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When all they do is talk, they can talk about a lot of fancy stuff, but talk is all they've done. I see this field becoming as big as controlled nuclear fusion research -- a huge money pit for the last 50 years that has produced nothing.

I see this field becoming as big as controlled nuclear fusion research -- a huge money pit for the last 50 years that has produced nothing.

Except that most of the research is being done by private industry and by numerous companies, including many very big and established ones. Not only that, if you follow that general field you will notice that advances are being made VERY fast. As I said earlier, I am intimately familiar with the field as an observer and even I am somewhat stunned by the blinding pace of improvements and discoveries. I honestly did not think they would be hitting milestones as fast as they are, and I considered myself a fairly well-informed optimist.

In some ways, this is actually quite a bit easier than fusion research. The nature of the problems are simpler and easy to do research on, all things considered.

Actually the appications for nano-technology is far more than most people can dream.

Unlike a protien, chemical or virus, you can program a nanite to do what you want it to do.

Also, technology has come up with a perfect material to have nanites use to built things, it is called carbon-nanotubes. It is really some fun stuff, go look it up.