Productlaneevol Vs. Productive Nanosystems

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Desktop Nanofactory

Welcome to Desktop Nanofactory. A desktop nanofactory is a proposed system in which nanomachines (like little industrial robot arms) would combine reactive molecules to build larger atomically precise parts. These, in turn, would be assembled by positioning mechanisms of assorted sizes to build macroscopic (visible) but still atomically-precise products. The concept is to build any physical item from the bottom up – using the smallest of parts – atoms and molecules.

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When desktop nanofactories are built (we predict by 2015 to 2020), severe disruption to the world economy would ensue because the economic model since the dawn of mankind was based on scarcity. With desktop nanofactories in every home, the economic model would be turned upside down and be based on surplus. Products would be made from recycled “toner” – which are just the appropriately configured chemical compounds needed for the produced product – and the true value added component would just be the intelligence (software program) to run the desktop nanofactory.

A typical nanofactory would fit in a desktop box. Here’s a typical desktop nanofactory – this animation video was made in 2005.

Fullerene Impact on Single-Walled (10,10) Armchair Nanotube

Fullerene impact on a single-walled (10,10) armchair nanotube lying on a metallic substrate. Nanotube-based quantum dots may potentially be produced if fullerenes hit the nanotubes in predetermined positions.

Another Strange Interlude

Strange Interlude is one of the few modern plays to make extensive use of a soliloquy technique, in which the characters speak their inner thoughts to the audience. Some productions have had the actors carry masks to distinguish their spoken dialogue from their soliloquies, although most productions allow the distinction to be made through acting style alone. The soliloquies in Strange Interlude mostly take the form of relatively brief side comments, not of lengthy speeches in the Shakespearean manner. People have been worried about nanotechnology for quite some time now; nano-asbestos, advanced nano-enabled weapons, and self-replicating gray goo nanobots that accidentally go out of control. But what if everything goes right? What if nanotubes and nanoparticles are functionalized to stay out of the ecosystem? What if there are no major wars? What if nanoreplicators are never built, or if they are, they use modern error correction software to never mutate? What happens if nanotechnology fulfills humanitys desires perfectly? In the next decade or so, a new type of desktop appliance will be developed—a nanofactory that consists of very many productive nanosystems—atomically precise nanoscale machines that work together to build bulk amounts of atomically precise products. The Foresight Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems has identified a number of different approaches for building these atomically precise systems of machines that can produce other nanosystems www …

Dangers of Molecular Nanotechnology (MNT) Prt 1

If potential benefits of molecular nanotechnology (MNT) sound too good to be true, there is one caveat — the potential dangers of molecular nanotechnology. When nanofactories can arrange atoms into structures — playing with the building blocks of life itself, or in this case nanoblocks — theoretically anything allowable by the laws of physics can be created fast and cheap. Requirements include a few square feet for the nanofactory, the software, and an electrical outlet. Criminals, terrorists, disturbed individuals, governments, and antisocial groups of all stripes would be incredibly empowered by such technology. Additional potential dangers of molecular nanotechnology threaten the economy, environment, human rights, and world peace. The rush to gain supremacy through nanoweaponry could lead to a new arms race, while attempts to stranglehold the technology would likely result in independent, covert development. Unilateral, “open-source” international cooperation is another option that runs its own risks, and control in the public sector could lead to inequitable benefits and an Orwellian society. The probability factor of certain potential dangers of molecular nanotechnology will be higher than others, but all are possible within a scope of circumstances that, without prevention through forethought and planning, could feasibly come to pass. Some dangers cannot be discounted even with said planning, while others can reasonably be assumed to be goals of recognized …