Nanotechnology - The Future Industry. Discuss.

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or....let it hang itself. one or the other..

Nanites, in theory, could manufacture anything out of basic elements+energy. Want a house? BAM! Want a car? BAM! Want a brother? Probabally BAM!

If they have a little mass-mind going between them computing power would be no problem. One nanite could become a billion in a day.

Of course nanites could be just a big a danger as a boon. A single nanite programmed for war could consume the planet, burning biomass for fule. You could deter this my creating "nanocannables" who would eat any mutated or illegally programmed nanites.

Scary but even more tempting.

but if that's true: one dolar could become --> ...(fill in any high number)

No serious: I hope they don't deprive the world of that technological advances, because me too would like to see the space elevator come true and cut costs per pound lifted to space to a few dollars.

I bet it's all getting too cheap then and it won't be develloped.:(

To manufacture at the nanoscale is really nothing new too nature. Biological systems such as yourself have all sorts of nano machinery working around the clock to keep you breathing and thinking about what the future will be like. It is only now that we name this process to our own ends. Manipulation at this scale by human probing and prodding is what our species will call the next industrial revolution. And probably the last...

Will humankind survive the apocalyptic changes about to occur in our everyday lives? I don't know that answer, but I have a pretty good guess if you would like to read on.

As with any other new technology, you can basically follow the money to see where it's going to pop up first and for Nanotechnology it's going to be popping up first I believe in the military. Lets face it folks, Nanotechnology will be first put to use as either a defensive or offensive weapon. IMO the first country with a self replicating nanogadget wins. And when I mean win, I mean total and complete domination. And if we look in the mirror, that's what human kind has really been about, domination over one another.

There is another scenario though. One that will be forged through the minds and hearts of the compassionate among us who believe that even in the face of such awesome power, it can be controlled through a shared learning experience taught to us by something which at this point is still being designed. Some call it the singularity.

Now one thing we as a species have to understand is that all of our technologies come from us. It's not like the computer just happened to fall into place by itself. We designed it, we built it and so far, we control it. This is a very important concept as far as i'm concerned.

To be continued...

industry's making too much money making it the old fashioned way.

the nanobomb: releases hordes of nanites that eat a city alive

My brain is really small. Is that a nanobot?


Ohh, we could have nanodogs! And nanocats! Little tiny pets that you can bring to school, and they would never die (unless you threw them in a big fire or something) because they're so small, you wouldn't be able to step on them if you wanted to.

Of course, nanobots could be dangerous too. Let's say someone wanted just two nanodogs. But one of them happened to be female, and the other male. The manufacturers programmed them to self-replicate using whatever was nearby. If the whole family of dogs could fit on the end of a pin, it wouldn't really take much to make them self replicate. Maybe only a speck of dust, or less! Nobody would miss it. But then, they could replicate too fast. Soon, you'd have a couple million nanodogs to feed and care for. (They would look like a big blob because there are so many of them, and that's called "grey goo", from what I've heard.)

Anyway, the dogs would keep replicating, and eat your sofa and kids to convert to material to replicate with. And then they'd just make more, and more! Soon, there would be so many, they would blot out the sun, or consume the universe!

And this could be accidental, but intentional as well. What if some hacker got angry at Microsoft, and instead of hacking them directly, hacked his dog instead? The the nanodog would keep replicating, and he would mail it to Microsoft, and it would eat their headquarters (with the many nanodog spawn). Or maybe he got angry at the world, and made it eat the world. That wouldn't be good, but what would we do to stop it?

There are some things, such as never building them. Or as some suggest, making a "blue goo" which goes out and attacks the nanodogs. then it would be a war between really tiny robot things!

I'm not sure how nanobots would work, but maybe a really large EMP pulse could knock them all out. Or flash heating the world somehow, which would burn everyone, but also melt all the nanobots too.

Or possibly some kind of poison that kills nanobots, and not living things. Or radiation, or lots of other things. Or maybe we'll just be eaten alive by a swarm of nanodogs. I wonder what that would feel like...

Well, anyway, nanobots are fun, but if you don't care for your nanodog properly, and spay/neuter it early, it'll destroy the world.

A message from your friends at the Nanobot Holocaust Prevention Organization.

How about MEMS - The current industry. What don't people ever talk about that?

Nanotechnology is a hyped up buzz word that signifies nothing except marketing.
There is nano techologies surrounding you. Children are born by a nano sized group of cells. (Nano being a nanometer- one billionth of a meter).
Manufactured nano scaled structures have been going for the past 25-30 years. The various integrated circuits surrounding you (and there are thousands) have all been created using photolithography using nano scaled etchings.

I think that we are more or less discussing about nantes not nano sized objects in general

Would you perfer things in picometers? EEW... reminds me of pokemon. Howabout femptometers?

http://nanotech-now.com/utility-fog.htm

The possibilities are infinite,....


greetz fukushi

Here are a few extra links:

http://www.spaceref.com/directory/future_technology/nanotechnology/

Verry interesting abstracts,...!

no only will be be able to repair cells, we will be able to design from the beginning atomic structure to the visible end product. this will allow for more design control. with this knowledge we will be able to understand the more minute details of the composition of the structures we build.