It's the hardware/software system that manages the contruction and ongoing maintenance of the human body. Now some genius wants to upgrade it — actually, replace it with a whole new system.
And I mean that quite sincerely. The genius is none other than Ray Kurzweil:
Ray Kurzweil has proposed a nanobiotechnology research program to replace the cell nucleus and ribosome machinery with a nanocomputer and nanobot to prevent diseases and aging and another program to create defensive technologies against rogue designer viruses.
Kurzweil presented the ideas in a keynote at the recent "Breakthrough Technologies for the World's Biggest Problems" conference on April 28, sponsored by the Arlington Institute.
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Posted by Phil at April 30, 2004 12:48 PM | TrackBackIs a person without DNA human? I'd say no, even if he took on the exact shape and appearance of a human. The person would not be biologically related to the human race.
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I think it will be some time before we see any people with a different biological molecule than DNA. I would suspect we will see long before that people with significantly different DNA.
What would Michael Jackson look like if he were free to tamper with his DNA? He might complete his "Planet of the Apes" look.
Posted by: Stephen Gordon at May 1, 2004 05:26 AMThey'd be posthuman. And sign me up for this as soon as possible. Being human sucks - I despise being human. I'm ready for something better ASAP.
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