Monday, September 7, 2009

PLASMOBOTS

The name was so awesome it had to be in all caps. The idea is pretty sweet too, scientists are using single-celled organisms to build nano-tech. There is a line in there about “building liquid logic gates for a synthetic brain,” that worries me a little (see my post “I’m pretty sure I know where this is going”), but other than that I see mainly positive applications for this kind of thing. Especially if they can be reprogrammed to build an immune system. Suddenly we’d have a cure for all disease because of its flexibility. I think it’d be a little like the bacta tanks from Star Wars. Might just be an injection if the technology advances far enough.

To think I’m going to miss all of this. The Future can’t get here quickly enough.

[Via http://thisdayinscience.wordpress.com]

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