I mentioned the Artificial Intelligence version to a computer programmer friend the other day, whose son was at Mr. B’s birthday party, and he smiled and, in effect, said that I shouldn’t hold my breath. That seemed about right to me, as I have always thought AI was mainly hype.
SciFi writer Charles Stross calls this stuff "the Rapture of the Nerds." Nevertheless I tend to think the Nanotechnology one is actually close, and invisible, injectable robots someday will be scouring the plaque out of Mr. B.’s arteries. For starters.
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