The first time that I ever heard about nanobots was when I was in the 7th grade an reading a teen vampire book. In this alternate world, where vampires lived amongst humans, it was explained that the introduction of nanobots in common society lead to the creation of what we know as common day vampires. At the time, having no idea what the hell nanobots were, I quickly looked it up on Wikipedia in order to find an explanation of what vampires were. After reading about nanobots, the idea of having little robots, as big as a red blood cell, active in my veins was intriguing. I remember thinking about how great it would be to not have to worry about getting sick, knowing that if (and mostly when) I got cancer, or HIV, or even a common cold, the nanobots in my body would take immediately kill the virus or mutating cells. When looking up the keywords on Google, nanobots + vampirism, the following statement occurred:

"Nanobots, created either by renegade scientists or a race of reptilians, were introduced into a handful of human bodies in order to repair damaged cells. These nanobots performed so well that they rendered their hosts immortal. However, the Nanobots themselves are not immortal and must self-replicate by utilizing the iron atoms from the hemoglobin in the host's red blood cells. The result of this nanoreplication process is the constant need for sufficient supplies of blood. Unable to keep up with the demand, the host has no choice but to seek out blood from others. If the colony of Nanobots exceeds the host's ability to supply sufficient RBCs, some nanobots may migrate into another host, usually the next victim of the primary host's bite." (Vampire theories)

Now six years later, after watched Part 1 of Technocolaspe and discussed it in class, I began thinking about the idea of nanobots again. Despite my fascination with the idea of nanobots, the idea of being transhuman, I can’t help but start considering the negative outcomes of what would happen in our society. I think that if it does in fact get to the point where we reach a level that being transhuman means being part of a superior race, there will be too many people, especially low class people that will be completely left behind. I think that the human race would eventually split into two species, the transhumans (who will be the upper and middle class) and then the simple humans, which would include everyone else. Now intriguing as that idea is to me, to create an entire different race of people that are more robot than human, it is also quite terrifying. And more importantly (at least to me) which species would I end up in? (If indeed I was still alive when technology gets this advanced.)