Nanotech Fabrication is coming - with a mixture of physics, chemistry, computation, and information technology. We have started to get a good look at how our own bodies are formed from a single egg - and intelligence "God" adds the process to have that single cell egg grow into you and me. We are basically taking the biological world - and starting to apply it to the physical, non-living world - fabricating "stuff" from the most basic components - the atoms and molecules of physics and chemistry.
Here is my take on a few recent articles and news releases that have popped up on the Internet this year... Soon - maybe 10 to 20 years, we will be able to buy a "blueprint", or "recipte" for any physical product over the Internet - make sure that there is "toner" in our personal nanofactory, and it will fabricate a cellphone, or a toaster, or some batteries.
Yes - it seems as if matter as we know it - will be reduced to software - an intelligence which knows how to place atom by atom in the proper sequence to make any physical object.
Nanotech Fabrication is the process of constructing things smaller than a few hundred nanometers, or billionths of a meter. To help you visualize - a nanometer is just a couple hundred atoms strung together.
All it is needed, as mentioned above, is intelligence (a software program) and feeder stock (carbon and other types of atoms). The process would take place in a sort of desktop nanofactory - which could conceivably be found in every home.
If you want a new personal communicator, for instance. All you'll need to do is to purchase the "blueprint" on the Internet. This "blueprint" will tell you to insert a sheet of plastic and squirt electrically conductive molecules into the ''toner'' cartridge. The desktop nanofactory will then pass the plastic back and forth, laying down patterns of molecules, then electrically direct them to assemble themselves into circuits and an antenna. Next, using different ''toners,'' the home nanofactory will add a keypad, and speaker - finishing off with the shell of the personal communicator's case.
Such notions sound like science fiction to most - but in the USA they have grabbed Washington's attention. Congress seems eager to spend a lot more on nanotech research, with hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked for research and development. And the White House is on the nanotech fabrication train as well - it has already tagged nanotech as one of its targeted research areas.
There are sources where you can find out more about nanotechnology, nanotech fabrication, and molecular manufacturing - a good source is the open source encyclopedia - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotech.
This website is ahead of its time - and it was constructed for the layperson - who has started hearing about this thing called nanotechnology and wants to find out a "bit more". As proper articles and news stories are found from around the Internet - they will be added to nanotech fabrication dot com - to help keep you informed about this exciting new technology which is just over the horizon.
Nanotech Fabrication is coming - with a mixture of physics, chemistry, computation, and information technology. We have started to get a good look at how our own bodies are formed from a single egg - and intelligence "God" adds the process to have that single cell egg grow into you and me. We are basically taking the biological world - and starting to apply it to the physical, non-living world - fabricating "stuff" from the most basic components - the atoms and molecules of physics and chemistry.
If you want a new personal communicator, for instance. All you'll need to do is to purchase the "blueprint" on the Internet. This "blueprint" will tell you to insert a sheet of plastic and squirt electrically conductive molecules into the ''toner'' cartridge. The desktop nanofactory will then pass the plastic back and forth, laying down patterns of molecules, then electrically direct them to assemble themselves into circuits and an antenna. Next, using different ''toners,'' the home nanofactory will add a keypad, and speaker - finishing off with the shell of the personal communicator's case.