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British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2002, Vol. 88, No. 3 334-337
© 2002 The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia

Editorial

Editorial III

Anaesthesia and the Internet

M. Nyabadza and S. Das

Southampton General Hospital Tremona Road Southampton SO16 6YD, UK

As with many technological developments that eventually benefit mankind, the original intention of the Internet was for military advantage. Following the launch of Sputnik by the then Soviet Union in 1958, President D. Eisenhower of the USA set up the Advanced Projects Research Agency (ARPA) in an effort to regain the world lead position in science and technology. As the cold war deepened, ARPA was tasked by the US Air Force to develop a system that would enable ‘control and command of the military and missiles to survive a nuclear attack’. They assigned this project to ‘civilians’ at America’s top universities who developed the Internet in 1969. But just as ultrasound, Teflon and other ‘military’ inventions found their way into every day medical use, so too has the Internet. However, no other technology to date has had as great an impact on medicine and society. It has revolutionized the ways . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Communication

World Wide Web

Problems for anaesthetists

Quality assurance
Copyright matters
Security
The future

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