A website after my own heart - by way of miniature robots rampaging through the blood stream. CNB labs dot com appears to be a start-up company called "Chicago Nanobionics Labs", but their most recent blog post is titled "Nanobionics - Dooming the World? We think not."
Now I must admit the barely-restrained luddite deep within me has all sorts of kneejerk reactions to this, but I gotta say there's something pretty awesome about reading that work is being done on fighting cancer with nanites. I went under the knife and radiation a few years back, and I find the idea of miniature robots sailing through my veins just slightly less frightening than either of the main treatments I did undergo. Is it possible to be a luddite and a transhumanist at the same time? 'Cause given the choice between chemo and nano, I'd choose to be a robot farm every time.
Alas, there'll be no personal-nano-invasion in my immediate future, as the only clinical trial they have going on is for people with no history of neural or skin disorders. Maybe there'll be a second round later where they pump robots into freaks like me.
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Other thoughts that didn't quite fit the theme of the original post, but were worth mentioning.
Odd Tangent #1: On a side note, I can't help but feel there's something very Lynchian about the top banner. It makes me think of Twin Peaks - then again, I find Twin Peaks references all over the place, so maybe it's not surprising. I find it kinda compelling, with the blue and the zigzags and the little "owl cave"-like logo squares, but at the same time mildy disturbing. I may like to watch David Lynch films, but I'm not sure I want him injecting robots into my body.
Odd Tangent #2: CNB labs? Maybe I spend too much time gaming, but when I see CNB, I think "Chemical, Nuclear, Biological". That's a poor choice of acronym if you're trying to dispel fear of your revolutionary product.
Brings to mind the old '60's movie where they shrink some doctors and scientists in a submarine and inject them into a human.
That would solve our over-population problem too. And I bet making smaller humans would reduce global warming, and end world hunger. Damn, this is an awesome plan. We should shrink the world population. That wouldn't do anything about the cancer, then, but maybe we'll just shrink doctors twice.
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