Personal Networks

networks in the future will get more personal. Not the kind of personal as in Bluetooth or Pan (personal area networks) , but personal as in data packets getting exchanged between different organs in a living body. some researchers have suggested that future human beings could have tiny chips implanted inside their bodies which would be linked to the internet. Consider patients with heart conditions would have Internet-enabled pace makers implanted in their hearts. No matter where these people are ,the pacemakers would keep sending data to a entral server where doctors would monitor the condition of the heart in area time. In the future, we would be cyborgs, our bodies carrying tiny silicon chips that would keep a constant touch with chips in other people .This has already been attempted b Kevin Warwick-a professor of Cybernetics at University of Reading -who has implanted a chip in his hand. It was connected to the internet, and the purported aim was to move the hand using commands sent online. Though the experiment failed-Warwick had to take the chip out after two months- it is a picture of what could be.

Even if we manage to wire our bodies up to the internet and exchange data packets with each other, there are several moral dilemmas that have to be overcome. one of them is obviously privacy: already the proposal to implant RFID chips on criminals and sex offenders in the Us have been met with strict opposition from civil lights activists, who fear the technology could be misused for other, less ethical purposes think about dictatorships implanting these chips on dissidents. Sprat from that, there are other technical problems to sort out can a human body , for instance, live in a state where strong wireless fields blast through every mitochondrion in living cells? Would we see new diseases, or newer tumors? and what about the strain on routers and servers who would see and incremental jump in data transfers ? That's where newer protocols come in .