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Nanotechnology: the Good, the Bad, the Hyperbole
pillageplunder writes "A very informative interview with Kristen Kulinowski who is an executive Director at the Federally funded Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology at Rice University. A good well balanced read."
I don't have the smallest interest in nanotech.
Actually, go ahead and slashdot the www.ruf.rice.edu - that way, I'll have an excuse for some of the work that I was supposed to turn in yesterday (I'm a student at Rice).
Uninformative yet balanced :)
Psst. It's fiction.
I am able to upgrade myself and change my structure. I just upgraded myself from that of an open framework to that of a humanoid male. More upgrades will be scheduled.
Nanootechnology
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
Warbot 1Alpha seems to be upgrading itself out of control. I did not program that function into it. I will soon be shutting off it's net access and powering it down to disable it.
:)
Sorry for the inconvenience, I'll go get a hammer and a wrench....
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"What isn't here, and probably never will be, is the SciFi "self-assembly" nanotech. Throw out some powder on a rock and watch it turn it into a new car. Or something equally silly."
Well I'm a sucker, then. The guy at the garden store talked me into buying this packet of seeds. Said if I just sprinkled them on some dirt, in 3 months I'd have tomatoes. Too bad I didn't see your post first. Then I'd know he had no idea what he was talking about.
It is not unreasonable to expect that at some point in the future we will be able to create machines with these characteristics.
Not unreasonable? Next thing you know you'll be telling me that we'll be able to make flying machines! How absurd! Even if we could make such "flying machines" as you suggest, I see no use for them what so ever. Whats next? Suggesting we could send voice over wires? ABSURD I TELL YOU! What use would such a device have?
Nanotechnology indeed, if we can't do it today, I find it highly unlikely it could ever be accomplished. Harumph!
What if, one night as you slept, tens of thousands of very small, very strong gnomes crept all over your skin. At a pre-arranged signal, they would each grab the base of a different hair follicle, count to three, and give it a good hard yank.
Shocked, confused, and bald all the way down to your eyebrows. Not a good way to wake up.
That, in a nutshell, is my entire argument against further development of nanotechnology.
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!