http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=4578 examining transformative technology Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=4578#comment-1031687 johnson Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:03:45 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=4578#comment-1031687 the statement is exactly true the statement is exactly true

]]> http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=4578#comment-1030196 NanoMan Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:54:04 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=4578#comment-1030196 Supposedly, Michio Kaku the physicist has been saying we will not have molecular assemblers until a century or so from now. I find this claim to be baseless because of the cutting edge developments we see pouring out of research labs. We have DNA nanomachines, we have advancing scanning probe microscopes, and computer circuit sizes already down to the nanometer level. Add to this the synthetic biology and genetic engineering, protein fold design stuff, and it appears assemblers are alot closer, more like around the 20teens to 2020s and 2030s range for more generic assembler/nanomachine structures; even "primitive" ones able to bond carbon atoms to form diamond like structures and buckytubes. Supposedly, Michio Kaku the physicist has been saying we will not have molecular assemblers until a century or so from now. I find this claim to be baseless because of the cutting edge developments we see pouring out of research labs. We have DNA nanomachines, we have advancing scanning probe microscopes, and computer circuit sizes already down to the nanometer level. Add to this the synthetic biology and genetic engineering, protein fold design stuff, and it appears assemblers are alot closer, more like around the 20teens to 2020s and 2030s range for more generic assembler/nanomachine structures; even “primitive” ones able to bond carbon atoms to form diamond like structures and buckytubes.

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