Comments on: NSF: "Moving very fast" toward molecular nanotechnology http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2460 examining transformative technology Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Novak http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2460#comment-210191 Novak Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:40:07 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2460#comment-210191 There are some people who (seem to) regard any investigations into a path that they think will not work, or even is sub-optimal, as almost criminal against the field. I'm afraid I have to put both Drexler <i>and</i> Smalley, and a subset of their various supporters, into this column. In the mean time, the rest of us mere mortals, who haven't got the voice of God whispering infallibly in our ear, will have to remain content that many different paths are being explored in parallel. This is only right and good. (And it's why I do not support any notion of an "Apollo Program for Nanotech.") But, thanks for this link, and the link to the great big report on molecular motors from a week or so ago. Still working through that one in detail. There are some people who (seem to) regard any investigations into a path that they think will not work, or even is sub-optimal, as almost criminal against the field. I’m afraid I have to put both Drexler and Smalley, and a subset of their various supporters, into this column.

In the mean time, the rest of us mere mortals, who haven’t got the voice of God whispering infallibly in our ear, will have to remain content that many different paths are being explored in parallel. This is only right and good. (And it’s why I do not support any notion of an “Apollo Program for Nanotech.”)

But, thanks for this link, and the link to the great big report on molecular motors from a week or so ago. Still working through that one in detail.

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