Nanotechnology: I told you so...
Damn, it was back in 1998 and 99 that I first started mentioning how Nanotech was going to be the BIG thing to start this century but many of those posts got ignored with little fanfare, well as it were, I've been keeping my eye on this because it always knew it was the "next thing they could do" as far coming on the heels of the plateau of the personal computer and internet revolution. My friends, now is the time when it begins, all the cool $hit we saw in Sci-Fi during the 80's and 90's, their making it happen one atom at a time. I suggest you read this article to that further blosters other articles I've been reading online since about 2001.
This is really a big deal and it's happening faster than you can imagine, in fact faster than I thought it would happen. I saw an Ad on TV about Nanotechnology and HP and sure enough it's now gone main stream, when it goes main steam that means we'll start seeing the products and cool stuff from nanotech in the near future.
What exactly could you do with nanotech?
In my article on the Millennium Crossroads about Nanotechnology, AI, and Cybernetics, I mentioned the potential uses of it, and apparently they've got the same ideas I was thinking.
Essentially with nanotech you could build a robot smaller than a cell to enter your bloodstream and repair your cells, or kill foriegn virues, essentially THE CURE for cancer and Aids, and probably heart disease. Also cosmetic surgery will be performed by millions of robots that reform the tissues in your body based upon a set program.
Clothing will now have video screens and wireless internet access built into it, so those designer logos will actually move around or change colors. The cereal box will now make noises and have cartoons that really move on it (See "Minority Report).
Everywhere you walk the walls will contain photoreactive nano cells that will display ads or video.
Nanotechnology may allow for mental telepathy by augmenting neurokinetics and converting biological brainwaves to digital 0's and 1's to transmit to a receiver.
Nanomachines would be able to rebuild cellular DNA (A loss of telemeres that occurs every time a cell duplicates) that begins to break down with aging thus allowing for infinite life.
Nanomachines will be able to assemble any form of matter from the molecule up, essentially any thing you can see around you could be made by trillions and trillions of nanomachines just taking raw materials and combining them into compounds and into objects. From wood, to food, to microchips, and even organs. Nanomachines could in fact feed the world's hungry with nothing but air and dirt.
Carbon Nanotubes are 200 times stronger than the hardest steel and can be drawn out into an almost infinitely long wire, this will allow for the construction of sky hooks and space elevators, that extend from Earth's equator into space, and chemical propellant rockets will be obsolete for moving things from the earth into space, rather the Space Elevator will simply lift it into the sky and deploy it in space. By the time we are 50 taking a trip to a resort hotel in space would be affordable for common people.
With the introduction of processors that are made at the atomic level employing a new discovery called "quantum entanglement" quantum CPU's will be so powerful they will exceed the capacity of 1000 human brains, and more than likely be the brains for AI Robots and companions.
This is really some kick ass stuff.
By the way, those Go Khaki Dockers pants that don't stain at all are a result of Nanotechnogy, so the products are starting to appear already.
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. Investing in Nanotech right now is like investing in Microsoft in 1987 when they went public. I'm doing some more research into which company is going to release the killer app with nanotech and invest in it.
Re: Nanotechnology: I told you so...
Here's kind of how Technology Ages are moving along to give you an idea of what to expect:
The Personal Computer Revolution
The First Personal Wireless Communication Revolution
The Internet Revolution
The Second Personal Wireless Data and Communcation Revolution
The Nanotechnology Revolution
The Artifiical Intelligence Revolution
The Space Exploration Revolution
The Human Immortality Revolution Edited by: VIDEO GAMER X 1 at: 8/29/03 3:22 am
NANOTECH/FULLERENES
Most of the @#%$ you just spouted is sci fi media bullshit.
I read a journal every month (Electrochemical Society, I'm a member, big deal) and there's been a whole division of our organisation devoted to the study of "fullerenes" named after Buckminster Fuller who first theorized "Bucky Balls" which was a high strength structure carbon. Carbon nanotubes are "bucky tubes" and we are quite a ways from building little cell repair robots with them.
I suspect one of the first uses for cnt's will be as microchip interconnects for the >10gigabit range. Find the memory chip company that is working on that and have fun speculating with your money. Here's a short list of mem chip players with the resources to pull it off in the next 8 years.
Re: NANOTECH/FULLERENES
Dude, I'm not talking just about Carbon Nanotubes made from fullerines for microcircuitry, rather actual things like mechanisms. I've read a lot of technical information on this, and various groups are making things like gears, small self propelled motors, (I even saw a tiny guitar, for what I don't know) nano/microscale laboritories for testing chemical reactions, embedding wiring into clothing. There are several articles I was able to read online about using carbon nanotubes to construct a space elevator because of their inherant strength, previously it wasn't possible to do this because no substance known to man could withstand that kind of weight strain, however now with nanotechnology it would be for several billion dollars. As far as the things I was talking about related to matter replication, essentially a nanomachine will replicate itself and likewise those replicators will build more replicators until exponentially they have a factory of trillions of replicators, using raw materials these replicators would follow a program of converting and arranging individual atoms like LEGO blocks into the right positions.
Re: NANOTECH/FULLERENES
I'm wondering if you even read the news site article I posted, they list several various applications for nanotechnology, but the article mostly talks about tiny batteries to power nanomachines inside the bloodstream or for cellular technology.
This article is about the easiest to understand on building a Space Elevator online. The one on Scientific American was a little bit too technical too keep anyone here's attention.
Re: NANOTECH/FULLERENES
Um if Nanotechnology is such a Sci-Fi fantasy then ah why is this true then?
"According to the National Science Foundation, 17 federal agencies are into nanotechnology in a big way, supporting its development to the tune of $1 billion a year. They're into it because tiny devices so small that they can only be seen with powerful microscopes could someday carry drugs through your veins to exactly the spot where you need them, or detect hazardous materials that are invisible to the unaided eye, or power a cell phone for months. "
Taylor The tagless wonder
(8/29/03 10:20 pm) Reply
Re: NANOTECH/FULLERENES
No chance in hell I'm reading all of that
Veeg, I've been providing equipment and process support to the MEMS sector of the microelectronics industry for 10 years now. It's just simply not news.
We've been etching pretty pictures into the scribe lines of silicon wafers for over 40 years. That they decided to underetch the substrate under a little miniature guitar is silly and not even news. If anyone in industry wasted resources and time like that, they'd get fired. That @#%$ is the work of college kids who are wasting good grant money.
You want something new and cool, watch who makes a MEMS recirculating pump with enough corrosion resistance and flowrate to move heat in CPU's. My friends have been working on that for a long time but it eludes them because of the loss of classical "rules" at the small scale we are able to operate under.
Spend a little time in a semiconductor plant before your eyes get all starry about nanotechnology. You continue to prove how removed you are from reality with this kind of dreamy drivel.
Re: sigh
Well, that information is interesting but I'm still going to maintain firm that nanotechnology applications go beyond simply semiconductors and that numerious efforts in varying fields of science are using it in some form.
Wouldnt you agree that publications like the Journal Nature and Scientific American are both reliable and accurate sources of information regarding the prevailing trends and developments in modern science and technology. I'm not going to handhold everyone else here and explain all the technology when numerous websites are available online about it to learn for yourself. If you are too lazy to learn than only you can blame yourself for being clueless.
This debate has pretty much been limited to myself and this "old Toby" guy, its apparent that most individuals here have little background and insight to discuss this accurately.
I submit that you read the following information related to nanotechnology at this URL:
Now if after reading the related articles there, if you still think that everything I said is as my father would say is simply "California Dreaming" then perhaps you are as shortsighted as the 19th Century Astronomer, Simon Newcomb, who concluded:
"The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which a men shall fly long distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be. "
For those who can't wade through that he basically said that he agrees that it is impossible for men to build heavier than air machines that allow him to fly. Here's another shortsighted fool of yesteryear.
Some Professor named A. W. Bickerton in 1926 wrote "This foolish idea of shooting at the moon is an example of the absurd length to which vicious specialization will carry scientists working in thought-tight compartments." He goes on to mention how it is impossible to produce an explosive force strong enough to propel an object out of Earth's atmosphere and acheive escape velocity.
Funny how in when people Like Alan Sheppard and Yuri Grugarin became the first humans to experience what Bickerton said was impossible no one stepped up to the plate and called the guy for what he was, entirely blind toward logical progression of scientific knowledge. In 1969 "One Small Step for Man" was made upon the Moon thus entirely showing how stupid some people were who said it could never be done.
Right now, I hear some people say, People will never be able to travel to other star systems, and Artificial Intelligence will never get off the ground, and Nanotechnology won't be able do the things scientists would like it to do. I know it's a cliche but it's been said, "When there's a will, there's a way" and motivation for revolution stems from money. Right now as a typical consumer, there's nothing on the market that makes me go "wow, I got to have one of those," and some of the alternatives of nanotechnology according to the research I've done indicate that numerious corporations and institutions are developing this as a very lucrative future source of revenue.
I maintain, that nanotechnology will become a big part of our lives in a decade, maybe earlier depending on how fast companies get this into production for medicine, semiconductors, and various other applications. I also propose that by 2020 there will be some sort of commonplace AI, perhaps a companion robot or butler type, as well as robots being constructed for dangeous work in the military.
Science Fiction 1980: Planets beyond our Solar System
Science Fact 2003: They've discovered the existence of over 100 worlds of about Jupiter's size or larger around various local stars in our galactic neighborhood.
Science Fiction 2003: Replicators
Science Fact: ? Nanotechnology?
Science Fiction 2003: Teleportation
Science Fact: They've only teleported light so far, so just have to wait until the physics behind it is understood.
Science Fiction 2003: Antigravity
Science Fact: JPL is studying and experimenting with some promising work done by a Russian scientist.
Science Fiction 2003: Cold Fusion
Science Fact: Using soundwaves in a kind of fluid they've been able to heat gas to plasma, no official cold fusion reactors though.
Science Fiction 2003: The Confirmed PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED Existance of Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life.
Science Fact: SETI is currently enguaged in the search for intelligently transmitted radio, or other electromagnetic signals from space.
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