[BipolarBob]

I saw that guy on T2. Even when he was burned by fire he kept going. Yeah! Give me some of that to drink. I wanna be like him.

[ClearCase_guy]

each one of us has the right to change our own human nature.

The thing you can change is not the thing known as Human Nature. Human Nature is the thing that is unchangeable.

Also: watch out! The Singularity approaches.

[gaijin]

The lefties flipped over biotech, and they're going to flip BIG TIME over nanotech.

It presents a great opportunity to beat themselves on the chest about how CAUTIOUS they are, about how they're LOOKING OUT FOR US by holding all this R + D up.

Yes, they're going to save us from GREY GOO...!

And unable to contribute in a substantial way, they'll ask to be paid from the suffering and waiting that they put us to.

[WriteOn]

Kool-aid y'all?

[neverdem]

Engineers Report Breakthrough in Laser Beam Technology

What makes Kevlar® so strong? And how can it be so light at the same time?

Mother's milk helps to block HIV

Lewis X component in human milk binds DC-SIGN and inhibits HIV-1 transfer to CD4 T lymphocytes. (As opposed to a follower of Calypso Louie)

FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list. Anyone can post any unrelated link as they see fit.

[AntiGuv]

FutureTechPing!

An emergent technologies list covering biomedical research, fusion power, nanotech, AI robotics, and other related fields. FReepmail to join or drop.

[little jeremiah]

later read/ping.

[processing please hold]

I don't like nanotechnology, too many frighting ways it can be used to the detriment of humans.

Here's a fairly good sight with so good links in it.

HERE

[taxed2death]

"...he believes that nanotech will erase the distinction between living and non-living matter."

Two words:

Pet rock.

[strategofr]

"Waiting until the ethicists catch up with scientific and technological progress is a recipe for technological stagnation. Slowing innovation is not cost free. It makes a difference to tens of millions of people whether a cure for cancer or heart disease is found in 2010 or 2020.

In general, human ethical advancements and understanding follow—and in fact have to follow—in the wake of scientific and technological progress. Why? Because humanity is just terrible at foresight."

This is not the problem. The fact is, we know that technological progress will not stop---because competition doesn't stop. Occasssionally, mankind can step back from the brink for awhile---witness 6 decades without anyone dropping a nuke on people---but that is a particularly obvious and horrible problem.

This nano stuff will creep forward into the world and no person or country can stop it. If the US stopped it in the US, we'd just fall behind everyone else, in defense, business, etc.

Frankly, I'm glad I'll be dead of old age before most of this stuff goes too far---or at least too old to give a hoot.

It all sounds like a nightmare.

But I will say this. The basics of life will change less than people imagine. There will still be some scarce resources---and people will still compete over them.

[edsheppa]

Human nature belongs to each individual human being, and each one of us has the right to change our own human nature.

So it'd be OK for them to choose to become say psychopaths or homocidal maniacs?

[steve-b]

Goldstein also wants researchers to begin a "dialogue" with the public about these impending revolutionary changes.

The one and only proper place for this "dialogue" to occur (given the stipulation that reasonable safety checking has been carried out) is between the creators and owners of the new technologies and their potential customers.