Nanotechnology, Fantastic possiblities fantastic dangers Options

[Intestinal Chaos]

Who here personaly views nanotechnology (especially the possibilities nanobots) as as a positive thing? Personally I'm split, we could do fantastic and terrible things. Overall it seems to dangerous though, a possibility that we could make an army of bots that replicate and repair themselves that are designed to deconstruct organic matter seems a little to risky to me. I just know somebody will try to use it as a weapon. On the other hand it could make fantastic leaps and bounds in health care and even slow then eventually stop aging (which is fantastic to think of but definently NOT worth doing).

Like I said before, overall it's just too dangerous.

[Megil Tel-Zeke]

hmm this is all fascinating, but i had a different idea of nano tech. read an article about it. apparently they are using genetically altered viruses that attract gold and stuff, to make microchips. and also they have managed to organize a certain organic compound that has memory abilities and can exceed the amount of memory of current hard drives, but are way way smaller.

yah i can't quite remember the article exactly, its been about 7 months since i read it. But i do know it has to do with building computers out of organic compounds instead of the stuff we currently buil it from. since it would be cheaper to build it from cells to microchips instead of the current process where they start with these huge numbers of resouces and have to keep chucnking it down smaller and smaller, costing more to manufacture.

sry if it made no sense -.-