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Originally Posted by Kal
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.
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I think the fast approach is overhyped. It may happen, but not anytime soon.
Many years ago i read a book on the "Biological Time Bomb", and how the next developments in medicine would be unbelievable. They haven't happened but maybe someday we will live forever - when cancer and heart disease is defeated then it is just a matter of replacing the parts that wear out. This is where nanotechnology fits in rather neatly.
Some scientists seriously talk of being able to live forever, just a matter of keeping the body and brain in running order with little nanobots.
But not in my lifetime, I don't think.