http://www.spacedaily.com/news/nanotech-02a.html
http://www.hybridmedicalanimation.com/pages/nanobots.html


what are your thoughts ?

Medical applications are all well and good, but I really want a spacecraft that can be repaired by nanobots.

Ahhh I love that kind of stuff, nice page.

I think that once we master nanobots it will revolutionize construction. In fact it will revolutionize many fields of science and many industries. Many good things can come from this, and many bad things too.

To hell with the bad things, at this pont we're already on the brink of nuclear(H-bomb), medical(super strains), environmental(poisoned air/water), atmostpheric(ozone depletion), and interplanetary(asteroidal) anihallation, and no one cares.

Whats the problem with adding something else to the mix?

/me smiles sadly....

In theory the same nanobot used to inject medication, attack hostile bacteria, and build new cells can be used to inject viruses, attack body cells, and build super cells that our body can not combat.

Also a huge threat of nanobots assimulating the atoms around us could also be a problem depending on how we make replicators.

I personally welcome the technology, but ignorance to the problems will never help. I hope that some day i will be involved in the research because IMO the bonuses outway the minuses.

read This then have a discussion about nanotech...

that link covered a lot more than just nanotech, but i manage to see it through.

"Moravec's view is that the robots will eventually succeed us - that humans clearly face extinction."

"But I guess I wasn't totally surprised. I had seen a quote from Danny in Kurzweil's book in which he said, "I'm as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 with a body of silicon, I'll take it." It seemed that he was at peace with this process and its attendant risks, while I was not."

"
The dream of robotics is, first, that intelligent machines can do our work for us, allowing us lives of leisure, restoring us to Eden. Yet in his history of such ideas,Darwin Among the Machines, George Dyson warns: "In the game of life and evolution there are three players at the table: human beings, nature, and machines. I am firmly on the side of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of the machines." As we have seen, Moravec agrees, believing we may well not survive the encounter with the superior robot species."

"A second dream of robotics is that we will gradually replace ourselves with our robotic technology, achieving near immortality by downloading our consciousnesses; it is this process that Danny Hillis thinks we will gradually get used to and that Ray Kurzweil elegantly details inThe Age of Spiritual Machines. (We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body, as illustrated on thecover ofWired 8.02.)"

the only thing i could think of while reading the link was 'Ghost In The Shell'

I'll shut up now, since i have more to learn than anyone else.