A new medical application for nanotech.
- Thread starter mike wightman
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Greetings and salutations,
I read the article and I see great potential with the technology, but I do have a question. I always found pain to be a great indicator that something is wrong with my body. How will the nanites signal the person they are within that something is afoot? It will have to be something that the person will take notice and call a doctor immediately. The upside/downside to this is monitoring stations would be built and people will be employed, but you as an individual will be monitored around the clock. Someone, somewhere will know what you are doing based on the data received from the nanites.
That whole privacy thing just went out the window.
Let me go rant and rave somewhere else now.
I read the article and I see great potential with the technology, but I do have a question. I always found pain to be a great indicator that something is wrong with my body. How will the nanites signal the person they are within that something is afoot? It will have to be something that the person will take notice and call a doctor immediately. The upside/downside to this is monitoring stations would be built and people will be employed, but you as an individual will be monitored around the clock. Someone, somewhere will know what you are doing based on the data received from the nanites.
That whole privacy thing just went out the window.Let me go rant and rave somewhere else now.
M
Malenfant
Guest
You can check yourself. Like in the article, stick a gizmo in your ear and that listens to what the nanites broadcast, and then you decide to see a doctor based on that.
Can it be abused? Sure it can. But then, so can everything. Is that reason not to use it? No. Think what would have happened if people had thought "I've come up with the concept of a hammer! It'll be great, I can use a hammer to help build things! Or I could use it to bash someone's skull in. So because the technology can be abused, we mustn't invent it."
There's risks in everything. Maybe some of the things that we're coming up with are more risky than a hammer, but if go down that path we'll just end up sitting on our hands for fear of doing ANYTHING, and we get nowhere. I'm all for rational and reasoned ethics, but not for irrational fear and paranoia and extreme "what if" situations.
Can it be abused? Sure it can. But then, so can everything. Is that reason not to use it? No. Think what would have happened if people had thought "I've come up with the concept of a hammer! It'll be great, I can use a hammer to help build things! Or I could use it to bash someone's skull in. So because the technology can be abused, we mustn't invent it."
There's risks in everything. Maybe some of the things that we're coming up with are more risky than a hammer, but if go down that path we'll just end up sitting on our hands for fear of doing ANYTHING, and we get nowhere. I'm all for rational and reasoned ethics, but not for irrational fear and paranoia and extreme "what if" situations.
Greetings and salutations,
I do offer a sincere apology, Malenfant. I did not desire to come across as irrationally fearful and/or paranoid. I was merely ranting and raving (its been a really bad week). Unfortunately, this particular rant was fuelled by a previous rant two minutes before I read the article.
I am all for inventors coming up with new things for us to abuse and/or hurt ourselves with in our lives. Or someone else's.
How else would we keep ourselves entertained? Fear and/or paranoia will help us keep others in line.
*deposits two credits in the collection box*
I do offer a sincere apology, Malenfant. I did not desire to come across as irrationally fearful and/or paranoid. I was merely ranting and raving (its been a really bad week). Unfortunately, this particular rant was fuelled by a previous rant two minutes before I read the article.
I am all for inventors coming up with new things for us to abuse and/or hurt ourselves with in our lives. Or someone else's.
How else would we keep ourselves entertained? Fear and/or paranoia will help us keep others in line.*deposits two credits in the collection box*
Chuck Anumia
SOC-14 1K
I am all for advancing technology but I desire for those who will use it to be resposible for not abusing the rights or freedoms of the people who will use these things. Anyone could put someone to sleep who is using these things and listen to what is going on inside their body. What is to prevent them from planting suggestions or reading their minds using this technology? Can the inventors put locks or codes into theses things? We have here some great plot material to be used for good or bad as the PC's desire.
