The Human Scientist Infected With a Computer Virus

http://gizmodo.com/5548254/the-human-scientist-infected-with-a-computer-virus

This is a very interesting article/ video from BBC, discussing how implanted chips not only have beneficial possibilities (such as allowing access to a secure building or allowing only one user to use their cell phone), but also potentially dangerous possibilities (such as spreading computer viruses from implanted chip to other circuit systems). As the world of technology grows, this seems to be one of the first instances of how computer systems are becoming more like biological systems, in that they can act and react much like living things to viruses. Its kind of scary how someone in the future carrying a car access chip in their hand can infect another person in their proximity with a computer virus that could potentially disrupt pacemakers, cochlea implants, etc. causing harm to others. Also, since the human race has become quite dependent on technology to survive, it is scary to think that our bodies have also become dependent on it, allowing the spread of not only biological virus' but computer ones as well, thus adding yet another variable of risk in the world. This relates to the class in how technology has been impacting our lives, and how it has overlapped reality in many ways. This is just another example of how technology is slowly becoming us, and we in turn slowly becoming technology ourselves.