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From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (Dave Taylor)
Newsgroups: mod.comp-soc
Subject: Re: Computerized birth control
Message-ID: <470@hplabsc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Jul-86 02:02:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: hplabsc.470
Posted: Thu Jul 17 02:02:37 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jul-86 19:01:40 EDT
Reply-To: hplabs!pyramid!nbires!rcd (Dick Dunn)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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This article is from pyramid!nbires!rcd (Dick Dunn)
 and was received on Wed Jul 16 10:36:08 1986
 
>  ...the $150 computer is being marketed as a fertility
>  indicator in this country...
>  ...This is how it works: Each morning, it awakens a woman with an
>  insistent, but refined, beep; she puts the attached thermometer under her
>  tongue for 60 seconds to measure her body temperature; and the computer
>  records the temperature on a graph on its small screen ...

Trouble is, what does she do now that she's awake?  There are various
studies of the effect of waking people before it's really necessary for
them to be awakened...usual result is increase in birthrate.  The reasoning
supposedly goes something like, "Well, as long as we're awake..."