Rise of the Nanobots

splinter writes "How nanotechnology will change the world is an article predicting that, as in the last turn of the century, an industrial revolution is coming soon - only this time we will see molecular nanotechnology rather than automobiles. " Mmmm...nanites. Beautiful, beautiful [nanites].

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Nanites for personal grooming.

[bgarcia]

Now here's a use for nanites that every geek would love.

Don't you hate having to stop programming and web-surfing to do those mundane chores like showering, blowing your nose, etc.? Wouldn't it be great to have nanites invading every part of your body, taking care of all the drudgery for you?

That's what I really want. Nanites up my nose. I'm sick of having to keep a box of Facial Tissues handy at all times.

99 little bugs in the code, 99 bugs in the code,
fix one bug, compile it again...

Very small steps

[samael]

Yet again, an article in which people talk about the wonderful (and terrible) things that nanotechnology has in store for us. These people don't seem to have any idea about the massive scale we're looking at here.

I don't want to be a killjoy, but we're still taking the very, very first few step. The equivalent of looking at Hero's engine and talking about spaceships.

Nanotech will be very very useful for certain things, but I suspect it will be a niche product for a long time, happily taking one very simple thing and turning it into another simple thing.

Remember, we still know very, very little about how our own cells are constructed. Trying to create a nanobot than can go in there and create new ones is a great idea, but it's not going to be here next week (or next year, or maybe not next century).

I suspect that our only hopy will be developing AI powerful enough to do all the hard work for us... (and that's another really big job)