Nanotechnology
Let me say it right now. Everything you thought was the limit of human kind is wrong. The strongest weapon is not the nuclear bomb. The strongest material is not steel. Your brain is not the fastest computer on the earth. The sky is not the limit. Humanity has not reached it full potential. How can I make these statements? I am informed. There is a revolution coming, it may be bloody, but more than likely it will not be. There will be casualties, maybe not human ones. This is not a military revolution; this is a revolution in every aspect of life as we know it. It will make the Industrial revolution look like a stumbling block in our history. This revolution has already begun, and hopefully when you?re done with this paper you will be prepared for it. If you?re not then you can be surprised by it like everyone else. Nanotechnology has begun to emerge and it will forever change your life. The only question is how. Starting basically, nanotechnology is an anticipated manufacturing technology giving thorough, inexpensive control of the structure of matter. The term has sometimes been used to refer to any technique able to work at a submicron scale. Nanotechnology will enable the construction of giga-opperational computers smalle
All of this technology is breathtaking and astounding. It fill eventually pass itno reality and become part of our everyday lives. The only uncertanty is when. Some projections estimate that nanotechnology, as I have describied it above, will come about within the next twenty years. Other less optomistic sources put it somewhere into the next fifty years. All that be done until then is to prepare for it?s coming. What I have described above is only a small potential of what nanotechnology can do. I have also neglected to delve into the potential for nanotechnology to be used for ill. Unfortunate as it may seem, many of humanities greates discoveries have come out of developments for wars. The possibility that the first nanotechnology break through may come from developments of a wartime research program is probably not likely in our time. It is certainly possible that such discoveries could be made in current peace time defensive research programs. How or when such discoveries come is, in the end, actually quite irrelevant. Nanotechnology will come, and it will revolutionize our lives. It will be the worlds next ?Industrial Revolution.? Will you be ready for it? Thus far I have discussed assemblers as having to do mostly with the biological. Now let me take this to the non-biological. Drexler?s assemblers primary function is in the non-biological. Being as the assemblers themselves are nanoscopic robots they have to have thousand upon millions upon millions of themselves to be able to build anything at a very fast rate. If you wanted to build a one-carat diamond it would take a single assembler thirty-two million years to build. Now if that robot could build copies of itself the robot would have enough copies after fourteen hours to be able to build a one-carat diamond in just under one million years. If the copies mad copies of themselves, then after fourteen hours there would be enough robots to build the one-carat diamond in just under a second! This little example brings into an important concept in nanotechnology, self-replication. Self-replication allows the nanorobots to construct virtually any structure in record time. Now what if you have had a huge building in your way before you could build anything? The nanorobots could be programmed to self-replicate using the buildi
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