http://www.sciencenews.org | March 13, 2021 17GLENN HARVEYScience future: brain bots
Sarah had made up her mind. After five
years, she was going to get her neural net
removed.
The millions of nanobots in her brain had given her life
back to her, by helping her mind to work again. They had
done their job. It was time to get them out.
After Sarah’s baby was born on the summer solstice,things got dark. The following months had tipped Sarah into
a postpartum depression that kept her from enjoying her
gorgeous, perfect little girl.
Unable to feel much of anything, Sarah barely moved
through those early days. She rarely looked at the baby. She
forgot to eat. She would sit in a dark room for hours, air con-
ditioner on full blast, staring at nothing. Those endless days
stretched until an unseasonably hot September morning.
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