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6 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, May 20, 1987 . a machine where no lungs are necessary. It won't n One Woman's View by Chris Carlisle All this worry about world pollution is totally unnecessary By 2050, there won't be any life as we know it to worry about sustaining It won't matter that air, water and land are full of chemicals, making water undrinkable; crops unedible or air unbreathable. It won't matter that rain forests have disappeared or acidic lakes are devoid of fish and life. Man won't need them To Evolution will have changed our entire makeup Only this ime around, it won't be slow, natural evolution. progressing by the millions of years It'll be the speedy result of f manipulation by man himself. American Air Force scientists are implanting silicon chips in the brains of dogs, aiming at implanting similiar chips in pilots to give them an extra sensing organ. (So a recent Reuter news report says.) Apparently, at a brainstorming session at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio two years ago, U.S' Air Force researchers and science fiction writers suggested that computer chips planted in military pilots' brains would improve their performance It's the beginning of the end of man as we know him. We're already transplanting hearts and organs. We do skin grafts, blood transplants and keep comatose people alive on machines. With brain replacement, everything will change. Chips to help fighter pilots are only the beginning. Then it'll be memory chips. Body function management chips Accounting chips. Cultural chips. Entertainment chips: Man will be programmed at birth for the life he'll live. In the beginning babies will still be born of woman, then sent to the softwear Segariment for installation of the appropriate chips. People will be programmed sO totally as to politics, preferences and functions, we won't need natural brains any more. And while all the brain changes are taking place, no doubt mechanical hearts will take the place of real hearts. Stronger, more durable skin will replace our fragile skin Kidnéys and eyes will all gradually be replaced. Amputeés already have myoelectric limbs that work after receiving messages from nerves. All that'll be needed 36:0 hook them up to new. computer beatae Slowly, but surely, man will change He'll ly evolve into natter what the air is like. Once all the body parts are finally replaced by metals and plastics, there'll be no need for nourishment for cells and organs, so stomachs and maybe even mouths will be eliminated. It won't mat- ter that the world can't grow food. - "New Age" humans will be mechanically reproduced by New Age humans programmed to make even more new ones. If the mother instinct is still programmed, mothers would be given babies which are fitted for new arm and leg replacements from time to time, so it gets bigger yearly until it's an adult. There'll be no more worry about AIDS or cancer, just about whether the power will go off or the sun burn out, deny them solar energy. Some say man began as a fish and as the waters receded he _ crawled up onto land, developing arms, legs and lungs. He became _ a monkey and as his brain developed, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon. We've become taller and our heads bigger as we've developed. We've lost claws and tails because we don't need them. As the world becomes more and more polluted and unable to support him, man, perhaps without consciously realizing it, is prepanng himself for an uninhabitable world. Even nuclear war won't matter The machines might even thrive on radioactivity. Théy ll look back and talk about the archaic times when man had to think for himself They ll thank Whoever that man made the right decision about brain chips in the 1980's. They might even still wonder what life is all about Do we really know what we're doing" Leslie A. Parkes accepted in respected Society of Artists Port Perry artist Leslie A. Parkes has recently been admitted to the Society of Canadian Artists. Since retirement last year from a distinguished carger as designer of packages for the supermarket, Parkes has rapidly achieved recognition among his peers as an important illustrator in water- colours. On the hectic adjudication circuit, his works have been cited - for awards at galleries in Toronto, Oshawa, Whitby, Collingwood, Bowmanville, Mississauga and featured in Beaux Arts Interna tionale, O'Keefe Centre, Nathan Philips Square and Beth Tikvah in the city of Toronto Currently on display in a number of galleries throughout the province, the artist's work can be seen in the Blue Mountain Foundation's show In Collingwood, the Peel Gallery show in Brampton and joining members of the Pittsburgh Watercolour Socie- ty and the Toronto Watercolour Society, in an invitational show at Gallery 306. The bulk of his output is contracted by the Sneyds at Ex- ploration House, major art dealers . in Toronto. From June 27th 'to July 18th a special exhibition at the Sutton Branch Gallery will feature the paintings of both Ruth Wolkoff and Leslie A. Parkes. The report of his admission to such a highly respected society is welcome news to the artist. He con- "siders it another positive signal of acceptance in the fine art field and a motivating factor which makes his submissions. to international com- petitions now more likely. Viewpoint (From page 5) | In the world of politics, stranger things have happened. And speaking of political leaders, Ontario Conservative leader Larry Grossman must be wondering about his future. The Party that Davis built is crumbling around him. Yet another former mover and shaker by the name of Dr.-Bétte Stephenson announced last week that she is packing it in. The once powerful Tories who ruled Ontario like a fiefdom for 42 years are facing decimation in the next provincial elec- tion. Thé Liberals are going to run away with it, and a safe bet is the NDP forming the official Opposition. The Tories won't be long nudging Mr. Grossman from the leader's office. And when that happens, the new leader will have to pick up the pieces and start rebuilding a party which was once 'the most powerful marking in the Dominion. Yesterday' mw Memories (From page 5) study Peel's Poultry Management in Production. Mrs. M. Cairns, Port Perry, has returned home after a five week visit with relatives and friends in New Zealand. 10 YEARS AGO ~~ Wednesday, May 18, 1977 For the second year in a row, Port Perry High School archers Ken DeJong, Shelley Howsam, Margaret Brawn, Steve Rensink, Mike Freemart, Paula Price, and coach Sharon Cracknell captured first place in the Lake Ontario Secondary School Association competitions. Janis McLaughlin and Louise VanCamp, both of Blackstock, were recently awarded Provincial Honours Certificates for comple- tion of six years of 4H Homemaking Club projects. At Cartwright High School's annual At Home dance Debbie McLaughlin was chosen as queen. Join the challenge on May 27 Scugog Township is taking up the Challenge for Participaction Challenge Day on Wednesday, May 27. Residents may telephone 985-9761 once they have completed 15 minutes of activity, or register in person at a number of locations, in- cluding Participaction Challenge Headquarters, to be set up in a trailer beside the Latcham Centre. A number of recreation facilities are also providing registration ser- -|- vice for those who participate at their locations. Golfers may register at Sunnybrae or Summerlea Golf Courses. Horseback riders may register at Hoskin Stables, Greystone or Northwood Equestrian Centres. register at the Port Perry Lawn Bowling Clubhouse. If there are additional locations willing to provide registration ser- vice please contact the Off-Site Co- _ ordinator, Connie Jamieson, at Community Memorial Hospital. HOSPITAL REPORT Week Ending May 14, 1987 Admitted... 29 Births... 3 Deaths .....c.coonmeeem PERRET Sania 0 Emergencies.......... emia tna 269 Operations............................... 17 Discharged.............................. 23 Remaining....................._......... 40 Lawn bowlers may in the 1950's and 1960's writing about things of interest around the community. : I was intrigued by the thought of bringing this - Random Jottings -l 'by J. Peter Hvidsten Port Perry Booming It was good to see last week that council is tak- ing some positive action at aleviating the traffic pro- blems in the 7A Highway, Water Street area. ~ Merchants in the Port Perry Plata have had to hire off-duty Policemen every weekend to help their customers getting in and out of the plaza and as new commercial development comes on stream it can on- ly get worse. : Even downtown Port Perry 1s a beehive of ac- | tivity this Spring with the street very seidom hav- ing vacant parking spaces. It seems almost every week there is a new business opening up somewhere in the town and the selection and vanety of products now in town are second to none With a lake at our doorsteps. a beautiful water- front park, an attractive Victorian style main street and modern shopping plaza facilities it is a wonder that anyone has to leave town to shop. Supporting our local business is a way/of mak- ing sure your money goes back into the community to keep it a vibrant and beautiful place to visit or live. RANDOM WHAT? Undoubtedly there will be a few people who will wonder where the name of this column originated, and what-the-heck is a Random Jotting anyway. Well, after pondering over numerous possibilities for an original name, it occurred to me, that it was not necessary to be original. Thinking back to my teenage years I remembered a column written in a newspaper with the name "Fandom Jottings." The author of this column was none other than 'my mother, Leila E. Hvidsten. She wrote the column in the Uxbridge Times-Journal where she was editor column back to life, so the permission of the author was received and now I can only hope that the material in this column will be as interesting as hers was a few years back. Thanks for the name Mom! ABOUT FIRES Last week's forest fire south of Port Perry brought back many memories for me as I struggled through the underbrush taking photos while forty or so firemen fought to gain control of the blaze. This time my job was to capture some of the men in action as they tried to prevent the fire from spreading and causing even more damage. But back in 1963 it was a different story. At that time I was an eighteen year old teenager working for the Department of Lands and Forest Junior Ranger ~ program in an isolated area near Wawa, Ontario. Our job was to cut a park out of the wilderness and we spent eight hours a day in the blackfly in- fested bush clearing out brush, cutting small trees (Turn to page 7) - Ee ., {Om lise sl ice I Ge wot iy a RL - RIT ar eb ce Te ul ,™MS.