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Thinking Is Doing With Cyborg Technology

By David Ewing Duncan
Published March 13, 2005 at 11:00 PM CST

Scientists make it possible for quadriplegics to control a television, play simple computer games and check e-mail... by just thinking about it. Commentator David Ewing Duncan contemplates the age of the neuro-cyborg.

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