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What do you guys think about this great new field of science? I recently read (in a magazine that I cannot find a link to) that nanobots will one day be capable of just about everything medical, from diagnosing symptoms to fighting obesity to defeating cancer to keeping our bodies in a state of perpetual youth. Now I don't know about you, but all of this stuff sounds pretty darn cool. Perpetual youth? Count me in! Also, this may allow society to pretty much bypass a large part of stem cells as medicine, severely reducing the controversy over that. Nanotechnology may also one day form the backbone of maintenance. For example, is that car bumper starting to rust over? Don't worry - just apply some nanobots, and after a quick chemical change, the nanobots have returned the bumper to its original illustrious state.

it can be used not only for medicine, but allso for war. allthow i can't think up a use in warfere, i'm sure they will find it.

i don't think that nano-techwill be created so soon, but it's just a question of when.

Nanotechnology is definately the big breakthrough and advancement of the 21st Century.

Take a look at your computer. It's big, bulky and it's hard to move it from place to place. It's about 8 inches wide, 15 inches tall and 18 inches long, probably weghting in between 10-20 pounds. Not a very portable device to the everyday person. If you open it, you will notice that most of the volume inside of the box is primarily composed of air.
This means that without any major changes, we can reduce the size to about half of it's current state.

Let's start taking out hardware. CD's are starting to become obsolete, the USB Pendrive is going to be the new CD of the future. We just took out the 2 average CD-Drivers that most computers have, which is probably a fifth of the space a computer has.

Now let's put Nanotechnology into the picture. You now that a computer is composed of integrated circuits on silicon chips. You see all those dots, lines and transistors on the chip. But, you do notice something, there is space between them. Imagine if all that space could be reduced to just microns.

So in essense, you'd end up with a much smaller and portable device that does the same as your desktop computer.

Nanotechnology exists..

It's just not at the level you're thinking of.

It could be placed in a bullet, and when it enters the targets body it starts to do something bad. But that isn't likely. It will probably be some sort of intelligence use.

Bullet w/ high voltage electricity FTW!

Mechanical Locusts FTW!

Nanotechnology could do a lot that nothing else can. I'm worried about the 'eternal youth' factor, though. Overpopulation? Or would it be very expensive?

That's what she said.



Taser gun...

Anyway, how could the keep us in perpetual youth? Cells divide a limited number of tiems before they run out of cytoplasm. Once they can't divide they die off, nanomachines can't keep them alive.

OOHH WONED!

It's a longer distance tazer gun (think, sniper)

I think it's awsome. Finding new things about what we live in and where we are. And the expansion of new planets and stuff. Just the stuff about bugs on my skin 24/7 scares me but it's all good .

Nanotechnology won't get that far for a really, really long time. Think of your great-great-great-great-great-great....-great-great grandchildren.

Not really. Scientists think that Nanotechnology will get it's big boost at around 2020.
Right now, it's just theories and very basic engineering in it's field.

To the person who mentioned nanotechnology weapons-- Think nanotech "diseases", nanites would be released which could become airborne, and enter any host, where they would then wreak havoc. (Yes, I got this idea from the game Deus Ex, sue me.)

Well ge toff your butt and DIY. Get conductive rope, very long, a sniper rifle, and a regular taser gun. Oh, and the handy man's secret weapon; duct tape.

Take the firing pin and long smooth cannon off the sniper rifle, and the chamber off the taser gun. Modify the taser so it fits in the tube of the sniper rifle, and replace the original coil with long conductive rope.

Juice up the power. Get scope.



Scientist also envisioned wide spread space colonization in the early 21st century.

LASERS FTW

And syphon, some thought by the 90's there'd be moon colonies.

We're still in the early 21st Century. Technically, early 21st Century ends on 2033, mid on 2066 and late on 2099.

Thus proving my point

Where's my flying car dammit!?

Anyway, about the use in war...

if this is going the way i think it is...can't nanobots get so advanced they'll use their own tools and fuse crap together? So, can't they fuse themselves together? So if you have a big enough supply of metal and a nano-bot-maker...can't you just turn any metal into some sort of vehicle/tank/building within seconds if each nanobot knows exactly where it's going and what part it would play into the item?

Play total annihilation, so what if the idea's from a video game, I think it might be possible.

i'm a bit sceptic about this idea. what a tank needs besides what "tiny building blocks" don't have:

1.chemical things like gunpowder, fuel & some more
2.armour - those nano robots gotto have armour to form armor that can resist a shot
3.processors & other electronic stuff

ok, maybe you will make some nano-robots for armour, some for electronics, some for chemical reactions & all they together will form a tank, but isn't building a tank with old-fassioned methods 10000 times cheaper ? belive me, the military are very conservative (& english military are extremly conservative). & they don't rush to make 1 very expensive weapon. they rather build 1000 cheaper ones.

Its also going to be mad expensive.

I'll build one soon. I'm an inventor expect one by 2020.

Enginering and mechanics will be taken by nanobots. They would be able to build a tank out of scrap metal faster than a man.

The perpetual youth stuff... if cytoplasm can come out, I'm sure it can be injected again. I'm sure the scientists have a good idea of what the nanobots will be capable of (even just with theories and speculation), or else they wouldn't have made those claims. Who knows? Nanobots may even be cell factories.

Ya, but where would the cytoplasm come from?

And this perpetual youth is only going to end in widespread cancer problems, the more cells you have the more chance you have for them to mutate.

I am so sick of people and there theories... At least when I come up with a theory I test it/try to test it.

Well yeah, but it might come to the point where money really doesn't matter. Ya never know. Or they could just do it 'slower' but still with miniaturization and newer technology to make it easier and faster..