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- shibbles123, on 10/26/2007, -0/+11I am a Material Science and Engineering major at Uconn, and this article has so much hype/simplified terms/ doom scenarios its just ridiculous. The biggest advances will be for nanomedicines (cancer treatment) because coated nanoparticles used for bio-imaging have already been proven to highlight tumor cells (and could possibly be used for radiation targeting to eliminate cancer cells). Diamonds can already be reproduced, although unlike desirable natural diamonds, they have no defects and are transparent. Google ultracapacitors, thin-film photovoltaics, biomaterials if you want to get excited about future apps. of nanotechnology. Nanoparticles can be built to replicate the structure of viruses to make the human body create antibodies without ever being in real danger. Nanomedicines can target specific areas of the body to eliminate side effects seen in almost every commercial drug. I dont know what idiot is talking about not needing money and the world being taken over by nanorobots making green or grey or rainbow goo. Someone should know a bit more before googling nanotechnology and trying to teach it by citing various internet sources.
- HadleyRille, on 10/26/2007, -1/+12We're so close to this it's not even science fiction anymore. It's incredibly exciting, but there are plenty of drawbacks. Read Michael Crichton's PREY as an example; it's fiction, yes, but still a good introduction to the dangers of unchecked nanotech rum amok.
- Smilex, on 10/26/2007, -1/+9I graduated high school in 2000, and during the convocation ceremony one of the honour students stated his intention to study nano-technology.
People in the audience chuckled (they were mostly parents, I imagine).
I'm excited to see where we are in another 7 years. - tucsonsun13, on 10/26/2007, -0/+6One of the country's leading nanotech labs......
http://www.biodesign.asu.edu/ - inactive, on 10/26/2007, -1/+7How nanotechnology works? That's easy... It was all reverse engineered from Megatron.
- KevenM, on 10/26/2007, -2/+7if you measure your penis in nanometers, it might make you feel better about its size
- giveer, on 10/26/2007, -0/+5Nice. Lemme know when they've made a holodeck with a Knightley add-on.
- neodorian, on 10/26/2007, -0/+4The Diamond Age is upon us.
/chiseled spam - stoanhart, on 10/26/2007, -0/+3Read The Diamond Age by Neal Stepheson.
- MixMastaKooz, on 10/26/2007, -0/+3It's very important stuff! We've opened up a small nanotech area in the museum I work at...We use a lot of Legos with oven mitts to show how hard it is to move objects at the nanoscale. Kids get a kick out of it!
http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1637115460&con ...
http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1636285457&siz ... - fixedcoma, on 10/26/2007, -0/+3I wonder if it is possible to make a miniaturized NUKE? Wonder what kind of devastation it could cause? Imagine how easy it would be to transport! You could probably take out a city block or something! These lovely ideas i have!
- shadowblade989, on 10/26/2007, -2/+4We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
- MasterPlayer, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2Nanotechnology is so new, according to Firefox's spell check, it isn't even a word. I think nanotechnolgy is the most exciting field in engineering. I was considering what kind of engineer I wanted to be, I would choose it since it is so new and soon there will be a huge demand for nanotechnology engineers (in contrast to the overly saturated computer engineering field.)
- shibbles123, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2nanotechnology is changing computer memory right NOW. In a few years, instead of hard drives and RAM, there will be a universal memory that is either controlled by phase changes (kind of like solid/liquid/gas) or giant magnetoresistance, GMR, which a nobel prize was just awarded for. This means when you turn on your computer, theres NO boot up period, its just instantly on, ready to use.
- ferory, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2I am two months into a nanotechnology undergrad at the University of Waterloo. The hype is incredible, or at least our professors make it seem so. It's such a widely applicable field that the amount of potential uses is incalcuable. If you are going into engineering now I highly recommend taking Nanotechnology. w/o a doubt
- tucsonsun13, on 10/26/2007, -2/+4Actually it's described in those terms so that it may be fathomable. I get what you are saying,, however, and it is difficult to picture a measurement that incredibly small, also something you have never seen before.
- iticu, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1Whatever man, I have my tinfoil hat. Now i'm just waiting for them to invent a tinfoil hat out of nano-technology, that'll show them!
- MattBD, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1I've heard before that one of the first things we're likely to get with mature nanotech is immortality and complete physical rejuvenation. Just think - you could be a couple of hundred years old but look twenty. Plus no-one would suffer the very nasty effects of aging - having had to cope with an elderly relative with vascular dementia in the last year, I wouldn't want anyone to suffer that.
- kurtu5, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1Is GMR nanotech? Im new to GMR, but thanks to wikipedia I discovered that this is simply VLSI fabricated memory, or bulk manufactured hard drive heads.
- Julolidine, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1The amusing thing is that nanotech's first measurable and perhaps largest impact will be in the area of materials, which most people consider a very non-"tech" item. However, materials build the world, and better materials = better world. Beyond that it will touch our lives in many ways, but they will be non-obvious in their relationship to nanotech - ie. making higher efficiency solar panels with quantum dots, etc.
- rnwen2750, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1That book freaked me out.
- shibbles123, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1actually, TEM's or transmission electron microscopes can view nanoparticles, so maybe you're just uneducated? and its 1/50,000 of a human hair (done with Asian hair) or 10 hydrogen atoms lined up=1nm
- mb3581, on 10/26/2007, -1/+2I dont care how it works...I want to know when it will become a viable resource for medicine, building, technology...saving the world
- Smills, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1Actually, that just makes me more depressed :(
- kurtu5, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1Thank you. Ive read Criton. I've loved Criton. Prey sucks.
- Yune, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1The "doom scenarios" as shibbles123 put it are completely ridiculous. It is sad that fields like these (and others including stem-cell research) are not growing as fast as they should. These things save lives, not end them!
- iticu, on 10/26/2007, -1/+2Is it possible to kill other Nano-Technologys with your Nano-Technologys?
If so, I should imagine the person with the most money wins. What a joy .. - polyGone, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1I liked midnight by Dean Koontz. I read it before I even knew what nanotech was.....
- buffbuddha, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1You will comply
- kurtu5, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1BASF we dont make the materials we make the commercials
- Kappa00, on 10/27/2007, -2/+2ahahahahhahahahahahah
- drunkwally, on 10/26/2007, -1/+1Nukes work by chain reaction, you need enough material available so that the number of neutrons flying about missing stuff (atoms are mostly empty space) are less than the neutrons being generated by nuclear processes. So getting a high energy reaction wouldn't really be possible on a very small scale. If you are from Iran, these are not instructions, please don't read this.
Having said that, I'm sure better bombs are something someone is working on. - KevenM, on 10/26/2007, -1/+1very cool book, though some of the premises upon which such a devastating outcome could occur are fairly easily guarded against.
- quickricky, on 10/26/2007, -1/+1If we use Nanotechnology for good, the human race will benefit. I just hope we don't create some killer mutant nano virus that mutates with another regular virus. But I welcome singularity with open arms.
- encrypter, on 10/26/2007, -1/+1I'm really interested in applying to UW, and I'm interested in Mechatronics/Systems Design. What is your opinion on that? Are people enjoying it? There are so many options and I'm struggling to pick one of them. Thanks.
- iticu, on 10/26/2007, -1/+1So; Nano-Armageddon, yay or ney?
- ButchersBoy, on 10/26/2007, -1/+1PREY is a ***** book if you have an IQ over 100.
- navitatl, on 10/26/2007, -1/+1It's smaller than you can comprehend with 100% of your brain.
- deltaandroid, on 10/26/2007, -1/+1As I will do onto you
- Easyoffbam, on 10/26/2007, -1/+0I think my head asplode.
- hiPpymIck, on 10/26/2007, -2/+1theres this free online movie set in the near future about nanotech
- theres a hacker called Digger in it
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http://infestwisely.com/episodes.html - VonnegutSpeaks, on 10/26/2007, -8/+1"A nanometer (nm) is one-billionth of a meter, smaller than the wavelength of visible light and a hundred-thousandth the width of a human hair" -- unfathomable.
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