2.5 billion heart beats in a lifetime. Imagine if you could choose how to spend them. Imagine being able to control an artificial limb or even an external machine - a car, perhaps - with your brain.
Imagine a battlefield where a solider, mortally wounded, is given an injection to put him into suspended animation, flown to a hospital thousands of miles away, operated on, and then brought back to life.
Or imagine that same soldier still lying on the battlefield but being operated on by a robot, controlled by a surgeon in another country.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/the-outrageous-surgeon-20120601-1zlqx.html#ixzz1wWdaUXsi
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