I think more than most that people will be surprisingly accepting of nanotechnology as medicine in the same way they’ve been open, even inviting, of nonstop surveillance. Father-and-son futurists Ray and Ethan Kurzweil don’t necessarily agree with that view in a new Wall Street Journal interview conducted by Amir Efrati. An excerpt:

“WSJ: 

What will happen technologically in the next five years?

Ray Kurzweil: 

My message is the law of accelerating returns and how remarkably predictable the exponential growth of IT is. More and more things become IT, like health and medicine. There will be 3-D printing, augmented reality.

Ethan Kurzweil: 

Every step along the way will freak people out.

Ray Kurzweil:

With nanodevices that will be implanted in our bodies to repair us, putting technology in our bloodstream, lots of people will opt out at first.”