What is a nanomachine anyway?

they are tiny robots, smaller then most of our cells. They can be built to travel through our bloodt stream, and kill any virus/bacteria in seconds. We'd never get sick if we had them.

They have began construction of small prototypes. The prototypes don't have much of a purpose, I saw a picture of one on the internet somewhere, they are just a nano-chip with a small arm attached built for testing and testing only.

just think though, in 20-30 years there will be no such thing as disease!

I wouldn't count on it. On a negative note we will probly have obliterated most of the known world with nuclear warfar, and remember, it's not that hard to blow up one scientists nano-research and then we'd have to wait atleast ten years to rebuild anything capable of constructing a nano-bot.

Just jumping into this coversation...:D

I actually think that disease and sickness will get worse over the years.

Think of this:

Back in the day before doctors actually knew what they were doing and there was no real medicine, people didn't have nearly as many problems as we have today. Yes, there were problems, that's what the doctors were for, but what I'm saying is this...
If we ourselves now were living back then, we would'nt survive. No vaccines, medicine, we'd surely die.
It seems that over the years humans have gotten weaker and now are so dependent on medical science. If that's the way we are now, I imagine 20-30 years down the road it'll get much worse.

-oddguy

Of course there'd be disease. Having the technology to provide the masses with nanomachines and operators/training to set what to get rid of would be near impossible. There are still genetic illnesses, mutating diseases, or viruses that go undetected through the lysogenic cycle. Disease will never be erradicated, at least for the majority, for a long time. If ever.