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Originally Posted by Zeitgeist  Arkansas News Bureau - Nanotechnology breakthroughs on the horizon
From reading this article I cant help but feel that the future of nanotechnology does seem like an interesting one, but then again, in all realism, are people confusing science with science fiction? There is only so much which is medically and scientifically possible, personally I think these things are just false hopes. The idea of robots in my blood stream sounds toxic to me.
How would you feel if a hostile government had access to nanotechnology? Invisible spying machines and killer-nano-robots? Im not one who is scared of scientific advancement, I dont fear the person who has all of the nuclear weapons but the person who only wants one. Looking at our history the greatest advancements have been in warfare, humans could say "weapons r us." I think if anything the development of nanotechnology is not something, in my opinion, which we should currently be tampering with. We have not reached a point culturally where such technology would not be developed to be abused. Im all for a medical advancements, but I certainly would not want to fire off an EMP every day to stop a short circuiting nano-robot plague.
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Nano-machinery and nanotechnology are not the same. Nanotech is a huge field which involves quite a bit more than building small robots (which we're nowhere near doing).
Nanotech is responsible for things like more effective cancer drugs, bone replacements that mimic real bone better than titanium rods, better optics, potentially more efficient solar cells, fuel cells, catalysts, etc.
You're looking at it like a Popular Science reader + 100 years of hype, imagination, and a bit of tin-foil hat syndrome.