Nanotechnology and "The End of Medicine" - Andy Kessler

[xsmicro]

Someone just have to weigh things between the positives and negatives and choose the lesser evil.

[anelphabet]

I'm not scared,

[DK0526]

Cryonics patient will probably be revived because of these molecular nanomachine in the persons body...fixing , repairing, and replacing molecules in the patients....!

[b29349]

Sounds like SC Governor Mark Sanford

[Death2theNWO777]

Shut it Down!!!

[dano555666]

We the people of this planet would never have this technology to help us.

Do you think the governments of the world want us to live forever? They're already thinking of how to reduce our numbers, let alone less living longer. This is technology solely to be used for military and population control purposes.

[Xextreem]

atlast a way to beat cancer and aids and even dead :) thats what i like to see. 

[DK0526]

What does this mean for cryonics?

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!

[yongwiz]

once the military get's their hands on this technology we're all fucked!~

[Buyonicle]

They already did. The future of warfare shall quantumleap into warpspeed soon. Healthcare too, gadgets shall be integrated into our body's.

Our brains shall be connected to the mainframe and the Matrix is just a haertbeat away.

I don't see if this already happened and our waking time is a coming.

Is this all for real or are we living a virtual dream already?

Does this sound outrageous or is there the slightest possibility that I hit the spot.

Don't let me tell you I told you so.....

[azmanabdula]

@yongwiz not if we get it first

[Death2theNWO777]

@azmanabdula

what kinda box you living in?

[azmanabdula]

@Death2theNWO777 sorry?

what circle are you living in?

why is everyone so angry this month on youtube........

ive had more hatemail than in a year.......

thanks for the response : )

[Death2theNWO777]

@azmanabdula

im not angry lol just saying this could lead to some serious shit with all positives there are always negatives...

theres a little good and bad in all this... thats all im saying

Peace...

[azmanabdula]

@Death2theNWO777 positives always outways the negatives.......

as long as we do it correctly.......

thats the hard part........

and for my original comment " not if we get it first:"

i was referring to Australia.........

peace dude

[Death2theNWO777]

@azmanabdula

indeed but these things always fall into the wrong hands, look at history...

Peace...

[azmanabdula]

@Death2theNWO777 some people are scum......

no wonder why most people are cautious

peace

[iching64]

The sleezebags who control the medical-industrial complex only care about "early detection" in so far as it allows to them to start their expensive, ineffectual treatments sooner. Lifestyle, including the daily consumption of corporate garbage-food, is at the root of the big three: heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Kessler's all wet on this one though he is normally a pretty astute guy.

[unseenxxx]

@iching64 yep its clearly a conspiracy we need to nationalize all these companies. then they'll be REALLY productive right? I mean good feelings are a much greater reward then money RIGHT?

[johan404]

If people would eat healthy organic food, drink clean water, exercise and get enough sunlight, they would need much less medical care, perhaps none.

[vycka1234]

Even under such seemingly utopian and ideal conditions, medical care would still be necessary.

[johan404]

Where did I refer to utopian conditions? Is eating organic food a utopian condition? And I clearly said less medical care, not zero. You are either illiterate or twisting my words to appear less retarded than you really are.

[vycka1234]

People eating healthy and exercising seems like an almost utopian condition these days indeed. You said 'perhaps none', so there's room for interpretation. At any rate, virtually everyone needs medical care once in a while, no matter how healthy they are.

No need to call people illiterates and retards to appear less insecure than you really are ;)

[KOPYMEH]

I don't know about that. But I think if you ate healthy food, exercise etc. you would be much healthier and would need 80-90% less medical care.

For example 90 years ago 1/30 people had cancer, today 1/3 will have some form of cancer during their lifetime.

Is that coincidence, or does it have something to do with changes to our lifestyle? Because with those kind of rates, there is no possible way our cavemen ancestors could have survived without medical care.

[vycka1234]

Cancer is an umbrella term for all kinds of tumors, growths, and more. 90 years ago, many people would suffer and die from then-unknown forms of cancer, not even knowing it was cancer in the first place. So the figure 1/30 is likely to be inaccurate. Longer lifespans that we have today also increase the likelihood of getting cancer at some point in one's life.

Our caveman ancestors survived at much, much worse rates.

[KOPYMEH]

Your assumptions are quite inaccurate.

Our caveman ancestors lived almost as long as we do now. The problem back then was mainly the high infant mortality rate aswell as being wounded in battle or by accident, which would have left cavemen bleeding to death of their wounds. Both of those issues have now been fixed.

The common problem was however not disease. There are even aboriginese tribes today, that have not experienced anything resembling any form of cancer.

[KOPYMEH]

Just look at how many nearly fatal accidents people get into. If you factor in a disease rate as high as we have now, we'd be an extinct species.

There are medical records kept of deaths for up to 90 years and more, describing the then unknown causes of death. With what we know now, we can extrapolate what is likely to have caused the deaths. So I would argue that the 1/30 figure is fairly accurate. It could be even lower.

[SuperInverted]

@johan404

The goal is to not need any of the stuff you mentioned.

[johan404]

@SuperInverted Yeah, well you try living without it. See how that works out for you.

[SuperInverted]

@johan404

Well, yeah.. That's what I'm saying. The goal is to get away from it. We're not there yet, that's just the goal...

[johan404]

@SuperInverted A highly unlikely goal.

[SuperInverted]

@johan404

So what, man? The closer you get, the better off you are..

The only real waste of time is trying to write out infinite.

[DracoMalfoy87]

But they would still die. Nanotech could mean immortality

[okroal]

@johan404 U R LIVING IN EL-DORADO .... OUT OF 6 BILLION .... 4 BILLION DO NOT EVEN HAVE BASIC FACILITY FOR SANITATION , HEALTH , EDUCATION ...

[LetItFloat]

The future is brighter than many think. Medicine is heading not the path of nano tech, but the path of embryonic stem cell tech. nano tech represents the same tech we have at the present but drastically reduced in size, and embryonic stem cell represents a medical advancement we never had before. If I have to bet, I would say invest in stem cell technology for the future is heading that direction.

[GELASSENSEIN]

I really hate this talking fly

[GELASSENSEIN]

I don't like how this puppy talks and presents his easy-making-money and superflous book for iliterate spectators.

[robinvkb]

bad

[shayan7710]

this guy is brilliant

[durkma2]

This guy has no idea what he's talking about. 90% of what he says about immune physiology is wrong or irrelevant. He shoulda paid attention in bio

[infokemp]

Tell us more about micro biology - good comment.

[durkma2]

well, there is no microdalton used in science that i'm aware of. a dalton is the unit of atomic mass, so a microdalton would be one millionth of a proton in mass. Actually, an antibodies weigh 90-135 KILOdaltons, meaning there are about 90,000-135,000 protons of mass in an Ab. secondly, a chip with more and more antibodies would just precipitate out of the blood, forming crystals, and therefore would be useless. however, he is right that there will be more preventative medicnine in the future.

[infokemp]

Thanks good comment.

[elcd06]

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[nemsison]

in how many years will the technology be commercially available and and relatively cheap for me to use and extend my life expectancy, since im 20 years of age now.

[Robikus]

In 15 years life extension science will add one year to the human lifetime per year and improve even more in years after that point in time. You could very well live a thousand years.

[nemsison]

holy shit a thousand years!! well that's enough for me coz all I wana see is humanity starting to discover the Andromeda galaxy(the nearest galaxy to ours), I think that is a descent thousand years time line for me, just hope we get over all prejudice, war and disease by then.

[Robikus]

Andromeda? How about Alpha Centauri our second nearest star, want to go? Without wormhole, hyperspace, or inter-dimensional travel(real theories btw) the trip will take over a hundred years. Even if we could approach the speed of light, just over 4 years there and 4 years back, earth will have aged over a hundred years due to relativity. So there's no coming back to the home you knew. We can't even create a viable travel method in theory yet. Will take a big paradigm shift to get to Andromeda.

[nemsison]

well i really think that the whole problem with relativity and space travel can be solved in the next 400-600 years, with how fast our technology has been advancing in the last 50 years, and by the way alpha centauri is a boring place to be with no habitable planet and 3 stars circling each other, I'd rather wait till we find microbial life forms in europa, which is probably in my regular lifetime without any nanobots.

[n1bigdaddy]

dude are you still alive or did you get hit by a truck or something?

[nemsison]

Nah, Im still ticking, although my hopes of living forever dwindeled while thinking about the social implications of imortality or 1,000 year lifes.

- Jobs alredy occupied

- Social Sicurity will be a bitch on the budget.

- Extreem OVER POPULATION !!!!

Its scarry, but I'm still here.

[n1bigdaddy]

i think most people would prefer to live longer lives and when these advances have been made there will probably be a good solution to the things you mentioned

i kinda see this like abortion its someones own choice and nobody can legally stop you

and if it were to become illegal people will still find a way to get whatever makes you thousand years old

religious people already have a second shot at life so they wouldn't want this and if they do they are hypocrites

[CFrostyTheSnowman]

It wouldn't work in our current system of society no. Doesn't mean it wouldn't work in any that humans are capable of.

[shammmuk]

imagine how freakish u would look in a thousand years...

[CFrostyTheSnowman]

Perhaps you would/could look exactly as you do now.

[alanejackson]

Magnetosynthesis Something you didn't know you were doing!

Magnetrition An organelle living inside your body that migrates magnetically

Research indicates magnetic bacteria and the mitochondria have the same properties. The average person dies around age 70 due to insufficient turning during sleep

Astronauts, when they leave the Earth's magnetic field, must take with them a copy of the Earth's magnetic field, and insure their periodic movement within that field to prevent osteoporosis

[ogskeetdizzle]

666

[gd4uwj]

Ha, ha. This guy is a funny IDIOT. Everything he says is basically wrong. Amazing.

[djokerkean]

my name is d and iv seen the future when the sky is silvere in 2012-2013 i will be wating for the resistance down the wooded path

[Zeptumn]

well my name is z and iv seen your youtube page with lot's of dancing marijuana leaves on it. What the hell are you talking about dude.

[njchad]

hhahahahahahahahahahah oh my god classic. 2012 is overrated d

[terrafirmaterrafirma]

Sad that someone as stupid as this fellow is attempting to explain such an important development.

[akaCharlieG]

haha agreed

[morshan]

Andy, as always, is giving us the Wall Street and Engineering view of issues. His insight has been right on for many years and I am sure he is describing the next big thing, bio nano.

[SailorBarsoom]

That's why we need nanomedecine now: to deal with all those goobagoblins.

[SailorBarsoom]

Well, we WILL have nanobots swimming around inside us, but we'll have other stuff first. Just like those brick-sized cell phones, for all their expense, couldn't take a picture (much less a video) or check e-mail. Now they do all that and more.

[1Cheryl]

great comments

[roidroid]

He said he was an engineer?

This guy seems too stupid to be an engineer. Or maybe he's just pretending to be stupid, to endear his audience.

[fekman77]

roidy, i think you are mistaking stupidity for 'enthusiasm'. he is indeed an engineer, business man, author, analyst, and apparent futurist.

ps.. i was saying nanotech was going to be the next revolution about 8 years ago - should have written a book. bum!

[roidroid]

i think it was when he said "Goobergoblins, whatever the heck that stuff that's in your blood", it stuck me as pandering to an anti-intellectual audience. I guess we all have to do it sometimes to hold the audiences' attention *sigh*.

[most3vilone]

yeah he sounded like a f_cking retard when he said that. then he wised it up nearer the end.

[tipsypyro]

would it make you feel better if he used a bunch of 2 dollar words to impress you and then you could'nt understand?

[roidroid]

here's 10 bucks buy me some words

[babylonsfalling]

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