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Roland Piquepaille writes "In this article from Backbone Magazine, Douglas Mulhall, author of 'Our Molecular Future' tells us about the future of nanomedicine. He thinks that medical diagnosis will be the first successful steps, involving nanorobots which will raise alerts when they detect pre-cancerous cells. And twenty years from now, researchers envision that nanomedicine will be a trillion dollar industry. Around 2025, you'll pay $1,000 a year for a nanopill that will extend your life by suppressing heart attacks, diabetes and other diseases. Other scientists say that nanotechnology will be used to build synthetic bone and tissue, an opinion shared by Scientific American, which warns that growing replacement organs is still at least another 10 to 20 years in front of us. More details and references are available in this overview focused on how nanomedicine is going to totally take over healthcare in the 21st century. [Additional note: Slashdot described Mulhall's Law of Disassembly last February.]"
.. enlarge my penis?
Around 2025, you'll pay $1,000 a year for a nanopill that will extend your life by suppressing heart attacks, diabetes and other diseases.
And then they can mix it with viagra and make a pill that increases your life, AND your penis! Twice the spam too!
Setec Astronomy
I tried to read it, but never got past the word "anatomynaughts" in the second paragraph. Are those like a cross between astronauts, anatomy, and... nothing?
:P
Seriously, if you're going to make up words, at least spell them correctly.
Borg Technology
Coming to a stardeck near you.
"Skin is being sprayed by ink jet printers onto surfaces. Then it grows."
My inkjet printer already does that.
Then "it" certainly does grow.
The coolest voice ever.
Hell, it'll probably just average out ;) By living unhealthily and taking magic pills, I can probably just manage a normal lifespan 8-}
Let's start a petition now for the software in the 'nano-bots' be open source. I don't need all of the security and stability flaws of M$ with the coding genius of Diebold operating running around in my bloodstream.
:-P haha
And they'll never catch on at all unless they're low carb
I, for one, welcome our new nanobot overlords!
Half-life 2 is delayed, Doom 3 is delayed, the new Skyline GT-R is put off 2 years, and now I have to wait 20 years for this cool pill?
I guess they're all trying to teach us delayed gratification.
And it will probably cost $1000 is 2004 dollars, or $12342 2025 dollars. Though the first public doses will probably be available only through a Pepsi sweepstakes.
And by then $1000 will be a pittance!
The Doormat
If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
Yeah, and 640k should be enough for anybody....
"TV is great! Every New Year's I make a resolution to watch more TV." - Ann Coulter
I am an expert on nanotechnology because I read Micheal Chrichtons book 'Prey'. They will swarm and then set us up the bomb!
Thanks to M.C. I am also an expert on genticaly recreated Disosaurs (Raptors are bad), Time Travel (Old things are bad), Alien Intelignce (Spherical things in the ocean are bad), Japanese business practices (Horny S&M loving Japanese guys are bad), and countless other cutting edge issues... all of which are BAD.
~Z
-LAUGH-
...they will invent immortality the day after I die.
I forget.
> You could end up more demented than Ronald
> Reagan but still looking like J Lo (or whatever
> you prefer).
So, basically, retirement homes will be the whorehouses of the future?
The distant future: "Dude, that is the chick you're banging? She doesn't even look legal! How old is she?"
'Actually, like 130, but I try not to think about it.'
"Ewww.... at least I've got somebody in the same century as me."
'Yah, but you spend half your check on buying her crap. Mine, I just leave at the old folks home during the day with a sock full of quarters for bingo.'
There's an episode of the Outer Limits where they try something similar to this, and the guy ends up growing gills and eyes on the back of his head as a result of the robots trying to make him better.