Medical Nanobots Will Connect Brain to Cloud Computing - Ray KurzweilUpdate on the emergence of DNA nanobots and nanocomputers. The Human Body Version 2.0 project features none other than arch-Transhumanist Ray Kurzweil as its main proponent. The goals have been openly stated for some time: Taking this even one step further, Ray Kurzweil said in a new interview with The Wall Street Journal (see below) that our extension into non-biological realms will include nanobot computers that will enter our brain and connect us to Cloud computing. From science fiction horror, directly to the human body, the nanobots are no longer speculation. Also unlike science fiction, they wont arrive via immediate worldwide takeover they are already here, and will be introduced incrementally, as Kurzweil has previously stated: Naturally, this type of targeted therapeutic approach could prove beneficial, as the researchers highlight especially for cancer treatment which sweeps up healthy cells along with malignant ones, very often doing more harm than good (if one were to choose the establishment medical route). This is always how new technologies are sold to the public, however, and it would be naive not to consider the darker applications as well. Direct brain modification already has been packaged as neuroengineering. AWired articlefrom early 2009 highlighted that direct brain manipulation via fiber optics is a bit messy, but once installed it could make someone happy with the press of a button. Nanobots take the process to an automated level, rewiring the brain molecule by molecule. Worse, these mini droids can autonomously self-replicate, forcing one to wonder how this genie would ever be put back in the bottle once unleashed. Here is one scenario offered by Kurzweil for how these nanobots could enter our bodies: That might seem to offer a level of participatory choice to wear or not to wear the garment but Kurzweil reveals that the nanobots will eventually be everywhere: In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, Kurzweil highlights why Google has taken an interest in nanotechnology and the possibilities he sees for humans as they increasingly become non-biological and form direct connections with computers, augmenting and/or supplanting our natural processes as we head into the era of cyborgs and beyond: And of course once our neocortex is uploaded to the Cloud, it positions Google perfectly for searching our every thought and pre-thought. While this might sound like an impossible amount of information to upload, let alone interconnect and search, it is being announced that researchers have designed the first nanocomputer that can push beyond the concept of Moores Law, which imposes a theoretical limitation on the expansion of computer processing power. It shouldnt be seen as coincidence that these developments are happening simultaneously. What appears on the surface to be discoveries in entirely different fields are coalescing rapidly as we approach the theoretical date of The Singularity the full merger of human and machine estimated to occur between 2029-2045. Despite the benign language of futurists, we know that a concerted effort is already underway to manage and predict human behavior for a whole range of potentially anti-human applications. As our free will is also targeted like the cells of our body for drug therapy or elimination ethical concerns must be voiced loud and clear. Scientists seem content with opening Pandoras Box, then worrying about negative consequences later and that is only if we assume that their intentions are benign from the beginning. One should take time to examine the history of military experimentation on human populations to see all of this through a very different lens. At the very least, instead of the fully realized vision of Human Body 2.0, this might be Big Pharma 2.0 a new phase where conventional drugs are incrementally replaced by nanodrugsand nano-fleet delivery systems. Coupled with applications that directly enter our brain to connect us to the computer matrix, we are rapidly entering an entirely new human paradigm. The funding is already there, and a massive amount of money is waiting to be made by companies like Google. Here again, for those who might only see the bright side to this technology, we ought to question who is really in control of it. Sources: Recently by Nicholas West: Updated: 2/6/2014 