Quote Originally Posted by Ryan
Quote Originally Posted by Gallo
Last time nanotech came up in these forums, I mentioned Ray Kurzweil's book: The Singularity. He spells out a lot of the potential benefits of nanotechnology including the theoretical "replacement body" that Xzin talked about. Some of the possibilities are beyond the word "cool".
Is it just me, or is the first possibility thought of with "replacement body" is a quick and easy gender change. Which I find terribly exciting.
Not the only one.

I read a while back a theory that went something like this:

Life in the universe is easy to achieve.

The fatc none of it has contacted us is a sure sign they discovered self replicating machines...

I'm unsure who came up with the theory or why. Also bear in mind the Von Neumann machines aren't certainly microscopic and could as easily be massive (or any size in between).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_machine