Nano-technology In Not So Far Future?
<div class="IPBDescription">It isn't sci-fi!</div> Some terms about nano-tech described in the NS Manual seems pure fiction for plain ppl, but no!:
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<!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> scientists!!!
no really though thats interesting stuff
Ummm.. I was sure that the moon revolved around the earth, right? Wouldn't the cord wrap around they earth?
Jeff Paris, our writer, is a pretty big science nut. Guess it pays off <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Grey Goo Scenario = self replicating nano machines that never stop replicating. Eventually all matter will be absorbed. The planet and possibly the universe = pwned.
Hemophiliacs would not have to worry about bleeding. Body-builders would not have to worry about recovery time. Car accidents would be much less fatal. Wars might not require medics and a soldier blinded by shrapnel might one day gain his sight back.
You get the idea. It's some complicated technology but I'm sure there is a HUGE market for it in years to come. I would not be surprised if in our lifetimes we saw stuff like this.
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pay you five bucks to smuggle out a dixie cup of them then mail em to me.....
.. I shall make them do my bidding--- erm, laundry
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I heard they made a noano tube gear less then the size of a hair strand.
I also read somewhere that the problem in production is the consitency in the width of nano tubes or something like that.
Grey Goo Scenario = self replicating nano machines that never stop replicating. Eventually all matter will be absorbed. The planet and possibly the universe = pwned.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
... And in comes the Chaos Theory to save the day <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Nanotech is, together with genetic engeneering, the change-all of our generation. I'm absolutely sure it'll change the world we live in as fundamentally as electricity. There will be risks - there are always risks - but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try it.
"Hey baby, wanna go back to my place? I got nano pants!"
hahaha
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pay you five bucks to smuggle out a dixie cup of them then mail em to me.....
.. I shall make them do my bidding--- erm, laundry
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Umm... yeah. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
I work in this field. At least on the nano-electronics side. The problem is, the word 'nano-tech' is used to describe half a dozen different technologies. The main focus of nano-electronics is quantum computing, simply because it's where all the money is. Things are improving though, and at the moment quantum dots and carbon nanotubes are head to head in terms of being a feasible implementation. Still, there are allot of problems which need solving. At the moment, such solid-state implementations only seem to consist of a handful of qubits, operating at mk temperatures (very close to absolute zero). As far as I know, noone has successfully performed any of the famous QC algorithms with such a solid-state system. Plus, there is /no/ way these systems would ever work at anything approaching room temperature.
Though, HP laps in the UK are having great success with quantum cryptography.
As for little robots et al (I just read the Crichton book... yes the ending is terrible), who knows? The field most academics are interested involves quantum coherence, and transport, et al.. so things like actual implementation of nano-scale fabrication techniques to effectively macroscopic technologies are only done by companies, who don't tell you anything!
Tirion
Bug Stompers: We Endanger Species.
Look what I came across this morning:
<a href='http://utdallas.edu/utdgeneral/news/nanoborder.html' target='_blank'>http://utdallas.edu/utdgeneral/news/nanoborder.html</a>
The facility I mentioned in my previous post is also mentioned in the article:
<i>UTD became involved in nanotechnology in a big way some 18 months ago, when it hired two renowned experts from Honeywell International, Drs. Ray Baughman and Anvar Zakhidov, and established the UTD NanoTech Institute. Since then, the university has become a hotbed for the cutting-edge science, forging cooperative research agreements with Jilin University in China and the National Research Council and the University of Alberta in Canada.
Last August, UTD's reputation as a leader in nanotechnology research was boosted further when Nobel laureate Dr. Alan MacDiarmid joined the university's faculty. MacDiarmid, who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry, has pioneered research in the field of nanoelectronics in recent years.</i>
There's already mind-control substance in your water, why would they need nano-tech?
hehe.
Too much? Deus Ex? Not possible.
And my whole deal about "only having time to play one game at a time?" That will go out the window when DX2 is released. I will MAKE TIME for that. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
you have restored some of my faith to the game devs around the world <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->(began to be paranoid about the future of the games on the PC), and noone told me, just though it was that way 'cos i only found a PS2 preview article on fileplanet....
PCGamer said that DX2 would be on consoles in addition to the PC, and for that reason some of the interface and options are being simplified. Still, the sequel to my favorite single player game of all time would really have to do some extra work to suck, IMHO
Or micro processors as fast a next-gen AMD Clawhammer, the size of a pin, you know, that works too.
And even then, there's still thousands of things that you could do with nanotech. For instance, get a cloud of this stuff to form above a battlefeild. It floats, and forms an eye, to watch over the battle. Good luck trying to shoot it down.
Or, body armor! Vest assembled that's as light as cotton, but can stop a 12 MM round dead! Add in some plates for a crumplinge ffect when the slug strikes it so the force of the shell doesn't liquify the user's organs, and you're alright...
Or, Surfaces that are assembled on the microscopic level, so there's less surface area from ridges, so there's less rusting and such...
Things like that.