Nanotech is useless?

Question

In my opinion there is very little they can do inside the body that cannot already be done outside for cheaper and easier means.... blood sugar, heartrate,injury,emotion can all be metered all ready through modernday sensory uniforms...am i missing something...what advantages are there...the only one i can really think of is medical being able to produce higher doses(bad spelling sorry) or natural antibiotics

Answer 1

No, most medical conditions have to reach serious levels before they are detected and treated "generally invasively" with nanotech it would be possible to treat the very earliest symptoms.

Having them inside full time would be the best option.

Answer 2

Ah, the sweet voice of reason!

Yes, nanotech (like many emerging scientific fields) is way overhyped.  There are two reasons for this:

1. The main reason is that biotechnology companies raise money based upon hope and dreams, not upon daily scientific realities.  As long as the sucker investors keep ponying up the dough, the biotech community will continue the gross exaggeration.

2. Scientists, like artists, tend to be somewhat fanciful and not so practical in their thinking.  They want to do things because it's "neat" or "cool" and ignore the impracticality or cost.

I am a seasoned biotech insider with a PhD, so I have significant insight into the psychology both of those within the industry and those who want to invest in the industry.  I deplore the typical practice of over-hyping the technology; however, if you don't do it to a certain extent, you'll never raise a dime.  Why should the investor give a stoic realist any money when there are ten other guys promising him the moon?  Investors/philanthropists don't fall in love with reality.  They fall in love with the dream...

Answer 3

Nanotech can be very useful for things like surgery (faster healing, less time in the hospital and hop-fully less pain), organ and tissue repair, and faster medicine delivery (nanotech will release the medicine to where it is needed instead of the medicine having to travel the entire human blood system). But nanotech may not just improve medicine, it may also help with construction. Nanotech can build using individual molecules. It can and will be used to improve on current technology. For example, imagine how much more power your computer will have if you double, triple or more its capacity, with nanotech, this can be done ( by making everything smaller) using the same physical space it has now. Its hard to imagine just how much nanotech can really do. But its possibilities are almost endless.

Answer 4

The idea is that nanotech could, at least down the line (it's barely even been started on actually), could treat numerous diseases, deal with genetic disorders, fortify our immune systems, effectively transport necessary molecules to specific locations in the body, repair damaged tissues faster than the body normally would, and lead to effectively better health all around.  We are no where near reaching the advances taht would cause these to be possible, but when they do come into existance, nanotech may become the most tremendous medical advance in the history of humankind.

Answer 5

It is far too early in the history of this new technology to say that nanotechnology is useless.  It is equivalent to saying that flying is useless if one had only seen the first experiment by the Wright brothers.