The Future of… Nanotechnology

The Future of…Nanotechnology

Is it SiFi or Reality?

The Star Trek Replicator.• physical object,• weapons • cup of Earl Grey tea.

Replicators are a very real they call it molecular manufacturing

Molecular Fabricator / Replicator • a technology based on the ability to build structures to complex,

atomic specifications by means of mechanosynthesis.• it would use tiny manipulators to position atoms and molecules to

build an object as complex as a desktop computer.

Potential Benefits Of Molecular Manufacturing•Medical uses: Molecular machine systems will be able to sense and

rearrange patterns of molecules in the human body.

• Environmental applications: possible to construct our products with zero chemical pollution, recycling leftover molecules.

•Raising sustainable living standards: able to cleanly and inexpensively produce high-quality products using common materials and solar energy.

• Low cost to access to space: The strong, lightweight materials enabled by molecular manufacturing will greatly lower the cost of access to space and space resources, making their active use affordable for the first time.

Potential negative effects of molecular manufacturing.

•Accidents: Any powerful technology—from fire to biotech

• Economic disruption: finding qualified technicians and engineers.

• Lack of access: too expensive for many to benefit.

•Deliberate abuse/terrorism:) most serious are…

(1)very rapid construction of conventional weapons, (2) totalitarian control of civilian populations by surveillance using nanos-cale sensors, (3) new weapons made possible by the technology, which can be thought of as "smart" chemical weapons.

Investing in Our Future

The Beginning…….

Richard Feynman -- Speech 1959.

“There's Plenty Of Room At The Bottom”

• manipulating and controlling things on a small scale.

• What ..if we could really arrange the atoms the way we want them?

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1965 was awarded jointly to Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger and Richard P. Feynman "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles".

American Engineer Eric Drexler -- 1970

• Founder of the Foresight Institute..• Popularized the potential of “ Molecular Nanotechnology”..• Discovered that molecular machines could control the chemical

manufacturing of complex product as well as additional systems.

Dexter says:• “Nanotechnology isn’t

about miniaturizing machines, but about extending precise control of molecular structures to a larger scale.”• “It about making precise

things big.”

Dexter In The 80s - 90s• worked on developing a way to maintain extremely high-performance

machines out of molecular carbon lattice.• engaging in policy activism to raise awareness of the implication of

the technology.

Bill Clinton-National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)• Chose not to focused on molecular manufacturing.• Focused on Nanotechnology on the scale of 1 and 100

nanometers with novel properties.This funding launched the encompassed cutting-edge semiconductor research as well as several families of chemistry, and advances in materials.

What the Critics say..

•Devour our biosphere.•Embark on the global ecological system integrating all living things being and their relationships.•Potential ecological and health consequences.

__________________________________________________• Fearing that this claim may threaten funding for

nanotechnology, researchers reacted by increasing their distance from molecular manufacturing by claiming themselves that such things were impossible and unscientific.

Bill Joy- “Why The Future Doesn’t Need Us”• ..our most powerful 21st-centry technologies-

robots, genetics engineering and nanotech- are threating to make humans an endangered species.

A Mormon Moment •We are nano-gods•And God said, “Let us make man in our image…”•Creatio ex Materia- (creation out of some pre-existent, eternal matter)

Lorenzo Snow“As man now is, God once was; as God is now man

may be.”

The Future Holds no limitsThrough nanotechnology and molecule manufacturing there is no limit to what man can do in the next hundred, thousand or million years.. Now its changing matter on the nano-scale next it will be creating a new world.