Comments on: Nanotechnology @ home: Design your own molecular machines http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2447 examining transformative technology Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: DDT-WEBKINZ http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2447#comment-377954 DDT-WEBKINZ Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:28:36 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2447#comment-377954 I thought that the WTO would be a good start for transforming the process of government at least across national borders. I quite like the idea of using the secretariat of the WTO as the centre for a Wikipedia of trade - a sort of open source world government at least for a very specific and complicated issue which needs many brains to provide a solution. I thought that the WTO would be a good start for transforming the process of government at least across national borders. I quite like the idea of using the secretariat of the WTO as the centre for a Wikipedia of trade – a sort of open source world government at least for a very specific and complicated issue which needs many brains to provide a solution.

]]> By: Alex http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2447#comment-179441 Alex Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:37:04 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2447#comment-179441 Looks like the world is one step closer to being able to create these devices: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-03/uoia-mmc031907.php" rel="nofollow">positional assembly</a> has been achieved. Credit goes to <a href="http://advancednano.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">NanoTrends</a> for the link on Slashdot's Firehose. He says: <blockquote>The new technique utilizes mechanical force to alter the course of chemical reactions and yield products not obtainable through conventional conditions. This provides more clear evidence that the concept of site specific chemistry using mechanical placement of molecules is viable. This concept is the basis of molecular nanotechnology. This may become part of a bootstrapping pathway. It disproves those who have said mechanical force could not be used to control chemistry.</blockquote> Looks like the world is one step closer to being able to create these devices: positional assembly has been achieved. Credit goes to NanoTrends for the link on Slashdot’s Firehose. He says:

The new technique utilizes mechanical force to alter the course of chemical reactions and yield products not obtainable through conventional conditions.

This provides more clear evidence that the concept of site specific chemistry using mechanical placement of molecules is viable. This concept is the basis of molecular nanotechnology. This may become part of a bootstrapping pathway. It disproves those who have said mechanical force could not be used to control chemistry.

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