Nano (2 Viewers)

[Layce Erayce]

A while back someone was educating me on the wonders of Nanotechnology. I kicked him in the nuts.

The idea at the time seemed far fetched. I thought he was pulling my leg. Turns out he was right. Turns out thats not enough to get his balls to produce sperm. Sorry. Maybe Nanotechnology can fix it. It can fix blindness right?

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/he...knitting_thread_helps_restore_brain_function/

 

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[Slagathor]

I'm a little amazed by the area they are currently developing it in. Curing blindness is surely an admirable cause that I would never stand in the way of but developing said technology will require vast sums of money that are unlikely to be earned in said area. Best to start off in potential mass-production markets such as fighting annoying but populous genes (or their allies) that cause hair-loss or loss of skin-flexibility. Make billions on that, then develop it further into smaller areas. It's less risky that way from an economical viewpoint.

Impressive developments nevertheless...

 

[Layce Erayce]

I'm a little amazed by the area they are currently developing it in. Curing blindness is surely an admirable cause that I would never stand in the way of but developing said technology will require vast sums of money that are unlikely to be earned in said area. Best to start off in potential mass-production markets such as fighting annoying but populous genes (or their allies) that cause hair-loss or loss of skin-flexibility. Make billions on that, then develop it further into smaller areas. It's less risky that way from an economical viewpoint.

Impressive developments nevertheless...

Its practical. Its realistic. But in principle its terrible. I recognise the need for funding, but to bow down to the almighty public consumption market does it a disservice. Its humiliating. And I dont mind seeing the nation's taxes go toward it instead of demeaning it by using its groundbreaking possibilities in order to serve a superficial cosmetics market and fuel our ever climbing standards of beauty. Hair loss goes down. Related mental health problems and social dysfunctions go up.

I say we keep the balding heads. And make balding beautiful. So when the world is hit with a huge disaster, effectively incapacitating advanced services and established markets, we dont have to deal with baldness-anxiety.

 

[Slagathor]

I can relate to that but fact is that we have to work our way through the world we live in. And curing blindness might not suffice in the funding, which would be a shame considering that as long as it's funded; they might even be able to move forward to curing illustrous forms of cancer.

 

[mikhail]

Erik, curing blindess is the kind of work that could fix lesser problems like myopia* and astygmia.

*of the eyes, not of the voting public, unfortunately. Not that something like that having an effect on voting would be good...

 

[Slagathor]

Oh really? I didn't know that.

I knew my lack of knowledge in the field would come back to bite me