title: Welcome to the future of medicine.
abstract: This chapter describes the negative consequences of medical technology development and commercialization that is too slow, and makes the case for an immediate large scale investment in medical nanorobots to save 52 million lives a year. It also explains the essence of nanotechnology, its life-saving applications, the engineering challenges, and the possibility of 1000-fold improvement over our current human biological abilities. Every decade that we delay development and commercialization of medical nanorobotics, half a billion people perish who could have been saved.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, Palo Alto, California, USA.
authors.forename: Robert A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Freitas
mesh_terms: D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006801:Humans; D050997:Nanomedicine; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000639:trends*