How much will Nanotech change our life!?

[Kootje]

I think that in the future, most threats and diseases will be gone. At least we know a way to cure, cancer&aids. It also would be nice for a human to be able to fly. what do you guys think is this possible.

[Delta]

I think that in the future, most threats and diseases will be gone. At least we know a way to cure, cancer&aids. It also would be nice for a human to be able to fly. what do you guys think is this possible.

... having nano tech means we get to fly? *****in'.

On a more serious note I think that nano tech could help revoutionize many areas, such as materials engineering and medicine.

[Akiha]

personally, nanoteh would be great for healing diseases and such, but if they were inserted somewhere into our bodies, the gov could havde absolute control over us. nanotech is also very expensive and could cost alot...

on a side note, how would the nanotech get withdrawn from the body...? >.> *worries*

[Ryukuu]

I think Nano techonoly will help us alot! Can't wait to see some real results. I think this is very interesting!..

Broke your leg? Fix it with nano tech :D

[Daeruke]

it will be jsut like in ff7. the echnology goes bad. now for the serious matters, nano technology could heal lots of us, but the bad people could use it to make better weaps.

[dragoneyes001]

currently nanotechnology would not be a Frankenstein horror simply because the nanobots would have very specific directions to follow.

they would not be independent AIs in other words if you were suffering from cancer they could be programed to deal with the cancer but that's all they would do.

but they could also do stuff like stimulate growth of muscles and many other applications they would just be limited at first to simple tasks because of the size we currently don't have the technology to add a lot of memory/functions to each nanobot.

[Kootje]

If you can control the bots with your mind it would be fantastic, but for 'bad'people it will be a reason for more destruction =(

[Sarteck]

Nanotechnology could be awesome. Heh. Imagine simply pressing a button to initiate a painkiller sequence on some kind of remote. ^_^ Bai bai headache! Getting too fat? Have the Nanobots recharge themselves using the energy of your fat cells! Diabetic? Get those nanobots to aid your kidneys so you can eat like I do! ^_^ It doesn't have to be limited to the nanobots INSIDE your body, either... Don't like the dentist because of drills? Swish around a solution containing nanobots inside your mouth to get your teeth all pearly white and clean. :3

'Course, with the good comes the bad... Nanobots could also be developed for use in biological warfare... Imagine the thread of some nanobot released into the drinking supply that could be activated via satallite to carry out harmful instructions, like boring holes through your blood vessels, making you die of internal bleeding. D:

[Kootje]

That would suck big time, hapily drinking water than you die=(

[Tokoyami]

personally, nanoteh would be great for healing diseases and such, but if they were inserted somewhere into our bodies, the gov could havde absolute control over us. nanotech is also very expensive and could cost alot...
on a side note, how would the nanotech get withdrawn from the body...? >.> *worries*
Same way u get of grandpa's bad cooking.

As for Nanotech as a weapon. Release the nanobots into the water system over the coarse of a year or so. Then when everyone has a good dose, tell all the nano bots to bind to muscles and tendants. Then, when you go to war with that country, tell the nanobots to begin cutting.

Gruesome yet effective.

But on the plus side of things, nanobots could be used to perform delicate surgeries that would otherwise pose a danger to the patients life because the operater is human.

[AznPoi]

I think it's already is being used for heart patients. It flows with the blood and give back readings such as blood sugar and what nots.

[Gyousei-Sama]

I'd like to see nanotech repair lost limbs and flesh wounds. You know, like tiny robots sewing your body back together, that would be interesting, especially in the medical industry.

[THanatosX]

it cant be used as a weapon because it is not cost effective

[dragoneyes001]

nanobots are also being tested to remove clots in hearts and brains although since a simple flexible tube with an insert can do the same its unlikely to be worth the cost.

[AznPoi]

it cant be used as a weapon because it is not cost effective

Everything new started out that way. Computers were like $10,000 when it first came out. Not only that, it was in DOS mode so you had to type in commands. Now computers are cheap as dirt, $500 will get a decent computer. Heck, Dell sells them for $299. So when nanotechology first come out, it will be expensive. However, as time goes on it will be much cheaper.

Just a little side fact, during the week we were at war with Afhangistan (sp), we launch I think about 20 cruise missile from the Persian Sea. Each of those cruise missiles are $100,000.

So, money isn't that big of a deal for the military.

[chiking1]

Nano-technology can probably cure AIDS, and other viruses as stated above. This is because it can go into our circulatory system, and 'kill' all our malfunctioning cells, or the bacteria. If we (by we I mean people researching things) master nano-technology, not as many people would die because of viruses or diseases, and weapons will become extremely dangerous, because they can attack our blood stream, killing our muscles because of lack of oxygen.

[ravenx]

Nano-technology will have a huge impact on cancer treatment and internal surgery.You will be able to manipulate the human genome and maybe obtain imortality, fast tisue regeneration, the ability to interact with computers using your mind.
But at the moment nano-technology is still in it's most early stages. The only curent nano-technology that exist is vaporazing aluminium under a plasama torch an obtaining a very fine powder that can increase the power of sollid fuel rockets.

[M-50]

Nanotechnology will revolutionise the world as we know it. Keyhole surgery will become obsolete. Nanotech will allow more operations to be completed successfully, there will be a greater chance that severed nerves in the spinal cord that usually result in paralysis will be repaired curing paralysis. The nanobots can be sent into the bloodstream and can be programmed to fight viruses that currently have no cure like HIV, AIDS, MRSA, Mengitis etc. Buildings can be strengthened as the bots can fuse new bonds withing a material and therefore can help to build upon what buildings we currently have. So earthquake resistant buildings can be made more earthquake resistant using the bots. Tidal walls like the ones they use in New Orleans can be made to withstand more years of abuse by the ocean.

[Kurai-chan]

all of us know that nanotechnology is advantageous today and will be more advantageous in the future. some things[like the things that were stated in the previous posts[curing diseases, etc.]] that people thought were impossible are being made possible because of this. but of course, we have to be careful and not abuse this nanotechnology because for every advantage that we get from these, sometimes we also get an equivalent disadvantage which can harm either us or our environment..

[Kootje]

Nano-technology will have a huge impact on cancer treatment and internal surgery.You will be able to manipulate the human genome and maybe obtain imortality, fast tisue regeneration, the ability to interact with computers using your mind.
But at the moment nano-technology is still in it's most early stages. The only curent nano-technology that exist is vaporazing aluminium under a plasama torch an obtaining a very fine powder that can increase the power of sollid fuel rockets.
Well when I started this thread it was because I read a National geographic magazine, where's stated, that the can cure cancer on mice,make glas that can resist any fire, do hartsugery a lot easier, and they can cut a chicken in half an make him together, without stitches in 5minutes, this they can do right now! Of course it will take another 50years, of chimpresearch before we can use it. Tought imortality will not work maybe you can keep your body fit but a soul can't keep up forever so there's a end somewhere

[Fect]

I don't want to close another thread today, so please keep the 1-liners out. It just hurts me to read it.

[James Cizuz]

Everything new started out that way. Computers were like $10,000 when it first came out. Not only that, it was in DOS mode so you had to type in commands. Now computers are cheap as dirt, $500 will get a decent computer. Heck, Dell sells them for $299. So when nanotechology first come out, it will be expensive. However, as time goes on it will be much cheaper.
Just a little side fact, during the week we were at war with Afhangistan (sp), we launch I think about 20 cruise missile from the Persian Sea. Each of those cruise missiles are $100,000.
So, money isn't that big of a deal for the military.
If your talking about those computer back in late 70's early 80's then yeah your right on the 10,000$ part(apart from a few computers)
The first considered "computer"(I beg to differ with the "experts" that say it was the first, there was "computers" before it) which was built in 1945-1949 which was by scale costing $500,000$(back in 1940's....) It contained 17,468 vacuum tubes, 7,200 crystal diodes, 1,500 relays, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors and around 5 million hand-soldered joints. It weighed 30 short tons (27 t). The first massive supercomputer baught by NASA cost near 200 million by todays standards, and had less memory and calculation speed then the old bulky gameboys.

The thing is tech will always increase, finding eaiser ways to manufacture, make, and faster ways of doing it making it cheaper. Nano tech~ is the same but people are taking it for granted. We cannot use Nano tech to help people for awhile, because were working with little small balls about 1/20th the size of a cell, and to manipulate them into doing what you want is never a easy task, it will begin progressing by making simple machines like they are now(like the smallest car made out of Nano tech, which you can fit 1000 of them on the tip of a human hair) then it will move to making the simple machines build bigger more complex machines, in then it will grow yet again, untill we can make something useful to humans.

I was gunna bring up the argument about people going on about nano tech curing AIDS, Canser, etc etc, when theirs already a cure for AIDS(goverment says they need to do more tests but a guys been AIDS free for 3 years, because the treatment could "hurt" the patient. What would you rather, die a horrible death to AIDS? or use a cure that could "hurt" you but you will be healed. Of course thats just the goverments way of saying "we wanna do 15 more years of test for the drug companys to still make billions off the treatments we have now to pinch out as much money from the consumer" then you'll get people saying "why would the goverment do that" one word "money".)

[Analog]

well it definetly has the possibility to be very helpful and improve peoples lives in many ways, but the question is with this technology how will the government want to use it and there first priority might not be what it should be

[M-50]

well it definetly has the possibility to be very helpful and improve peoples lives
It already has in many different ways. For example they have used gold nanoparticles to cure cancer I believe it was. I will try to get all the details for you in my next post.