Scientest seeks Eternal Youth, takes 250 supplements each day

[bran987]

what the

 

[Sub-Zero]

Kurzweil later conceded that radically extending human life could lead to a "deep ennui" if nothing else changed, but he believes we will grow smarter and vastly improve our quality of life. Nanobots, if we let them swim around our brain capillaries, will boost our brainpower, he said, as they chatter with our biological neurons over a wireless local network and the Internet, creating a hybrid form of super-intelligence.

"This scenario will enable us to expand our mental faculties through these massively distributed neural implants with no surgery required," he added.

dude, but wtf if the nanobots start CONTROLLING the brain, and your body is taken over by a bunch of small robots?

 

[bran987]

dude, but wtf if the nanobots start CONTROLLING the brain, and your body is taken over by a bunch of small robots?

I'm not a Bush supporter or hater but for some reason I could totally see him asking that question in a debate

 

[CrayonOfDoom2]

LOL what a load of crap.

Magic nanobots that fix stuff in your body. We are so far away from anything useful in nanobot tech. And in spite of mapping the genome they are still decades away from comprehending all the interactions between genes and their expression.

And how does he expect to "power" these nanobots? Or wil he just keep injecting them as they die out? And what happens to all the byproducts of the nanites???

Our biochemistry has no effecive way to deal with the metabolism of an artificial organism? Eventually they would build up in the blood stream and no amount of drugs could repair the damage they would cause.

And of course a nanite would be very sensitive to external radioation.. unless of course it were a chemical based nanite.. which itself would be prone to aging and degredation leading back to systemic buildup of nanite byproduct.

We are A LOT further than 30 years away from something like this.

Drugs and gene therapy hold much more promis in the short term (next 100 years) for slowing aging.


But ANYONE who thinks we can completely halt aging in the next few hundred years with ANY technology thats even in the theory phase hasnt spent too much time studying biology.

I'm reminded of the exponential progression of technology, we've already come from house-sized computers to mini lap-tops in the last 50 years or whatever, it wouldn't surprise me if it only took us 10% of that time to go from lap-tops to nanobots that actually work inside of us. (dramatization).

But I'm rarely surprised with our species, unfortunately.

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

This is defnitely good news! If I got the chance I might even loan myself to them to try their well studied experiments on

Peter Matthews

This is one of the funniest screen names I have seen here in 5 years.

 

[Lestat]

nanotechnology is not for naught, companies like Samsung are funding development.

My old roommate was a phD and was working in nanotechnology.. he said that within our lifetime they'll be able to use them for things like clearing arteries of bad cholesterol, and repairing damaged cells of internal organs.

 

[bran987]

nanotechnology is not for naught, companies like Samsung are funding development.

My old roommate was a phD and was working in nanotechnology.. he said that within our lifetime they'll be able to use them for things like clearing arteries of bad cholesterol, and repairing damaged cells of internal organs.

The absolutely will.

Oh Lestat, I just thought of the stock you want. The one you wanted to play with for $500 and buy 50 shares.

I bought it at 9 but it's only at $11.50 now, and it moves and it's involved with Samsung.

give me your email address. give it to me, it is all clear now!