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By Bill Freeman In the coming decades, technologies like genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology will transform humanity. A strange new world is unfolding — nightmarish to some, utopian to others. Soon we’ll have the power to reshape our children’s genes, build machines that think, and upload our minds into computers. In the coming decades, …
By Bill Freeman From US News: A growing number of researchers are aiming to build nanodevices: circuits and structures measured in nanometers, or one billionth of a meter–the length of 10 hydrogen atoms lined up in a row. Nanodevices could form the heart of superdense computer chips, more efficient solar cells, and perhaps even tiny …
By Bill Freeman Tiny tubes of DNA have been developed that could be used to wire nanoscale electronics.Source: http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2004-01-05-4 Tiny tubes of DNA have been developed that could be used to wire nanoscale electronics. Source: http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2004-01-05-4
By Bill Freeman A material that provides power from shape changes retains its properties at the nanoscale, suggesting that it could function in tiny communication devices, diagnostic instruments and robots.Source: http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2003-12-15-6 A material that provides power from shape changes retains its properties at the nanoscale, suggesting that it could function in tiny communication devices, diagnostic …
By Bill Freeman Tiny, self-assembling magnetic rings that can store information at room temperature could be a simple and cheap solution for nanoscale computer chip components.Source: http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2003-12-15-9 Tiny, self-assembling magnetic rings that can store information at room temperature could be a simple and cheap solution for nanoscale computer chip components. Source: http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2003-12-15-9
By Bill Freeman From the Washington Times, a round up of quotes, opinions and information on the role of nanomedicine in the fight against cancer. Earlier this year, the National Cancer Institute announced the ambitious, applauded goal of eliminating suffering and death due to cancer by 2015. From the Washington Times, a round up of …
By Bill Freeman You may have read Robert A. Freitas’ article “Death is an Outrage” here at the Longevity Meme. The author is well known for his scientific groundwork on nanomedicine for healthy life extension; the latest volume in his work has just been published. You may have read Robert A. Freitas’ article “Death is …
By Bill Freeman Don’t be put off by the title. Chris Phoenix of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology has penned a very accessible primer on the role of tiny machines in the future of medicine. These are the technologies that we hope will keep us all healthy in years to come. This article first appeared …
By Bill Freeman ZDNET Australia reports how A tiny structure developed by scientists at Georgia Tech could be used to detect single molecules, or as a key component in nano-devices. Scientists at the US Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) have developed a tiny “nanospring” structure that could be used to detect individual molecules, possibly …
By Bill Freeman Is the Human Life Span Infinite.Probably not, but it’s been growing fastBy Jeff KellliherHealthSCOUT ReporterMONDAY, Oct. 2(HealthSCOUT) — The Roman orator Cicero once said, “No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.” Modern science may have us allthinking that way pretty soon — and for good …