On the plus side, if nanotech ever gets far enough along that we're doing complex manipulation of the CNS, then we'll have to have gone through the point where we can use it for targeted therapy (ex: cancer, HIV, MS etc.).

If you want to worry about something right NOW, worry about people patenting genes. It happens, and it's disgusting. :(

Or maybe it's already happened

*cue evil laugh*

@Ghost:

Oh I now that, it can help many people with those kinds of sicknesses. Also patenting genes is creepy.

freedom toast I wouldn't be so certain, well unless your 70. there are more than a few major scientists who are saying that the rate of scientific progress especially in the field of nanotechnology means that someone on this planet may be abnout the live forever. Big question is how old is that person?

Nanotechnology could in theory keep the human body in perfect condition indefinitely and that may be less than 50 years off. Think about what we didn't have 50 years ago, hell think about what we didn't have 10 years ago. scientific progress is almost exponential.

So if you really want to be scared of nano technology be scared of a world where nobody grows old and all material goods are worthless because anything can be created at the touch of a button. I'd like to see what the economists would have to say of a world like that.

I think they're hawt. I want the ability to manipulate and control them. I'd be Mr. Replicator Borg-type person. Like Magneto, only less old and less German.

FreedomToast:
According to the dude at GDC, we won't be. I think he said we can look forward to nanomachines in something like fifty years or less.

Which means, now I kind of want to live that long just so I can see the world begin to go to shit as we slowly become transmorphed into technozombies, then die of old age before things get really bad and the Robo-revolution begins.

Bush has a few months left

Armageddon can still happen

just gotta believe