From: Bobby Martin (bobbymartin@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 27 1998 - 23:01:35 MST
Wei Dai said:
>I can imagine some nanodefenses that would be effective against
>macroweapons. How about an exoskeleton made of cooperating
nanomachines?
>It would block attacks when possible and move you out of harm's way
when
>not. Such armor can reduce the kill radius of a nuclear bomb by
protecting
>the occupant against thermal radiation and blast effects, and repairing
>damages from ionizing radiation.
>
Another way nanotech could help "protect" against these and other
macroweapons is by keeping a running tally of the state of your brain in
multiple hard-to-destroy nodes in your body, possibly uploading deltas
to a central site. It would protect by providing all the necessary
information to reconstitute you in the event of major trauma.
Of course, by the time we have nanotech this mature we'll probably all
be multiply redundant uploaded entities, anyway.
Regards,
Bobby
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