Comments on: Zyvex founder Jim Von Ehr: “Rudimentary molecular manufacturing by 2020″

By: Nano Boy

Nano Boy — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:50:04 +0000

There is a misconception that more money= faster/better results. Companies and researchers such as zyvex are the ones who go out and seek the funding the need. The $25M is really more about the demand. We are fortunate to live in a world of diversity where we can all pursue what we feel is most important. The amount of funding is proportional to the amount of present commercial and scientific interest on the side of innovators.

By: tom

tom — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:29:39 +0000

i’m sure the technology is going to be great , but saying it can do everything… or ever thing that wet nanotech (biology) can’t…
is giving nanotech a bad hyped name , and prepering one self for a major let down.

By: Nanoman

Nanoman — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:47:43 +0000

This is superb news. I hope it pans out. It is so frustrating to see resources squandered on so many side issues when if we would as a society invest in true molecular manufacturing, many of these matters could be dealt with, as James Gentile and others here have pointed out! Example: Health care. If America and others built a molecular manufacturing base, we could produce nanomedical systems that would make the health care issue moot because nanomed devices could be programmed to cure all these physical diseases from the molecular root of them.

By: James Gentile

James Gentile — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:21:14 +0000

$25 million, that’s all our future is worth. The ability to perfectly clean the ecosystem of all pollutants, cure all the terrible diseases in our world, reverse aging’s effects, lift billions of people out of poverty, and an endless amount of other things is worth $25 million. Imagine the gulf oil spill being cleaned up over night; it could happen if we had digital matter/nanorobots now, but I guess it’s just not worth it to people to invest a few billion dollars in this tech, which would be not even 1% of the US/EU GDP.