# Rise of the Machines: Implantable Computers

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 15, 2007, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-implantable-computers/408190 "2007-06-15T23:43:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-implantable-computers/408190/1 "2007-06-15T23:43:37Z")

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[Brings new meaning to the phrase “enemy within.”](http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/05.24/99-biocomputer.html)

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> Researchers at Harvard and Princeton universities have taken a crucial step toward building biological computers, tiny implantable devices that can monitor the activities and characteristics of human cells. The information provided by these “molecular doctors,” constructed entirely of DNA, RNA, and proteins, could eventually revolutionize medicine by directing therapies only to diseased cells or tissues.
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> The results will be published this week in the journal Nature Biotechnology.
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> “Each human cell already has all of the tools required to build these biocomputers on its own,” says Harvard’s Yaakov “Kobi” Benenson, a Bauer Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Center for Systems Biology. “All that must be provided is a genetic blueprint of the machine and our own biology will do the rest. Your cells will literally build these biocomputers for you.”

First question: What will be the implanted biocomputer version of Ctl+Alt+Del?

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**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-implantable-computers/408190/2 "2007-06-16T00:26:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Tuckerfan]  
[Brings new meaning to the phrase "enemy within."](http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/05.24/99-biocomputer.html)First question: What will be the implanted biocomputer version of Ctl+Alt+Del?  
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You don’t want to know, but suffice it to say, it’s slightly different for women than men.

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**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-implantable-computers/408190/3 "2007-06-16T01:12:14Z")

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Agent Elrond with his sunglasses is getting closer and closer all the time, isn’t he?

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-implantable-computers/408190/4 "2007-06-16T02:26:02Z")

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I’m waiting for the remotely-controllable version. For use in other people, not myself, of course.

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**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-implantable-computers/408190/5 "2007-06-16T02:28:48Z")

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BrainPals for everybody!

I get first dibs on calling mine “Asshole.”

Oh, and the naked, buxom, horny green commandos.

The future is going to be great.

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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-implantable-computers/408190/6 "2007-06-16T02:30:01Z")

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I misread the title as “ **_Implacable_ Computers.** ” I already have wide experience of those.