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Nano Technology
The Future of Medicine
The medical industry is reaching its limits with current technology. The needed innovations that have been promised in the past are not coming to fruition. Engineers and medical professionals are on the verge of ground breaking technology in the form of tiny robots that are being coined "nanobots".
The uses of this technology are debated and seemed to be limited only to the imagination. Cancer, viruses and even mental illnesses may be cured by a simple injection of these nanobots. How would this work? Well, the problem with today's medicine is not the understanding of any disease or even the cause, the problem is the cure. Doctors and researchers now rely on biological cures such as antibiotics grown from mold spores and incubated and harvested. The problem we are now starting to face is the threat of these agents becoming antibiotic resistant. Oncologists today rely on chemotherapy which is in all sense injecting patients with radioactive material. This method is highly dangerous and in most cases offers only a minimal chance of recovery. Nanobots in theory would be injected into the body per-programmed to attack and eliminate any foreign bodies like cancer cells and viruses. And in theory the side effects along with survival percentages would be nonexistent with a 100% survival rate.
One hurdle that have to be overcome in this technology is the one that we are facing now in larger scales and that is energy (power). With the scale of these nanobots, battery and solar options are not viable solutions. Nuclear power, would seem to best solution and would be applied by painting on the surface and having the nanobot absorb the energy of the decaying atomic material (http://www.microscopemaster.com/nanobots.html).
The small scale of the atomic material ideally would be passed through the body with no side effects. This of course is only one of several problems we face with the manufacturing of this technology but, in my opinion the greatest.
Another problem I mention is that of science fiction but, as I mentioned before we are limited to our imaginations.
“Sure, at some level scientists know nanobots will destroy mankind. They just can't resist seeing how it happens” (David Wong). This quote by David Wong I mention because it sums up the fear that we face with any new technology. I also mention this because debates rage on in our modern society on how people should not play God and by interfering in the natural we doom ourselves by our own hands. Do you believe these ideas? I guess we have to ask ourselves in the long wrong run if life is worth exploring and fighting for. Is the cost and research of this technology is more important than ones persons beliefs or personal fortunes. Are we on the verge of prolonging life and exploring in technology our maximum human potential or are we grasping at straws?
Nanobots are the future of medicine and means to an end of countless generations being cut short by cancer and disease. The technology is not a question of "if" its a fact of "when".
The uses of this technology are debated and seemed to be limited only to the imagination. Cancer, viruses and even mental illnesses may be cured by a simple injection of these nanobots. How would this work? Well, the problem with today's medicine is not the understanding of any disease or even the cause, the problem is the cure. Doctors and researchers now rely on biological cures such as antibiotics grown from mold spores and incubated and harvested. The problem we are now starting to face is the threat of these agents becoming antibiotic resistant. Oncologists today rely on chemotherapy which is in all sense injecting patients with radioactive material. This method is highly dangerous and in most cases offers only a minimal chance of recovery. Nanobots in theory would be injected into the body per-programmed to attack and eliminate any foreign bodies like cancer cells and viruses. And in theory the side effects along with survival percentages would be nonexistent with a 100% survival rate.
One hurdle that have to be overcome in this technology is the one that we are facing now in larger scales and that is energy (power). With the scale of these nanobots, battery and solar options are not viable solutions. Nuclear power, would seem to best solution and would be applied by painting on the surface and having the nanobot absorb the energy of the decaying atomic material (http://www.microscopemaster.com/nanobots.html).
The small scale of the atomic material ideally would be passed through the body with no side effects. This of course is only one of several problems we face with the manufacturing of this technology but, in my opinion the greatest.
Another problem I mention is that of science fiction but, as I mentioned before we are limited to our imaginations.
“Sure, at some level scientists know nanobots will destroy mankind. They just can't resist seeing how it happens” (David Wong). This quote by David Wong I mention because it sums up the fear that we face with any new technology. I also mention this because debates rage on in our modern society on how people should not play God and by interfering in the natural we doom ourselves by our own hands. Do you believe these ideas? I guess we have to ask ourselves in the long wrong run if life is worth exploring and fighting for. Is the cost and research of this technology is more important than ones persons beliefs or personal fortunes. Are we on the verge of prolonging life and exploring in technology our maximum human potential or are we grasping at straws?
Nanobots are the future of medicine and means to an end of countless generations being cut short by cancer and disease. The technology is not a question of "if" its a fact of "when".