I'll start this post with a
link which contains a lengthy article which is the background to this topic.
We are fast approaching the age when nanotechnology and biology will merge. Nanobiotechnology, synthetic biology which is part biology, part machine, made possible with a nanoswitch capable of allowing electron current flow between the living and non-living. When this breakthrough happens, the line between the living and 'machine' will be very grey indeed.
Will this be the next evolutionary leap? Will life on earth break the 'carbon barrier', and will this breakthrough in evolution be a breakthrough of immaculate design at the hands of man?
Nanobiotechnology also poses many questions - it could be potentially far more dangerous than the nuclear threat!
I look forward to this 21st century and seeing what it brings!!
