Nanotechnology Terrifies Me And It Should Terrify You Too

• Nanotechnology Terrifies Me And It Should Terrify You Too
  by Vernon Coleman, https://drvernoncoleman.substack.com/
  The following essay is taken from my new book `The End of Medicine’.
  There is one area of medicine which terrifies me more than anything else: nanotechnology. And nanotechnology, one of the keystones of technocracy, should appal any thinking person. The world would be a safer, healthier place if everyone involved in promoting nanotechnology were employed in sweeping the streets.
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  You will, of course, have heard of the ‘internet of things’ – the way that untrustworthy computer maniacs can connect your doorbell, your central heating system, your car, your fridge and everything else you own with your smart phone. (I hope you don’t have one.)
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  ‘All that is bad enough but I have on my desk a mass of papers about the way nanotechnology can be used to control and tamper with the human body – including the use of nanotechnology to interfere with neural circuits in the brain. Reading these papers made me physically ill. I dislike rats and snakes but I’d rather be staring at a scurrying, slithering mass of rats and snakes than reading about this stuff.
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  Here is an advertisement I found which promotes a podcast.
  ‘Can you imagine your body’s cells connected to the internet? What about not only measuring your health but literally taking control of it? In this episode of Tech 2030, a 6G world podcast, the host Renuka Racha and Professor Josep Jornet from the Northeaster University talk about the Internet of Nano-Things, sensing, and how connectivity will enhance our lives at the cellular level.’
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  The bit that made go cold was this: ‘How connectivity will enhance our lives at the cellular level.’
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  Note, the advert doesn’t say ‘How connectivity may enhance our lives at the cellular level’ or ‘How connectivity could enhance our lives at the cellular level’ or ‘How connectivity might damage our lives at the cellular level’.
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  It is the word ‘will’ which terrifies me. It’s the bloodless assumption that this crap is going to make my life better which makes my blood go cold.
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  Another paper, in the journal ‘Sensors’, contains this: ‘All components in the smart home environment have a nano-transceiver that allows them to be permanently linked to the internet. A tenant can easily keep track of the status of components in the home through this continuous Internet connectivity. On the other hand, in the context of an intra-body network, nano-machines are deployed inside the human body and remotely controlled at the macro-scale over the Internet by relevant experts such as medical staff or healthcare service providers.’
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