It's fine to point out all the sience fiction things that have become fact, but even if they did, that still doesn't account for all the stuff that still remains science fiction. I'm not saying that this will never happen, (in fact, this seems like a pretty probable thing to happen) but pointing out that other science fiction inventions have become common doesn't mean that this one will.
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While it's extremely possible for this stuff to become reality, don't expect to live forever thanks to nanotechnology, VGX.
Besides, what if the microscopic robot they insert into your body goes haywire and instead of attacking any foreign anomalies, it instead starts to attack your heart/brain/stomach/any other vital organ? You're pretty screwed now, aren't you? *Is reminded of the episode of The Simpsons which features Scratchtasia*
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Quote:If you've got a chunk of cash lying around collecting virtually no interest, I would strongly advise finding out what company is set to debut the most revolutionary or "gotta have it" item based on nanotechnology and invest in that company.
Fine then. Do your research, figure out where the revolution is going to happen and become a rich motherfucker. But please stop giving investment advice to teenagers.
Here's the killer app you're looking for. How about a nano-robot to reattach that #2 synapse that seems to be disconnected in your brain. The 50% loss is noticable.
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I've had some decent fun with some of the better advances in technology, and am glad that I least I got some of the stuff I saw in those Star Trek Movies when I was a kid.
I designed a "holodeck" once myself, essentially like a video game world that you enter at a theme park or something similar. Basically the ground is a giant sphere, so that it rotates freely as you walk so that you dont walk into the walls, and multicolored RGB lasers project holographic enemies etc that you could swing some kind of mock up sword at or fire a light gun, etc. I can't imagine why someone hasn't tried this yet, it's actually incredibly simple.
We don't even have standards and methods for electrical measurement of CN's. Carbon and silicon are both semiconductors in the same elemental group so are materially incompatible. It will require a whole new set of processes and chemistries to make fullerene based electronics. Decades, dude. Silicon has to run out of legs first which it may just now be starting to do.
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