Comments on: More investor interest http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=740 examining transformative technology Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: RobertBradbury http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=740#comment-1862 RobertBradbury Tue, 11 Sep 2001 04:44:29 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=740#comment-1862 <p><strong>Merrill Lynch is ill-informed</strong></p> <p>It would appear the Merrill Lynch report, coauthored by John Roy and Steven Milunovich, is somewhat ill-informed.</p> <p>They list as #5 under their "emerging markets",</p> <div class="c18"><strong>Futuristic:</strong> The long-term potential for nanotechnology, such as self-replicating nanorobots, is fasciinating but fantastical, and therefore beyond investors' interest.</div> <p>Gee, self-replicating nanoscale machines are "fantastical", wow! And yet, according to <a href="http://www.nanomedicine.com/">Nanomedicine</a>, pg 247, virtually every human has in their possession approximagely 40 trillion self-replicating semi-programmable nanoscale machines. They are more commonly known as bacteria. In an engineered form, they are capable of producing everything from the insulin taken by diabetics to the enzymes in our detergents. These are multi-billion dollar a year industries. I wonder what kind of markets are required to generate "investors' interest"?</p> Merrill Lynch is ill-informed

It would appear the Merrill Lynch report, coauthored by John Roy and Steven Milunovich, is somewhat ill-informed.

They list as #5 under their "emerging markets",

Futuristic: The long-term potential for nanotechnology, such as self-replicating nanorobots, is fasciinating but fantastical, and therefore beyond investors' interest.

Gee, self-replicating nanoscale machines are "fantastical", wow! And yet, according to Nanomedicine, pg 247, virtually every human has in their possession approximagely 40 trillion self-replicating semi-programmable nanoscale machines. They are more commonly known as bacteria. In an engineered form, they are capable of producing everything from the insulin taken by diabetics to the enzymes in our detergents. These are multi-billion dollar a year industries. I wonder what kind of markets are required to generate "investors' interest"?

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