Technology

I recently saw on TV that scientists have begun working on 'nanites' (itty bitty robots the size of cells) that are to be injected into a person's brain in order to scan, diagnose and repair what's happening in there.

Now at first this seems a bit far fetched. I agree. But is it really that out of the realm of possibilities? If you take a look at computer viruses they are able to self scan and replicate themselves via their programming; so would it be that difficult to program tiny robots to scan everything they see and fix whats wrong?

The other possibilities for these 'nanites' are the ability to not only scan and repair the human brain (and other organs I would assume) but to copy it. Which once again, isn't that far off from current possibilities. The idea would be to scan the brain and put the information onto something like a DVD (or Blue Ray Disk as it would happen to be now adays).

The implication for this are mind boggling! If you could copy your brain and have everything you knew and all of your emotions and feeling put onto a disk you could live forever! It would be like having your very own back up disk! All you would have to do is have a new host ready. The way stem cell research is heading I'm sure cloning will be legal in no time. That was always the obvious draw back to cloning, sure you can make a genetic copy of yourself but it would be nothing like you! It would have different temperaments, talents and conviction due to the different reality it grew up in. As similar as the parenting styles are between parents and offspring there are too many outside factors keeping the clone from being just like you. Plus, what good is a clone if it isn't you? I mean, wasn't the original idea behind cloning the ability to live forever?

Now it is on the verge of happening! All you would have to do is cook up a clone a few years before your time was up, burn yourself a back up disk and have instructions ready for your kids. "Upon time of my death, please download this into my awaiting 18yr old sexy self.

Everyone says, "If I could go back, knowing what I do now I would do it all different." Now you could! Think of it, you're 16 again and have all the knowledge of a previous lifetime. It's almost too good to be true! Which lucky for most of us, it isn't true.

YET.