Lung cancer cell during cell division. Nanobots are still missing from the picture.
Technical nanobots reduce away the lack of physical wellbeing. They downvote, flag and unfollow viruses and other maggots that feast on your body. With ideal decisions and ideal movements always, the nanobots destroy what you cannot see and what you cannot feel, the mysterious infinitesimal units behind the label "disease". Reliability is their nickname. With a stored set of pre-programmed intentions, they live out a technical life of precision and no emotion.
But hey, your body is a technical event, too. Behind labels such as "pain" are definite signals from skin neurons to brain. The more signals, the more intensive the body sensation. So we invented a word, "pain", that is supposed to capture the whole process. Every single thing that happens with you can be broken down to a chain of smaller events, in themselves broken-down-able to yet smaller ones. Hormones flowing through the blood, neurons firing, atoms pushing each other. Get the remote and set the air-conditioner to absolute zero - suddenly no movement can happen and the essence of your life, your highest moral and spiritual aspirations, your deepest love and affection... are all gone, perfectly gone. The units behind the labels have stopped moving.
Where are the nanobots and what is taking them so long? Don't they see the tremendous suffering that they will be engineered to end? Don't they see that Hollywood and poets have made us worry about the wrong things? And that only when they, the nanobots, come about, only then will we be able to see their consequences and direct our concerns in a useful direction? Robots are cold, precise, unhuman, error-free machines, Hollywood and poets say. How scary! But my fridge and computer are also like that, and they serve me so well...
If everything can be broken down to smaller events, and then further down as much as we want, then what do we do with the label "technical"? Take people. Would anyone consider people to be a technical thing, just as much technical as the nanobots or cars or snowboards or a pen? Let's try it. As soon as I start breaking the label "human being" down, seeking the units behind it - all the neural connections and cells of every system, the input and output of energy, the functions of emotions for survival and the loss of mental faculties due to brain damage - we would call that a technical account of the concept of a human being. Well, then, does "technical" refer to the thing itself, or to which way I think about it?
If we are made up of tiny biological machines - enzymes, proteins, DNA machinery - does that make us some sort of gigabots? Some gigantic collection of kjghpillions of those little machines. "How are you, Mr. Jones? And how are your biological machines?" "Some of them must be struggling with a virus invader because I have AIDS." "So sorry to hear that!" "No need to be! I'm on my way to the nanomedicine clinic for a quick match of nanobots vs AIDS."
In the past, only heaven was supposed to be the place without diseases. Dare we think of turning Earth into heaven?
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The current Steemit setup seems to incentivize speed, especially people quickly scrolling through articles and voting. It also incentivizes writing, and I don't think everyone wants to be a blogger (all the time or at all). Many people might be perfectly happy just reading and voting. But they don't make money that way so they have to write, write, write, and the space gets totally flooded with poor-quality content, while the high-quality content either gets lost, or it gets voted but not very much read (people just scrolling through it and moving to the next).
That's my impression, anyways. So I'm thinking of solutions for this situation.
Yes, you are very right about it. I wrote about it in the past and many other did.
Steemit is just a projection of greedy capitalism. It is owned by greedy cryptocapitalists and investors. It has nepotisim, sycophancy and social stratification just like current social system.
That's one of the reasons I got upset 6 months ago and left for half a year. I've come back now due to monetary reasons.
I like the way you presented this issue! Nanobots in themselves aren't an original idea, but your post is!
I think there's pictures missing from the post! Nothing can be done about that now I guess.
Thanks, I am glad to hear you liked it.
There aren't pictures missing, it's just that I decided to style the post more interestingly (whimsically?) with aligning some of the text. :P