Nanotechnology, sometimes shortened to nanotech, refers to a field of applied science whose theme is the control of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures 100 nanometers or smaller, and involves developing materials or devices within that size. Nanotechnology is an extremely diverse and multidisciplinary field, ranging from novel extensions of conventional device physics, to completely new approaches based upon molecular self-assembly, to developing new materials with dimensions on the nanoscale, or the scale of nothing, even to speculation on whether we can directly control matter on the atomic scale. There has been much debate on the future implications of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology has the potential to create many new materials and devices with wide-ranging applications, such as in medicine, electronics, and energy production. On the other hand, nanotechnology raises many of the same issues as with any introduction of new technology, including concerns about the toxicity and environmental impact of nanomaterials, and their potential effects on global economics, as well as speculation about various doomsday scenarios. These concerns have lead to a debate among advocacy groups and governments on whether special regulation of nanotechnology is warranted.
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@blanknot
If you are not trolling you are a complete idiot.
Not everything in this world comes from the bible.
Is the computer you typed your message real? Then how come the Christian Bibles doesn’t mention it once?
Comment by LithuanianLabas — September 10, 2010 @ 1:48 am
great vid, thx
Comment by TheUnslaved — September 10, 2010 @ 2:29 am
@aristoteles311 Ah ha! Excellent point. ty
Comment by blanknot — September 10, 2010 @ 3:05 am
@blanknot it will in 30 years theyll on of the tribesmans name was nan and it was meant as a symbol
Comment by aristoteles311 — September 10, 2010 @ 3:18 am
If nano technology is real, then how come the Christian Bibles doesn’t mention it once?
Comment by blanknot — September 10, 2010 @ 3:23 am
4:00 why is his voice so awkward?! D=
Comment by Bloody5451 — September 10, 2010 @ 3:41 am
russians made new armor technology the new armor is hameleon like predator movie and if armor broked repairing itself and also made up new ammos by nanotechnology
Comment by erkhesod — September 10, 2010 @ 3:54 am
significant improvements in speed. Similarly, nickel-vapour deposition technology constructs a metallic form atom by atom; the principal drawback is low speed and lousy accuracy on the side opposite the tooling (not to mention inapplicability to other base metals and some annoying geometric constraints which I won’t bore you with). The same is true of laser-based rapid-prototyping technologies, which are not only slow and expensive but also limited to weak plastic items.
Comment by TheJamesrocket — September 10, 2010 @ 4:30 am
exceptional chemical and microstructural purity as well as the ability to produce highly accurate and complex shapes (on one side; the other side looks like hell). However, they are ridiculously slow, which makes them ridiculously expensive (I still remember the first time I picked up a piece; it was smaller than a tape measure and its price tag was in the tens of thousands of dollars). This is not a problem which will magically go away; many years of development have not resulted in
Comment by TheJamesrocket — September 10, 2010 @ 4:46 am
@a1289jeza Nanotechnology disciples tend to talk about the wonders of building something “molecule by molecule”, as if this would make all manufacturing cheap and near-instantaneous. However, they never ask the looming question: what’s so great about building something molecule by molecule? Do they realize that such microscopically incremental manufacturing techniques already exist? Electroplate growth manufacturing techniques are real. They build items atom by atom, and the result has
Comment by TheJamesrocket — September 10, 2010 @ 5:40 am
@TheJamesrocket – Um nanotech is talking about basic constructs- IE no CPU, if its a machine structure (like the small turbine they made) then it will probably be powered by enviromental factors- ie fluidity or molecular or chemical reaction. Nano tech is not so much about small robots as small constructs. IE nanotechnology has recently improved carbon structures allowing a neuton strength measurement almost 5000 times stronger than metal. There are numerous other constructs suggested.
Comment by a1289jeza — September 10, 2010 @ 6:26 am
@a1289jeza ‘ Nanotechnology and its ability for carbon scrubbing, could solve the CO2 issues the world is facing.’ Yeah, and then all we have is a few trillion nanomachines to deal with. Of course, they would be easily destroyed by a nuke. Anyway, what would the nanobots power source be? What will its CPU be like? If it can’t think, then how does it work? Does it need to refuel? How does it co-ordinate its activitys, or see what it is doing?
Comment by TheJamesrocket — September 10, 2010 @ 6:26 am
vitrohype… great info; thanks for posting. Can you remove some of the posts with offensive language so this could be shared with little folks like grand children who could learn something. Some people will never lift their communications our of the gutter to the level of this kind of intelligent information.
Comment by traintowns106 — September 10, 2010 @ 7:25 am
@TheJamesrocket They aren’t robots……. Molecular construction is about creating substructures or simple engines that allow us in turn to facilitate an outcome. IE filtering, improved light emition, improved energy transference. We can’t produce ‘robots’ at that level simply because there is little method of ‘programing’ beyond physical measure. Biological science has more worries that nano. And even then its so minimal only the most fundamental or fearful has reason to really fear.
Comment by a1289jeza — September 10, 2010 @ 8:06 am
@razorback497 Nanotechnology doesn’t have its own intelligence. Nanotechnology and its ability for carbon scrubbing, could solve the CO2 issues the world is facing. Water pollution, improved dialysis for kidney failure ..the list goes on and on.
Comment by a1289jeza — September 10, 2010 @ 8:57 am
so could quantum confinement be used to increase to kinetic output of say a atomic bomb?
Comment by rohontsiawaks — September 10, 2010 @ 9:16 am
@TheJamesrocket thats really strange as you are made from bacterium and canot live or exist without it.. you guys are funny
Comment by smolenskiii — September 10, 2010 @ 9:58 am
I bought mechanics of creation by eric drexler in 1986 when it became available, and have watched as our nano era has progressed, congratulations Eric you have stayed the course and while big business have mostly watched some that have adopted molecular manufacturing will help advance our planet and in time will bring radical change to humanity for the better good.
Comment by smolenskiii — September 10, 2010 @ 10:20 am
@TheJamesrocket Nanotechnology is just wrong in so many ways. The only thing its really good for is making small scale electronic components for near material cost (no labor pay, or electricity pay). And it has alot of potential downsides that you failed to mention, like if they ever broke out and went rogue. I just don’t like it.
Comment by razorback497 — September 10, 2010 @ 11:14 am
@algea07 Is that what you say to everyone who doesn’t embrace your little nanotech heaven?
Comment by TheJamesrocket — September 10, 2010 @ 11:52 am
1:41 mac in the background = fail
Comment by bloodtracer100 — September 10, 2010 @ 12:41 pm
@TheJamesrocket and i suppose you still get around on a horse, and have a life expectancy of 35.
Comment by algea07 — September 10, 2010 @ 1:15 pm
cryonics?
Comment by DK0526 — September 10, 2010 @ 1:32 pm
@noneactive I hate retarded comments too. But I think that there ARE people within contemporary governments who may not always have the interest of the general public at heart. Looking at your statement that ‘evil governments don’t exist’ from a historical standpoint however, I just have to remind you that Hitler, Mao and Stalin killed a SHIT LOAD OF PEOPLE, based on that fact alone evil governments do and have existed. And talk to any lawer and they’ll tell you conspiracies DO INFACT EXIST.
Comment by TheHighDensity — September 10, 2010 @ 2:10 pm
@joshua99999999 I’m one of the odd people in todays quick fix society that loathes the idea of putting an unnatural substance into my body. Thats just me. I wouldn’t take any recreational drugs in high school, and I sure as hell won’t trust my life to a machine with the I.Q of a bacterium. I’d rather heal the cut naturally, with time, patience, and the DNA mother nature gave me.
Comment by TheJamesrocket — September 10, 2010 @ 2:10 pm