Microsoft researchers
have published a paper that documents the human body makes a
great RF
antenna, and they want to exploit it (Cohn et al, paper is
attached
below). I've written a satirical piece making fun (and ringing
alarm
bells, I hope) about this concept. No one yet will publish or
post
it. It is probably too provocative. Terry Siemens has heard me
read
it. It links the intentional use of the human body by companies
like
Microsoft - as we are trying to reduce RF exposures from things
like
smart meters, WI-FI.. etc.... they are trying to 'juice us up'
in the
hope they can sell some products we don't need, using that
directed
energy to turn on lights, turn down the thermostat.. without
getting
off the couch. Imaginary? Not at all. You just have to put up
with
the idea that such conveniences cost you, and will probably kill
you
eventually. The marketing may take some further thinking, since
even
the tobacco companies figured out they needed replacement
smokers to
continue to be profitable businesses. You might also think to
the
headlines this week about the high rate of failure of metal hip
implants (see below). The tissue around the metal joints is dead
tissue; the metal implant itself is disintegrating. Makes on
wonder
if this, like radioimplants in animals for tracking purposes
which
show tumors grow at the implant site - may be related to an
interaction of the metal implant and the RF. In the case of
humans,
it is the ambient RF. In the case of implanted animals, it is
the
transmitting RF of the implanted device. Does not bode well for
medicine, nor for the use of humans as walking antennas to
further
sales of Microsoft devices.
Cindy Sage
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