At the recent Low-Volume Manufacturers Association
conference, Boris Fritz, a senior engineer technical specialist at
Northrop
Grumman, said he expects nanotechnology in our lifetime to
enable small devices called respirocytes
that permit us to hold our breath for up to 4 hours.
“What you do is replace about 10% of your blood with these
respirocytes and then you would have literally 4 hours where you
can hold your breath,” lays out Fritz, “So if you had a problem
with your heart stopping you could just leisurely call the hospital
and tell them ‘Well, i’ve had a heart attack, my heart is
stopped’.”
Or another option, as Fritz points out, is that “you could go
scuba diving without any gear.”
Check out the full Fritz interview by Dean Rotbart, Director of
the Low-Volume Manufacturers Association, here. (Would have
embedded the vid, but the youtube code is buggy.) (cont.)
Fritz also does a good job explaining the concept of nano
Utility Fog, which Future Blogger fave Dick Pelletier has
written about extensively, describing it as “programmable
material” that can change the shape an feel of the environment
around you in a manner similar to how TV pixels are arranged into
an image. He envisions that, “In the far future, you could think
that you go on vacation and you dissolve your house and make it
look like a park. Then you come back and you figure what kind of
house you want and the foglets reform.”
“Now this isn’t virtual reality, it’s more like real reality
because it’s made from foglets,” he asserts.
At that point, doesn’t it become clear that everything is
virtual, rendering “physical” travel moot?
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