We have experienced two tipping points in the history of technological development: the first occurred when precision became a function of machinery rather than human skill, and the second occurred when the same thing happened with reliability. The next tipping point is yet to come, and it has to do with complexity. When machines can create machines more complex than themselves, well, lets just say things start to get interesting.

Full Story at the Responsible Nanotechnology blog.

More about the Singularity can be found at KurzweilAI.net.

Way out in the future I’m sure, but some interesting research.

Ray Kurzweil has proposed a nanobiotechnology research program to replace the cell nucleus and ribosome machinery with a nanocomputer and nanobot to prevent diseases and aging and another program to create defensive technologies against rogue designer viruses.

Kurzweil presented the ideas in a keynote at the recent “Breakthrough Technologies for the World’s Biggest Problems” conference on April 28, sponsored by the Arlington Institute.

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