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Watching From Inside |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / AT THE EDGE |
| Author: Craig Dees |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1998 |
| Size: 2,233 Words, 14,965 Characters |
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Ten years ago I looked out my office door and saw one of my lab workers crying quietly at her desk. Arrayed in front of her were the pieces of equipment that then accompanied severe diabetics everywhere: an awkward large meter for measuring her sugar level and a lancet for drawing blood from her fingers. Those old meters required rather large amounts of blood, and the lancets looked like scalpels. If a diabetic's blood sugar level had to be determined many times a day, eventually the person's fingers became so toughened that the process became difficult and painful.vbcrlf Severe diabetics live with the knowledge that if they cannot accurately determine their blood sugar level, the dose of insulin they give may threaten their life. If too littl...
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...plantable microchip could tell a remote monitor where a person is, what he is doing, and perhaps even what he is feeling, it could prove useful for monitoring the actions of a repeat sexual offender, but I would not like to see the government putting such a thing into everyday law-abiding citizens. The technological advances in these devices could turn Orwellian fiction into fact very soon. vbcrlf
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