Genetics, Nanotechnology and Robots

Persuasive Essay # 101039

Computer and Technology

A look at the rapid advancement of technology and how what was once fiction is now becoming reality.

1,179 words () | 2 sources | MLA | 2008 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper examines how within the next three decades, according to the implementation of Moore's Law, technology may have advanced to the point that intelligent, self-replicating robots are as ubiquitous as cell phones today. It looks at how although this great advancement in technology offers many possible benefits to humanity it also poses a great risk such as self-replicating robots desiring to exterminate the human species, which is common fodder for the science fiction genre. The paper also discusses how this fiction is quickly evolving into fact, thanks to technological development, in the areas of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics, and their unrestricted advancement.

From the Paper:

"As noted by advocates, the advancements of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics, offer innovative and unique benefits to humanity. The progression of genetic engineering technologies has already seen the development of crops that are disease-resistant, grow in greater abundance, and have nutritional components that are not native to the plant, such as the Vitamin A enriched rice (Joy 224), that is a life-saving development for those starving in Third World countries. Nanotechnology as well could be a boon to mankind, with its potential to not only be the tools needed to develop cures for every imaginable disease and ailment, but also create everything easily and inexpensively (224). "

Sample of Sources Used:

Joy, Bill. (Year). Why the future doesn't need us. In Editor(s) (Eds.), Title (pp. 216-232). Location: Publisher.
Moore, Gordon. "Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits.'Electronics 28(8). 19 April 2006. Intel. 3 December 2006 <ftp://download.intel.com/museum/Moores_Law/Articles-Press_Releases/Gordon_Moore_1965_Article.pdf>.

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Genetics, Nanotechnology and Robots (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 14, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Persuasive-Essay-Genetics-Nanotechnology-and-Robots/101039

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