This is probably the first really tangible benefit of any form of nanotechnology. It won’t be the last. I expect that replacements for most body parts will be able to be fashioned and seeded this way within a decade, and that it will become common practice within twenty years.
So much for the SF/horror scenario of growing clones for spare body parts. 😉
To the tune of “home on the range”.
“Oh give me a clone / A clone of my own! With the Y, changed to an X! / And with that clone / That Clone of my own! / We will think of nothing but sex.” – Isaac Asimov (or was it Heinlein? One of the two.)
According to this page (which has a much expanded version), some of the verses are from Asimov. I wouldn’t have guessed it though.
Yeah, for some reason I thought my memory was faulty and it was Heinlein, certainly it’s more of his type of thing. 😉
When I read it, I wondered if it was him too.
Yeah, reading it from Asimov is sort of like finding out Dr. Seuss did “adult” comics. You do a double-take. 😉
I don’t know about Dr. Seuss, but according to GoddessJ, Judy Bloom (author of several kids books like “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing”) also did some racy adult novels, which gave me pause when I heard it.