From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sat Jul 10 1999 - 19:24:00 MDT
> "Billy Brown" <ewbrownv@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> Hmm. Yes, you should be able to do usefull amounts of computation without
> any problems. Couple that with passive sensors, and you could have a very
> powerful metabolic monitoring system. Add a few digitally-controlled
> ribosomes to the cell and you could do a lot of interesting biological
> manipulations. You could also do a lot of immune system enhancements with
> this technology (based on improved ability to detect invaders and
> co-ordinate immune responses).
>
Much of this is/will be discussed in "Nanomedicine". I'll be discussing
some of it at Extro4. I don't think the immune system enhancements come
up until volume 2 or 3 however.
Robert
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