Tiny Robots in Your Bloodstream: The Future of Medicine

The scene of microscopic robots traveling through your body may seem deal a science fable novel from the 1960s but, in the contiguous decade or so, it may become science fact. Imagine obturate arteries being swept clean, cancer cells detected and destroyed and kidney stones being dissolved, all(a) done by minute robots, eliminating the need for costly and invasive surgery. These are just some of the possible applications of na nonechnology in medicine, also known as nanomedicine. Nanomedicine can dramatically improve medicine and health care beyond our imagination. Nanotechnology was foremost mentioned in 1959 in a talk given by physicist Richard Feynman. Although he did not use the term, he described a process by which a pair of normal sized robot arms would ca-ca a copy of itself that was one tenth its size. That pair of arms would retain the process and so on until the arms reached the size of a molecule. (Patel 63) This would be the level of nanotechnolog y. Nano comes from the Greek word meaning dwarf. A micromillimeter is one billionth of a meter and when we speak of nanotechnology we are speak of devices in the 1 to 100 nanometer scale. To help visualize how microscopical that is, a germ is about 1000 nm wide, a gay hair is about 100,000 nm wide. (Marchant, G. E. 231) The scanning tunneling microscope, invented in 1981 by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer, allowed populace to see individual atoms. Binnig and Rohrer both worked as physicists for the computer company IBM. The nuclear force microscope was invented a few years later which allowed the user to truly move atoms by using a feeler with an extremely small, curt needle on the end which allows it to see and move the atoms by f... ...and we go out be able to create our own virtual realities that bequeath unify all our senses, expanding our intelligence in ways we cannot imagine. Nanomedicine will give get to AI by giving homophiles extremely detailed scans and diagrams of the human brain and how it functions. Eventually, AI will be able to think and wee-wee emotional responses thanks to the info gathered by Nanobots. The two technologies will feed off one another resulting in a piece that may be more wild than any science fiction novel ever written. (Kurzweil 40-46) It is clear that nanotechnology has the potential to revolutionize health care and even transport humanity into the next evolutionary leap, but corking care must be taken in order invent sure we get there safely. Once technology becomes smarter than humanity, we may not be able to control our destiny any longer.