“The concentrations we saw in the brain tissue of normal individuals, who had an average age of around 45 or 50 years old, were 4,800 micrograms per gram, or 0.48% by weight,” Campen said.
That’s the equivalent of an entire standard plastic spoon, Campen said.
“Compared to autopsy brain samples from 2016, that’s about 50% higher”
An entire spoon’s worth of plastic in ol’ wrinkly. That doesn’t seem good.
Future generations will have their brains filled with perhaps spent nanobots or microscale 3D printer feedstock, just as our ancestors filled theirs with asbestos, lead, and mercury
like in the neo-victorian times in Neil Diamond’s book The Stephenson Age where poor people cough up soot made from trillions of dead nanobots
You mean Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age
Stephen Nielsen’s The Age Diamond
Maybe I’m too optimistic but I hope we’ll have nanobots to clean up all that crap before we stop functioning.
Personally, I’m hyped for the new and exotic antibiotic-resistance super-bugs and parasites colonizing their bodies.