When Brains Meet Computer Brawn

prankster writes "News.com has an interesting story on among other things collective minds and nanotechnology based on the 405 page report "Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance: Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology, and Cognitive Science," from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Commerce. A quote: "The human body will be more durable, healthy, energetic, easier to repair and resistant to many kinds of stress, biological threat and (the) aging process." The story even mentions our favourite enemy - the Borgs."

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Re:Anyone who thinks Steve Austin is a wrestler...

[CommieLib]

Nah, you've missed the point.

Of course rich folks will get the stuff first. It's just like everything, but as companies produce this stuff, they'll figure out ways to make it cheaper in an attempt to outbid their competitors and make more money. The price falls, everyone benefits.

Your second point, re: Zimbabwe assumes that the drugs came down like manna from heaven. The fact that they exist at all is due to the fact that some people were willing and able to pay what you and I would consider outrageous prices. Those outrageous prices whet the appetite of investors to pony up more dough for research.

Don't like the system? The alternative is tax money extracted at gunpoint to run labs that are under very little pressure to produce (see: NASA, NIH).