Nano-IT in medicine & its consequences Transforming Life from the inside

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1 Nano-IT in medicine & its consequences Transforming Life from the inside Dr. M. Naci Akkøk Chief Architect, Oracle Nordic April Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Copyright 2015 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 1

2 Safe Harbor Statement The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle. Presentation Flow Nanorobotics What is it? Where are we today in Nanorobotics? Nanorobots in medicine The potential (application areas) The reality (how far have we come?) The implications? More things of the type Internet of Things MANY more! If so, what about the security implications? If so, does it maybe mean bigger Big Data? 2

3 Richard Feynman, December 1959 American Physical Society talk at Pasadena: There is Plenty of Room at the Bottom. Transcript: The tiny machines talk, 25. Oct. 1984: There is a tiny machine in there somewhere What is a Nanorobot or Nanobot? A tiny robot. Like what Feynman was referring to in his tiny machines talk. Designed & programmed to perform a specific task with precision at Nano-scales NOTE: 1 Nanometer = 10-9 meter. Largest human cells are approximately 120 μm in diameter or length. Smallest cells (f. ex. blood cells) are approximately 7-8 μm in diameter. A Nanobot can be 100 to 1000 times smaller than the smallest human cells (like blood cells). 3

4 What can the Nanobots be used for in medicine? Sentinels: Injected into the blood stream (approximately 10 6 or one million in 1 cm 3 ), or taken as a pill, the sentinels patrol the body looking for??? For example cholesterol (blockages), fatty deposits (atherosclerosis), cancer, aneurisms, etc. Sentinels are the early-warners and map-makers. They monitor health and map the problem areas. They are the basic Nanobots that the others build upon. What can the Nanobots be used for in medicine? Surgeons: Sentinels that, in addition to identifying the problem, do something about it (cut out or destroys cancerous cells, for example, or deplete fat/cholesterol etc.) Warriors: Sentinels that identify and then contain toxins, viruses, microbes (help the immune system) Regenerators: Guide stem-cells, provide the right medium for the stem-cells to start specializing/repairing, and help the reparation process using nanotechnology (molecular level building, building new nerve cells, eye cells, DNA corrections etc.) Builders: Build or help build other Nanobots 4

5 Where are we today in Medical Nanobots Technology? The bio-chip: Technology: Nanoelectronics + photo-lithography + biomaterials. Usage: Surgical instrumentation, diagnosis, drug delivery. Manufacturing method is in use in the electronics industry. Nubots (Nucleic Acid Robots): Technology: DNA structure used for assembling 2D and 3D nanomechanical devices. Usage: Mostly drug delivery or on-site intelligent operations. Highly programmable complex structures & combinations! From Wikipedia: Where are we today in Medical Nanobots Technology? Bacteria based: Disciplines: Bio-medical. Uses microorganisms like E. Coli. Drawing-board stage (but used experimentally in conjunction with a silicon chip for humidity gauging. Virus based: Similar (uses retro-viruses). For gene therapy. Wow! Surface bound systems, Positional nano-assembly, From Wikipedia: 5

6 Where are we today in Medical Nanobots Technology? There are challenges, of course, but it is no longer pure science fiction. The Nanobot-race is looking more and more like any other technology race (like space race). The promise is not negligible. There is already talk of open technology and open standards to facilitate the speed of development, especially in micro-botics, already a reality. Microbots example: SWARM Small-World Autonomous Robots for Micro-manipulation (SWARM) or the Intelligent version (I-SWARM) 1 Solar panel 2 IR communications module 3 ASIC 4 Capacitors 5 Piezoelectric module 4 6

7 Internet of Things Changes Everything FDA (USA) and EU CE approved ingestible and wearable sensors. Delivers precise information about medication ingestion, dose timing and associated physiologic response of patients, including heart rate, activity, rest, and skin temperature. Can the Nanobots be misused? Yes, of course! Like any other technology. What did you think of first when Tesla was constructed as a break-through in electric car technology and with so much digital technology? Was that fact that someone could hack into your Tesla your first thought? Telepaths: What if Nanobots could tag onto a nerve end or a brain area, and could transmit the signals to a receiving Nanobot in another human being? Ray Kurzweil said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that our extension into non-biological realms will include nanocomputers (nanobots) that will enter our brain and connect us to cloud computing. See: See also: Ninja-bots and Samurai-bots: What if Nanobots could be used to attack from within? That would definitely create the protecting Samurai-bot industry. But it would make life very unpleasant and insecure. 7

8 The implications upon IT & Computer Science Three major areas: And then some other areas: Internet of Things (IoTs), sensor technology, Internet of Nano-things (IoNs) Big Data, Analytics Cloud computing, (tele)communications, The ultimate distributed computing The Iternet of Nano-things or Nanobots (IoNs) 8

9 Value 5/6/2015 The New Frontier... The Nano- Connected World Enterprise Consumer HUMAN! Unlocking the Value of IoTs/IoNs Data Volume, Velocity and Variety HOT ALARM - Heart attack (or respirator stop) WARM WARNING maintenance required COLD EVENT-END: Learn! Time 9

10 The Building Blocks for et IoT/IoN Eco-System Devices, Sensors (the Device Cloud) IoT/IoN Cloud Service Institutional (Enterprise) & Individual Orchestration The Device Challenge Security and identity Always available, but not always on Scale (connection and data) Different formats, architectures, languages Life-cycle management IoT/IoN Device Management 10

11 Internet of (Nano)Things Acquire and Manage Integrate and Secure Analyze and Act Current users of IoT (and micro-bot) technologies Automated parking Life sciences & equipment Sports (fuel band, Sensor monitoring) In-vehicle safety & communications Microbot pills Security, safety Smart grid technologies, Advanced Metering 11

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