Nanotechnology Threatens America

Newsmax.com ^ | Friday, Aug. 15, 2003 | Lev Navrozov

[forewarning]

The U.S. "National Nanotechnology Initiative" isn't funding this strategic sort of nanotechnology. It instead funds a mish-mosh of nanoscale science and technology.

[forewarning]

Ping.

[isthisnickcool]

Nano nano....

[Consort]

Little things mean a lot.

[John Valentine]

Maybe it's powered by red mercury.

Or maybe it's total crap.

You decide, but first better don the old tinfoil helmet.

By the way, did any one else notice the total lack of facts in this piece?

[FairOpinion]

As everything else, nanotechnology can be used for good and evil, pardon the cliche.

But I do agree that countries like Russia and China and others look first for military applications, and we should definitely not ignore those applications, while focusing on science and medicine.

[general_re]

As everything else, nanotechnology can be used for good and evil, pardon the cliche.

Given that it's all so much pie-in-the-sky, it can't actually be used for anything yet ;)

[KeyWest]

This is a bit much. I have difficulty bridging the huge leap from moving some atoms to developing a submarine sensor that also calls home. We had a hard enough time developing the complex sosus system then a self replicating system sosus. This is more reynolds wrap than fact.

[The Duke]

"Nanotechnology"? ... Don't kid me about my sex life!

[searchandrecovery]

It's a small world after all.

[BushCountry]

The author needs to ensure that the nanobots have not entered his bloodstream and are rewiring his brain. If they did, I think they screwed-up. This is utter nonsense on so many levels.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

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[King Prout]

you mean, like the way they flat out failed to mention that the leaders in nanotech are MIT and some Japanese concerns, and that the best those groups can do with the acme of cutting-edge tech is very limited 'bots the size of a postal stamp? Yes, I noticed that.

[Gorzaloon]

The only destruction nanotechnology will do is to the poor suckers who invest in it.

It's overhyped, much like the Net was in the 90's.

There are benefits, such as targeted delivery of anticancer drugs by liposomes, and the preparation of new materials, such as "Glassy" metals, and interesting applications of nanotubes and buckyballs. It is an exciting field of materials science.

But truthfully, the wild projections have one purpose only.

Your Money.

[American in Israel]

By the way, did any one else notice the total lack of facts in this piece?

Yep, it pretty much discredited the subject for me.

I'll see your molecular assembler and raise you one hyper zonkafier my pretty...

[genefromjersey]

I just started reading a Michael Crichton novel that talks about nano-tech : programmed "machines"-the size of a typical virus- that use a computer-generated "hive mind" to perform tasks together, and, ( I presume ) escape human control.

[dighton]

EROS
Even now, your scientists are working on a way to harness the sun's rays. The rays of sunlight are minute particles. Is it so far from your imagination they cannot do as I have suggested?

COL. EDWARDS
Why a particle of sunlight can't even be seen or measured.

EROS
Can you see or measure an atom? Yet you can explode one. A ray of sunlight is made up many atoms.

JEFF
So what if we do developed this solaronite bomb? We'd be even a stronger nation than now.

EROS
Stronger. You see? You see? Your stupid minds...stupid! Stupid!!

-- Plan 9 from Outer Space.

[ChadGore]

Re :Nano power does not burn

It's statements like this that make me worry.
Nano is simply an unit of measurement meaning One-billionth (10-9). it's like saying 'kilo power', 'centimeter power', or 'milimeter power'.

[Mr. K]

A molecular level 'self replicator' ? hardly likely given that we can even do such stuff in current technology.

Has anyone ever heard of or seen a normal size machine that can do that?

[Constitution Day]

"We're-all-gonna-die!" Alert