"an MIT researcher has come up with a new computational model that can analyze any type of complex network -- biological, social or electronic -- and reveal the critical points that can be used to control the entire system.
Potential applications of this work, which appears as the cover story in the May 12 issue of Nature, include reprogramming adult cells and identifying new drug targets, says study author Jean-Jacques Slotine, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and brain and cognitive sciences.
It's not a great leap of the imagination to envisage nanoparticles inserted into the nervous system and linked to a super-computer that can send instructions to trigger the release of neuro-chemicals or accelerate healing and reactions.
Nano particles and nanocomputers with programming informed by neuroscience and genetics are becoming the major shaper of the way we will communicate and interact with computer systems and information networks.
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