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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 mat- ter that rain forests have disappeared or acidic lakes are devoid of fish and life. Man won't need them. Evolution will have changed our entire makeup. Only this time around, it won't be slow, natural evolution, progressing by the millions of years. It'll be the speedy result of manipulation by man himself. American Air Force scientists are implanting silicon chips in the brains of dogs, aiming at im- planting 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 begin- ning. Then it'll be memory chips. Body function management chips. Accounting chips. Cultural chips. Entertainment chips. Man will be pro- grammed at birth for the life he'll live. In the beginning, babies will still be born of woman, then sent to the softwear department 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 One Woman s View by Chris Carlisle place, no doubt mechanical hearts will take the place of real hearts. Stronger, more durable skin will replace of our fragile skin. Kidneys and eyes will all gradually be replaced. Amputees already have myoelectric limbs that work after receiving messages from nerves. All that'll be needed is to hook them up to new computer brains. Slowly, but surely, man will change. He'll gradually evolve into a machine where no lungs are necessary. It won't matter what the air is like. Once all the body parts are finally replaced by metals and plastics, there'll be no nged for nourishment for cells and organs, so stomachs and maybe even mouths will be eliminated. It won't matter 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, denying them solar energy. Some say man began as a fish and as the waters receded he crawled up onto land, develop- ing arms, legs and lungs. He became a monkey and as his brain developed, Neanderthal and Cro- Magnon. We've become taller and our heads big- ger 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 preparing himself for an uninhabitable world. Even nuclear war won't matter. The machines might even thrive on radioactivity. They'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? Cobi request for homes turned down A request by Cobi Foods of Whitby to set up four trailers on a farm in Scugog for temporary housing for factory workers was turned down by Township council Monday aftemoon. Two weeks ago, reps from Cobi asked Township council for the permission to set up the trail- ers as housing for 24 off-shore employees who would be working in the company's processing plant in Whitby during the peak harvest season from August to mid- October. The proposed location for the temporary housing is east of Highway 12 and south of Prince Albert. Council unanimously threw the request out on the grounds that it could be a contravention of local zoning by-laws. And Township administrator Earl Cuddie said residents living in the nearby area have expressed come concerns over the proposal. But Regional councillor Law- rence Malcolm also had some words of criticism for Cobi which wants to bring in the factory workers from Mexico and the West Indies. He noted that in Durham Re- gion last June there were 1600 available at the Port Perry Star FRA For more information call 985-7383 employable persons on the wel- fare roles. "Maybe Cobi should be try- ing harder to employ these peo- ple," said councillor Malcolm. When Cobi reps appeared be- fore council two weeks ago, they said that efforts to find local help during peak working periods have not been successful. The off-shore workers often put in double shifts at the plant and can earn as much in ten or twelve weeks at the fac- tory as they can the rest of the year in the homelands. Jazzmerize ensemble wins Gold and Silver (From page 1) in Calgary. Other news of note from the Ontario Festival in Oshawa was the best performance award to the O'Neill Collegiate Jazz Disciples under the direction of Russ Baird. He lives in Prince Albert and is former music director at PPHS. People in the Port Perry area will have a chance to hear Jazz- merize in concert as the group will give two performances at Town Hall 1873 on Friday April 8 and Saturday April 9. A limited number of tickets are still availa- ble at Irwin Smith Music Shop on Queen Street. On an individual note, Vicki . Rensink and Matthew Salkeld were named to the all-star choir at the Ontario Festival held over the weekend. Random Jottings by J. Peter Hvidsten SEARCHING FOR A "HEART OF GOLD" We at the Star, along with Air Canada would like in Florida recently. How would you like to make someone you know feel really good about themselves? How would you like to honour someone who goes out of their way to make Scugog a better place to live? Members of the Canadian Community Newspa- per Association (of which the Port Perry Star is a member), and Air Canada have come up with a unique award, honouring individuals who work un- selflessly for the community with no though of re- ward. The Air Canada Heart of Gold Award is open to residents of Canada who are 19 years of age and older and qualify by the following criteria: * resourceful, courageous community leaders; give selfless service to others; are exemplary community volunteers; have overcome some form of disability to become useful and inspirational community members; qualify as community heroes; are generally, or in a particular significant in- stance, improving the quality of life in their com- munity; outstanding citizens who set a fine example for others. So you can see, the qualities we are looking for are qualities we all admire, and you may see in someone you know. * * * to salute these individuals who bring so much to our community, but we need your help. I'm sure everyone knows someone out there with a "Heart of Gold", and this is the perfect oppor- tunity to say "thanks". You can get things started right now by nominating someone you know and re- spect, simply by completing a form, found in an ad- vertisment on page 16 of this issue, or by picking up a special entry form at the Star office. The more information you can give about the person, the better, so include any special reasons why you feel the person you're nominating makes your community a better place to live. Nominations should be addressed to Air Cana- da's Heart of Gold Award, c/o Port Perry Star, P.O. Box 90, Port Perry, Ontario LOB 1NO, or they may be dropped off at our offices at 235 Queen Street, Port Perry. THE PHANTOM LIVES About a year and a half ago, members of the business community awoke one morning to find white stones inscribed with "The Phantom", placed in front of their stores, and the mystery "who is the Phantom" still remains. Although we have not heard too much from the Phantom as of late, Bill Barr told the Star last week that he received a letter at Christmas from the Phan- tom, and a card for his birthday, which he celebrated Although Bill has resigned himself to the fact he may never know who the real Phantom is, he says he would still like to communicate with him, or her so that he may use "the Phantom" idea for some kind of community promotion. So, Phantom, if you happen to read this col- umn, Bill would like to hear from you in any way you feel your identity will be protected. Of course, you know where to get a hold of him! BLOWIN' IN THE WIND How would you like to be one of the guards on that Loomis Armoured car who'll have to explain to their superiors how the rear door of their truck flew open, releasing $225 thousand dollars onto the Gardiner Expressway last Wednesday? Talk about a stoke of bad luck! Although there are no indications to point to some kind of conspiracy, | had one person suggest that the guards were in on the heist. with the two people who got away with the bags full of cash, but | find that one hard to believe! Can you imagine driving through a white-out caused by money. I'm sure no crook, but my reac- tion would probably have been the same as those hundreds of drivers who stopped to scoop up a few bills along the highway, and I'm sure none of them though of themselves as theives. But in the eyes of the law......I guess they are! ) , A | A | )