Some "updates" on nanotech progress
Jim Logajan
There is progress being made, but it isn't easy to follow. Of direct
relevance to this group is this Wikipedia page as a start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanosynthesis
Also, I notice in the January issue of Life Extension magazine an article
by Robert Freitas Jr. that indicates a plan and a goal of manufacturing the
first medical nanorobots by the 2020s:
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2009/jan2009_Nanotechnology-Radically-
Extended-Life-Span_01.htm
Ahem A Rivet's Shot
> Also, I notice in the January issue of Life Extension magazine an article
> by Robert Freitas Jr. that indicates a plan and a goal of manufacturing
> the first medical nanorobots by the 2020s:
>
> http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2009/jan2009_Nanotechnology-Radically-
> Extended-Life-Span_01.htm
That is very interesting in particular the detail that Robert
Freitas Jr. has been doing a lot of work on tooltips for mechanosynthesis
and is now ready to move from simulation to reality. Not only is
nanomedicine moving closer with this work but also the nanofab.
I wonder just how much more of this sort of heads down working
through the hard bits is going on quietly in labs around the world - it is
for example hard to believe that IBM labs have done nothing significant
since things like the millipede (1024 AFM tips on a chip).
I will now stick my neck out and predict that the long period of
near silence will be followed by a sudden rush of products.
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