Nano Technology Pros and Cons

[Meat Puppet]

Just finished Drexlers book several mos ago. And thought It would be interesting to see how All of you felt about it.

The ability to manufacture items on the atomic level is a truly awsome ability.

Think about it the only fatalities would be instant death trauma. Famine would be like smallpox a near dead epidemic.

Drexlers got one heck of a pipe dream. It'll be interesting to see what happens as this technology emerges.......

[Meat Puppet]

I tend to agree with you the boon to the computer industry alone would be staggering.

.18 micron in Cpu's would be considered huge by the standards of this technology engineered, not to mention superconductors that work at room temp. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

The desktop I'm typing from now would be a Tamagotchi in comparison to the computers this technology would be able to produce..

As far as someone destroying the earth with nano machines I think that would fall into the same catagory as nuclear weapons.

Every country may want them but no-ones crazy enough to use them. At least I hope. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

P.S see this page and check out the diagram on diamond memory http://www.nanozine.com Youll find it at the bottom of the nano machine gallery a truly awsome hard drive http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

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[GlobalNameSpace]

I read a Drexler book a few years ago. And was amazed by the possiblity's.

Of course some people have a more cautious very. An interesting read: www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html)
Written by one of the creators of JAVA.

Basically says - the human race would be no match against a 'grey goo' of self-replicating nanomachines released to destroy.And that machines will be the decision makers of the future because they will be smarter at those kinda things

When i think about 1996, when Windows95 was just hitting mainstream conciousness and where we have gone in those 4 years. (From a mostly bannerless internet to one where billboards are on everystreet corner)(When you have use eeuncode to get a picture)(No Internet Explorer)
It seems very possible that even more wonders are in store.
Like the the flip switches made with molecular persision. As small as possible. Literally. Of course my non-computer literate friend doesn't believe me when I say Computers talk in 100 billionths of seconds. he thinks it's too close to instantanious.
It will be fun when this stuff is being used.

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[KillerBug]

Now that there is software that thinks, not that responds very well, but actualy thinks, and can do thinks that it is not told to, or even alowed to, perhapse Terminator and Terminator 2 will happen....

I do have one comment of a serious nature, I can't wait for Nano-cpus, so fast that computers would not be able to be measured in MHZ, or GHZ, THZ, BHZ, anything, it would be so increadably fast! But it it crashed, would it blow up?