Nanotechnology

[legendsofaranna]

http://science.howstuffworks.com/nanotechnology.htm

Hope I see this before I die. "There's even speculation that nanorobots could slow or reverse the aging process, and life expectancy could increase significantly." I'm young so I can still wait.

[sugoi09]

I'm sure we will.

[Excrement_Cranium]

They could also ressurect Jason Voorhies and rain terror on a highschool fieldtrip spaceship.

[Stownplayer]

nanotech is the wave of the future.......

[Antimatter]

Very interesting read. Thanks

[Kyle06]

Yea very interesting read, we will see what happens in the next few years

but if gates supports terrorists we are in trouble

[Andrew110]

unbelievable, I bet we won't even get sick with nanotechnology.

[Digital Bliss]

Could you imagine nano drugs omfg that would own

[GiR]

I've known about nanotech for about 8 years now,... and as amazingly interesting as all the possibilities are (Immortaility, unlimited resources, possibly a great big gob of nano-goo that could consume the entire planet in under a week), im just as fascinated with the all the social changes that would need to occur to lead up to nano-tech.

Why order food or goto wal-mart when you could have anything replicated for you?

Why would people use the current form of economics, when nearly anything could be created at almost no-cost?

Whats to stop some super-nano virus from wiping out the planet?

The Nano-Age is going to change EVERYTHING.

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

Stanford University scientists are using a very small technique to try to solve a huge problem.

Nanotechnology, long used in electronics, is being enlisted to improve cancer treatment. Chemistry professor Hongjie Dai and his graduate student, Nadine Kam, have found a micro-targeted way to kill cancer cells while preserving healthy cells.

In simplest terms, the approach uses a thin beam of light to strike objects in cancer cells, killing them. It exploits the tendency of things to behave differently at the ``nano,'' or one-billionth, scale.

Read entire story here (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2314&e=2&u=/sv/20050802/tc_siliconvalley/_www12284399).

[WE_DELIVER]

I dont think nanotechnology is gonna keep us alive forever.
The problem is:
Flesh is a design flaw.
I think true immortality will only be possible when we figure out how to move our thought process onto a digital medium.

[Potato]

Just when I thought I'd go nuts if I ever saw "nanotechnology" and "legendsofaranna" on the same page, LOTD has made me happy.

If that ever becomes a treatment for cancer, wow. That's about all I can say.

[infringer]

Science will take much time to grasp nanotech it is like going from C code to assembly code really right now our knowladge only permits us to do certain things to living things but tapping into the binary zeros and ones of real life in theory could improve and destroy life as we know it depending upon the goals of where the research leads right now the goals all seem to be good natured but I really forbid that the knowladge of this science winds up going to use for the wrong reasons.

-infringer-

[infringer]

I dont think nanotechnology is gonna keep us alive forever.
The problem is:
Flesh is a design flaw.
I think true immortality will only be possible when we figure out how to move our thought process onto a digital medium.


Which is what we are doing slightly by posting here moving thoughts to digital medium...

But I think I know where you're idea is something like that movie with tom cruise where they have all everyones thoughts stored.

Reality though everything is flawed and eventually will expire but there are reasons why somethings are more prone to sooner expiration I believe that the research will lead to longer more youthful livelyhoods immortal I doubt it everything breaks down or away over time. One interesting thing to note talking about expiration that honey never expires honey will be ediable for ever something about its properties do not allow it to go bad for human consumption but even so it will deteriate over time I am sure...

Slowing the aging process or reversing the effects of aging is very likely immortality is not a likely suloution that will take place. The properties that we are made of and the resources required to sustain life as we know it eventually would be consumed in total or pulluted to the point where they are not consumeable which will result in death at some time or another anyways this planet is not immortal nor is this galaxy or universe so I dont believe that immortality in any sense is reachable. Once the universe gets sucked back into a black hole the only thing that will remain is a signature of differnt minerals and matter of what once was that is the only form of immortality we have to look fwd to.

And it will not be until the next big bang or maybe even many big bangs there after (due to the conditions and placement of things that are needed to sustain life) that we will eventually come back to life again.

That is my belief about life after death in a since and about immortality.

-infringer-

[Digital Bliss]

I want nano drugs ^_^

[Domethius]

You wanna live forever, check this out:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3210/02.html


I want my RNAi

[DwarfBaby]

"In the next 50 years, machines will get increasingly smaller -- so small that thousands of these tiny machines would fit into the period at the end of this sentence."

Not to be negative or anything but you know they're just gonna make a bomb or something even worse. We have become destroyer of worlds. The military will drive the rapid adoption of nano-technology and already has.

The Pentagon is already investing in Carbon-nanofibers that will be stronger and lighter then their current composite alloys. They are also planning to use nano-aluminum to better spread electric current through explosives like RDX and TNT to create a "more consistent fuel" translation bigger bang. They are using similar technology in rocket fuels for faster accelerating and longer range missiles. While future bunker-busting bombs will likely combine Nan-Carbons for strength and Depleted Uranium for strength and weight.

I would like to believe we could solve hunger or cure cancer by use of nano-tech but in the end I think will just blow ourselves up.

[DOA4]

The rules of war explains:

" In general, there is a ban on weapons whose purpose is to maximize pain and suffering: no poisoned weapons; no bullets that do additional damage once inside the body; no chemical or biological weapons. "

Source:

http://people.howstuffworks.com/rules-of-war2.htm