Nano, Bio, Info, Cogno, Synthetic bio, NBICS

Where I post what I find interesting in regards to NBICS and social implications

Who’s afraid of a synthetic human? If we can enhance our species - make it live longer and resist disease - we should do it

Posted by wolbring on May 20, 2008

John Harris

In the future there will be no more human beings. This is not something we should worry about.

Much of today’s scientific research may enable us eventually to repair the terrible vulnerability to which our present state of evolution has exposed us. It is widely thought inevitable that we will have to face the end of humanity as we know it. We will either have died out altogether, killed off by self-created global warming or disease, or, we may hope, we will have been replaced by our successors.
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my columns of this year so far

Posted by wolbring on April 21, 2008

* Nano-Engineered Plastic [April 15, 2008]
* Nano Architecture and Construction
[March 30, 2008 - published by Healthwrights]
* Anti-Aging, Longevity and Immortality Technology [March 15, 2008]
* Nanotoxicology
[February 29, 2008 - published by Healthwrights]
* Nano South Africa [February 15, 2008]
* Nano Cosmetics, Sunscreen and Personal Care
[January 30, 2008 - published by Healthwrights]
* Nano-Aerospace [January 15, 2008]

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