Future Technology

There are many way to extend life at this point of time but there are many possibilities for the future as well. With the human imagination there are many fasciation ways to extend the human life just look at some of science fiction novels or TV show. Just to name a few possible ways that will be cover in this part of the paper; nanotechnology or nanomedicine, stem cell, cloning and the always classic cryonics. These methods are in the planning stage.

First of the method of the future is nanotechnology or Nanomedicine in the medical field which is what we are covering. What is nanotechnology exactly? Nanotechnologies are small robots or machines that are engineered do thing a molecular level which the word nano mean small. The field of Nanomedicine is using nanorobots to fix the human body. At this point of time is still in the planning stage but there hope for result in Nanomedicine as early as the 2020’s (Freitas).

What are Nanorobots? They are like normal robots that are made out thousands of mechanical part like bearing and gear made out of strong material. Like any machine they have motors the make things move, maybe mechanical legs or arm for motion and it will have a power source, sensor to help control it action and final an onboard computer to help it do it job. There are thing about nanorobots that are unlike normal robot it is very small so it can it get into place that normal robot cannot like the bloodstream in a human body. These have to be smaller than red blood cell, which is the size seven microns wide, to be able to move around in our bloodstream. A micron is about one millionth of meter for. A blood-borne nanorobot which was built for medical reason is about two to three microns and parts for these machines a...

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...pe in the human body can be created and works well with human already existing cells (West, Page 1).

These cells have caused a lot of excitement because they can be mass-producing replacement cells for the treatment of a host of degenerative diseases involving the loss or dysfunction of cells. These types of diseases including those in osteoarthritis, macular degeneration, diabetes, heart failure, Parkinson’s disease, and numerous other disorders. This type of medical field is called regenerative medicine and it has the potential of rejuvenating an entire human body (West, Page 1).

Works Cited

Freitas, R. A. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2009/jan2009_Nanotechnology-Radically-Extended-Life-Span_01.htm

West, M. How engineered stem cells may enable youthful immortality. Retrieved from http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2013/feb2013_otc_01.htm