I was reading in Popular Mechanics where they conjure up this machine that would have data storage (memory) the wearer wears on their waist and an implant that would be wrapped around the optic fiber of the eye. "The bitstream from the implant would be beamed to the storage media, so we would remember all we see. Photographers would see otherwise impossable zooms, and people at the scene would be good eyewitnesses if the robber made off with 3,000 worth of Wow chips!" You may have heard of the laser knife, using about 257 lasers that combine to burn out muscle or other realms of physiolgy even at the cellular level without a cut, because the lasers are not powerful till they heat up in the intersection. So the knife has minimal blood loss, and stays in the hospital are just hours, not months, for surgery.
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Some believe if instead of making a cut to add in the implant or other machine round the optic nerve with risk of damage to the nerve and the blood loss, it might be more of worth if the lasers were used to make the machine itself. They are now where they make chips of carbon, the stuff of life, so a method has been devised... The laser would melt out the tissue where the prosthetic would go and once the tissue was in a more liquified state for just a bit, using electrically charged beams and a sensor beam, the molecules could be moved around in a few minutes to make the prosthetic, building it up layer by layer, sort of like a 3d printer, escept by laser from a more distant realm. These machines may be minute or cellular or even more reduced in size without surgery so many could be implanted for the same cost and savings. Some think another related method to make the implants would use oral dosages of the compounds (these would be in combination with other compounds to make them inert). These would then go in circulation where the lasers would light up where they would stay and be made active, and the rest would be cleansed out by the body's metabolism, and so on. Another possibility would be assembly of the compounds onsite by self assembling machines.
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Removal of the implant would perhaps be as easy as the operation if it were worthwhile to remove it later for some reason (tissue in the space where the machine was might even be rebuilt and blended so it would heal in with surrounding mass) and each implant might have rewritable software that would be beamed to the machines via the usual beam route to the implant. It's been said that the brain pacemakers like for depression or Parkinsons would always be for just the few people in the most extreme illness, but in the future this might eventually be achieved for anyone who would find this of worth in many types of illness like about unblocking arteries to the heart. It may eventually be as easy for them as just changing their audio headset to a hat!
Removal of the implant would perhaps be as easy as the operation if it were worthwhile to remove it later for some reason (tissue in the space where the machine was might even be rebuilt and blended so it would heal in with surrounding mass) and each implant might have rewritable software that would be beamed to the machines via the usual beam route to the implant. It's been said that the brain pacemakers like for depression or Parkinsons would always be for just the few people in the most extreme illness, but in the future this might eventually be achieved for anyone who would find this of worth in many types of illness like about unblocking arteries to the heart. It may eventually be as easy for them as just changing their audio headset to a hat!
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A good use of the gamma knife itself may be for other types of surgery, e.g. prostate operations may be used to unblock the tubes that when blocked cause the prostate to swell with fluid. A sensor would see where the tubes were sealed and the lasers would combine at that point to unblock the pores. Prostate is a major problem of the developed countries costing billions. Current surgery that works costs 10s of thousands or is with much risk, and so on. This might be a cure just using a simple scanner and a cheap laser. The gamma may have many bright uses in the health science of the 21st century.
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