Synergies

Sometimes new technologies just seem to feed off one another. First is an article by Vijay Prakash suggesting that the world, or at least his local slice of it, augment their diet with regular helpings of rat. (cue Monty Python "ratatouille" skit) As it happens, I have a t-shirt featuring a "rat, lettuce, and tomato" sandwich.

Next comes this piece from Kevin Warwick, a professor at the University of Reading who has constructed a controller for a small robot using cultured rat brain tissue. Today the Skinner Box, tomorrow the US Congress, oh, wait...

I can see it coming; a computer that needs to be fed, watered, and it's litter box changed. Sort of broadens the meaning of the expression "my computer's crashed". Just wait until it wakes up again. And to increase the memory, just drop in selected bits of your lunch.