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It gets worse when you have a whole bunch of them on a bandwagon since how could so many smart people be wrong? The answer is: because they all think that.
> We don’t even have micromachines. Mechanical objects on microscales do not exist. Huh? Aren’t micromirror devices made of millions of microscale mechanical objects? The first DMD page that came up for me is a TI DLP4500, which has about an 11mm diagonal and is about 1000 mirrors wide, putting the individual mirrors, and their tiny hinges at around 10 microns. What definition of “microscale” is the author using? Edi…
The human that wrote this is actually a enormous assemblage of nanorobotics albeit of the carbon variety.
We are grey goo, and are currently working to build rockets to go out and continue converting the entire solar system and eventually the universe into grey goo.
Modern nanotechnology is a multi disciplinary approach using effects on the nanoscale for new technologies. Therefore people from different fields come together to synthesis, simulate, analyse etc. nanoparticles/systems. Of course in the media nanotechnology is this big catch all word, where everybody immediately thinks about self replicating nanomachines - this is still fiction. Eventhough nanotechnology has not ful…
Not my field at all but I read this piece and an interview with him [0]. I don't know, this guy comes across as an arrogant asshole to me. I struggled to finish the interview. [0] https://niccolo.substack.com/p/the-troms-interviews-scott-lo...
What's the best nanotech achievement so far, though?
But it's not a science work at all.
(And then, this article seems to be outdated on all specific complaints.)
The human that wrote this is actually a enormous assemblage of nanorobotics albeit of the carbon variety.
That’s one of the more powerful counterarguments against “Drexlerism.” Nanotech already exists. It’s called biology and it has already spent a billion years exploring the combinatorial space of what molecular machinery can do. Indeed it has evolved a lot of very exotic molecular machines that do seem to take advantage of quantum effects in various ways. We are grey goo, and are currently working to build rockets to g…
Modern nanotechnology is a multi disciplinary approach using effects on the nanoscale for new technologies. Therefore people from different fields come together to synthesis, simulate, analyse etc. nanoparticles/systems. Of course in the media nanotechnology is this big catch all word, where everybody immediately thinks about self replicating nanomachines - this is still fiction. Eventhough nanotechnology has not ful…
I think the argument is that the parts that work are just rebranding of chemistry, physics, and materials engineering.
> We don’t even have micromachines. Mechanical objects on microscales do not exist. Huh? Aren’t micromirror devices made of millions of microscale mechanical objects? The first DMD page that came up for me is a TI DLP4500, which has about an 11mm diagonal and is about 1000 mirrors wide, putting the individual mirrors, and their tiny hinges at around 10 microns. What definition of “microscale” is the author using? Edi…
Yes, this is a weird argument and unnecessary for the main target of the article. There were plenty of successful microactuators, sensors, full microrobots, etc even when this article was written (2010).