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NFT: Another new medical technology: 3D printed nano fishbots.

manh george : 8/27/2015 3:05 pm

Some of the new stuff is wild, and it's coming fast.

Next up: 3D printed fishbots that will swim in your bloodstream, delivering drugs and removing toxins.

"And they swam and they swam right into your hand."
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pretty sweet  
mattlawson : 8/27/2015 3:09 pm : link
my office has a few 3D printers - amazing how far these have developed in a few years.
We are about..  
FatMan in Charlotte : 8/27/2015 3:11 pm : link
to make a push to get 3-D printers into everyone's homes!
Great  
Headhunter : 8/27/2015 3:16 pm : link
people will to 202 years old and for Social Security the requirement age for retirement age will be 111
will live to 202  
Headhunter : 8/27/2015 3:16 pm : link
.
Speaking of which...  
manh george : 8/27/2015 3:27 pm : link
new article on life expectancy in The Lancet.

Of course, the big increase are yet to come, as we attack the primary death diseases of aging: heart, cancer, pulmonary, vascular/stroke, alzheimers and diabetes.
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I always enjoy these threads...  
BurberryManning : 8/27/2015 3:47 pm : link
and they've provoked me into doing a good bit of research myself into some of these secular growth/technology themes. If not even for the purpose of potential investment many of these technologies are awe inspiring and uplifting.
Since you asked, great "implications of accelerating tech" article...  
manh george : 8/27/2015 3:56 pm : link
in the Atlantic Monthly this month. This guy is very smart.

He is talking about a massively different world after tech "eats" a lot of jobs.

He doesn't get into a couple of related concepts, such as collapsing marginal costs and the challenge to keeping demand up as wages come under pressure, but in other ways, really perceptive, I think.
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Burberry  
manh george : 8/27/2015 3:56 pm : link
I would add "scary."
Wait, I'm confused...  
Shepherdsam : 8/27/2015 3:57 pm : link

Are the machines going to kill us or save us?
They are going to allow us to live to be 200 years old  
ron mexico : 8/27/2015 3:58 pm : link
as their slaves.
And...  
manh george : 8/27/2015 3:59 pm : link
the guys my company is working with on threats to jobs, Osborne and Frey.
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Shep  
manh george : 8/27/2015 4:00 pm : link
Save us and then bore us to death.
I doubt the boring would kill us.  
Shepherdsam : 8/27/2015 4:03 pm : link

Probably bleed out after the hole is drilled.
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