My concern is that the military will go crazy on this stuff. They'll have armor that is almost weightless and completely bulletproofed. This will only lead to a totalitarian government. In America, we seek to place limits on power. If the government has an army of thousands of soldiers that can't be killed, self-building tanks, regenerating ammo, etc.
The military is a largely conservative group, they tend to like small government, but there will be generals, in time of revolt, who would side with big government and could kill millions effortlessly.
I support improving people through it, making better computers, killing cancer with tiny little orbs that heat up and kill it, etc. But I don't like the idea of an army of unstoppable killing machines, no matter who it belongs to.
I'm thinking more of a non-apocalyptic Deus Ex, where a few people have it, but they're mostly like cops and stuff, good guys, with a few bad guys mixed in.
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