Starting to sound like Deus Ex.

Nanotechnology seems to be on the verge of becoming the world's X-factor.

ehhh another technology junkie gal here

btw anyone wud define exactly wat nanotechnology is

Originally posted by cool
ehhh another technology junkie gal here

btw anyone wud define exactly wat nanotechnology is

Well, I suppose you know what technology is, and nano is a prefix meaning one billionth. So it's technology on a very small scale. It will allow us to create materials from building blocks the size of a virus, which will come into use in metal, chemical and plastic industries.

And nanoscopic machines can have a whole range of uses in the future, many of which we probably aren't even aware of today. There are speculations for example of having small radio-controlled nanobots that can enter your bloodstream, transporting medicin or even doing internal surgery. In any case, the electronic industry will certainly take a huge leap.

I also believe there will be many not so good uses for nanotechnology, like in the development of new weapon technology and control-devices. Spying nanobots might be crawling all around us in a not so distant future.

to me the most exciting thing in nanotechnology is possibility of production of something what we can name "cloaking device"...US army will put nanotechnology in armor camouflage - it will work something like cameleon - some devices will check the colour of enviroment to change colours if they would be different from natural enviroment.But after all we can always dream about something like predator's cloaking device!!! It could be really amazing!!! But I'm not sure if we can get so impressive effect by using nanotechnology..

Its an interesting topic the old nanotechnology. At the university I am hoping to get into, they have a nanotechnology lab or something, so I hope to be able to help on that project.

Originally posted by cool
ehhh another technology junkie gal here

btw anyone wud define exactly wat nanotechnology is

Basically using atoms as the building blocks for machines rather like bricks in a house.

Originally posted by mad scientist

Originally posted by cool
ehhh another technology junkie gal here

btw anyone wud define exactly wat nanotechnology is

Basically using atoms as the building blocks for machines rather like bricks in a house.

Arent bricks made from atoms too?