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"One can see the free software movement as a precusor for a "free hardware" or "free wetware" movement--one that will provide free libraries of designs for biological or nanotechnological products that replicators can be programmed to churn out."
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The first "implanted tooth" (in the modern era) was a titanium dental implant created by Per Brånemark of Sweden in 1965. He observed that titanium bonds exceptionally well wth bone tissue.
The first pre-modern era implanted tooth was found in a Mayan burial site; a mandible dating back 1400 years had three tooth-shaped pieces of shell placed in the sockets of missing incisors. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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