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... Across the world, universities and government institutions are making advances in nano-technology that could shatter todays concept of electronics. ... One such rumor is of a molecular device capable of functioning as RAM in a nano-computer. ... Nano-produced computer components would not require any such plant. While the current trend provides that with the advances in computer technology, the more finicky they are to produce. ... In 1998, the White House Science and Technology Council created the Interagency Working Group charged with developing ideas for future nanotechnology in 10-20 years from now. ... Problems persist, not with the application of such technology, but with the execution of it. No one, for instance, has discovered a way to link all the nano-particles, which process data as 1s and 0s together. ... As with any other technology, the bumps in the road and problems to come will meet with new questions and innovative solutions. ... At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, they are working on architectures that resemble their biological counterparts in mammal brains. ... Called a "quantum image" the technique demonstrates that it could one day be technologically practical to make a nano-circuit. ... People living before and through the transition - at first and because of prejudice for things we know and because people have not imagined the variety and super rich realm of new possibilities -- the objects failure to everyday life will be sought by the public and reproduced by assembler technology. ... Now, the next generation and generations to follow, born into the age of nanotechnology will a "clean slate" without concrete historical prejudices, will design objects and lifestyles that take advantage of the new wealth of possibilities and I should expect design objects and "environments" that would appear bizarrely alien, extraordinarily novel to even the most advanced nano tinker today. ... Which industries should disappear because of nano-technology? ... Traditional manufacturing will not be able to compete with assembler technology and what happens to all those jobs and the financial markets is a big, big issue that needs to be addressed now. ... As Drexler so intuitively points out, the best thing to do, is to get the whole worlds society educated and understanding what will and can happen with this technology. ... How does the technology evolution of the last thirty years shape the future of your field? ... Yes, technology is moving fast! ... Research in molecular biology, chemistry, and scanning probe microscopy (scopes that can see and move atoms) are laying the foundations for a technology of self-replicating molecular machines by developing positional controlled chemical synthesis. ... If the fields of molecular biology (which some call wet nano), chemistry and solid state physics were all to shut down today and make no more advances, chip manufactures in their quest for evermore speed would develop MNT single handed. ... What is money in a nano age? ... This is the level of technology you seek. ... com) not only could you flood large numbers of nano-robots into a reservoir in order to collect information that characterizes the reservoir conditions, but also program nanites to build capillary collection systems out of the carbon in the oil (diamond), capable of extracting extremely high percentages of a reserve (probably 95-98%). ... Carbon sources, (most important nano building blocks) are numerous. ... The oil business is not alone in the disruptive transition to this most powerful technology. ... You will find these and other subjects of significance on the Magazines webpage such as, "What will be monetarily viable industries in the nano-era? ... Like all technology, nano can be used for good or not so good (serious understatement) and could cause considerable panic to the under informed during the transition. As post-nano international relations thinker Tom McCarthy points out, if Chinas perception of its ancient rival Indias advanced software and technology lead. ... Now conceder this; unlike nuclear, nano is a desktop industry. ... Much larger foglets can be built with todays technology however, the expense of producing enough to do anything useful would be most prohibitive. Filling an average house with the microscopic variety would require trillions of foglets, so the whole concept depends on the economics of automatic nano-assembly to be remotely affordable.
Approximate Word count = 4993
Approximate Pages = 20
(250 words per page double spaced)
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