Futurological forecast. post —industrial civilization – nanotechnologies – nanomedicine – immortality. Victor Gryaznov

      The latest technologies will allow to tear electronic communication of atoms, transplant the electrons from one orbit to another, or add them or subtract them. Then we can make a chemical element from the other one, without resorting to any chemical reactions. We can get gold or any other element from plumbum. So, nanotechnologies are miraculous philosopher’s stone (the elixir) which was the greatest alchemists’ dream ever. We can get iron, steel from the air. And if we input programs for producing iron and concrete in the computer we will receive reinforced concrete. You can build without a stop but why? We can input a program for apartment building’s schemes. Just press one button and you will get a brick. Press another one – and you will get a house. The same is with food. Just input the program and collect the molecule of wheat from the electrons – that is the program of producing the flour. You can bake bread, but why do you need an oven? You can create a program for molding, a program for baking. Just press a button and you will get a loaf of bread, press another one – and you will get two loaves etc.

      Fantastic! But think over how humanity develops, what was invented and adopted over the last one hundred and fifty years. In a word – industrialization. We tried to explain you the meaning of the post industrialization from the nano technological point of view. As a concrete example, it is possible to tell about the successes in the field of producing of stainless steel, where the carbon atom is substituted by nitrogen atom. The propellers of marine vessels are already produced from this steel.

      Here we must also remember the genius of humanity – the academist Vernadsky, famous for the term “noosphere of humanity”. In his writings we can also find such terms as heter trophicity and auto trophicity. In brief – the first is the consumption of solar energy through the plant as an intermediary where this energy is accumulated, whereas a man receives it indirectly with food. As for auto trophicity (“auto” means “self”), it shows that the person will begin to obtain this energy directly from the Sun in the process of evolution. Then, according to his hypothesis, our digestive system will die off, this should happen after sixty thousand years – he is such a seer. It is logical to conclude that then we won’t need any nanotechnology in the nutrition field.