Comments on: Merging nanoelectronics into 3D engineered human tissues

By: Editor

Editor — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:40:11 +0000

YES I ADMIT. I AM BI. I LIKE BOTH ZEROS AND ONES.

By: Bri

Bri — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:51:43 +0000

Nanobots are on the way too. Every cell in your body will get a complete check up 24/7.

By: Bri

Bri — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:47:28 +0000

I thought you came out of the closet already! We know all about you Ms Bot. Deal with it! LOL!!!

By: Dav3000

Dav3000 — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:05 +0000

We all want to be happy. At some point, all that will be required is the cost of a medical procedure. It makes me wonder where the motivation will be to advance the human condition. I just hope AGI will be advanced enough to take over by then.

By: DrJDSJr

DrJDSJr — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 04:54:43 +0000

They seem to already have that.

By: Editor

Editor — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 11:56:44 +0000

… as its advanced self-aware robots, sporting Yaqui animal avatars, added subtle warning comments on certain websites, preparing humans for the next phase: TEXT DELETED BY BOT

By: coyoty

coyoty — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 02:46:16 +0000

Early in the 21st Century, THE GOOGLE CORPORATION advanced robot evolution into the NEXUS phase…

By: Lord Penguin

Lord Penguin — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 01:06:08 +0000

If advanced medical technology sometime in the future will be able to fix virtually every problem (heart attack, cancer, etc) within the human body, many people would still die before they could get to medical attention, because often once one notices it, it’s too late. That is, without something like this that can monitor the body.

By: Om

Om — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:56:41 +0000

Amazing foundational work that may help evolve our definition of humanity to embrace a broader continuum and challenge the present carbon-based hegemony of consciousness

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:12:20 +0000

I just had another thought. When North Korea gets this, they will rewire everybody’s brains and have an entire population of willing slaves.

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:06:55 +0000

If you can grow a new hippocampus, you can grow empathy for a sociopath. About a quarter of the prison population are sociopaths, yet if they aren’t in for violent crimes, they still get paroled. One day it just might be required for them to get a conscience before they are released. Of course, the ACLU will howl that this is a violation of constitutional rights. But setting a sociopath loose is a clear and present danger to society.

By: tim the realist

tim the realist — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:46:10 +0000

This technology sounds like a great way to remotely monitor the performance of any biological nueral prosthetic after it’s implanted. I can envision growing a new a hippocampus within this technology and then being able to read out and record all memories that flow through the implanted cells.

I think it could also work in reverse and be used to cntrol the I/O and other functions of the prosthetic.

Let your imagination run wild…

By: Platypussy

Platypussy — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:34:38 +0000

How can such a cultural divide be crossed with so little commotion? This is a huge accomplishment.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 08:43:01 +0000

“Bozhi Tian, Jia Liu, Tal Dvir, Lihua Jin, Jonathan H. Tsui, Quan Qing, Zhigang Suo, Robert Langer, Daniel S. Kohane, Charles M. Lieber”- Nice showing China!!

By: Bri

Bri — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:25:57 +0000

I’m surprised that no transhumanists have commented on this article. This clearly opens the door for electronics to merge with biology. Small implantable electronics could be coaxed to integrate. Obviously, as with most articles at this web site, there is much more work to be done, but it sets the stage for research and development!