The fusion of man and machine is the epitome of a science fiction narrative. In real life, the first steps towards such cyborgs have long been taken: people have pacemakers to treat arrhythmias or ...

Some years ago I wrote a book entitled ``Red Sky.'' In it I foretold that some day Americans would be inoculated with a grain-of-wheat sized implant called a biochip. Progression would be from pets ...