Ever hear of Nano Technology?

Nano technology is a relatively new scientific development which is destined to completely change the world we live in. I found the following description of Nano science on the  Laboratory for Nanotechnology at Clemson University's web page.

"Nano -sciences are studies concerned with phenomena that are unique to the nanoscale (1/1,000,000,000 ^th of a meter).  As Prof. R. Siegel of RPI says "think of it like this; take a crystal of some material and cut it in half.  If you measure the properties of the two halves, conductivity, heat capacity, optical absorption , or what ever, you get the same values that you got before you cut the material.  Now repeat this over and over until at some point the very, very small halves no long give the same values as the large piece you started with."  This unusual thing that happens to materials generally happens around the nanoscale . The example of such nanoscale phenomena is the single-walled carbon nanotube with a yield strength of 100 times that of steel and the ability to carry 1000 times the current of an equivalent Cu wire.  What is more, the very fact that nanotubes are carbon rolled into a tube has to do with the properties of a carbon lattice at this scale.  Thus, these materials can  achieve unusual atomic perfection that gives unexpected properties and that can be used to build the technology of tomorrow."

"Nanotechnology is the engineering of devices, materials, or machines at nanoscales based on the unusual properties of systems at that scale."

You say, "So what, that sounds  pretty boring to me."

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Ever watch Star Trek? Researchers believe we will have the "replicator" technology currently used on television shows such as Star Trek within the next 100 years. This is actually pretty conservative. I have read some articles stating we should have the technology developed to that level within the next 40 to 60 years.

Once the Nano computers are developed, all you need is software.

What are the implications?

No more hunger...Nano technology can create whatever food we desire.

There would no longer be a need for manual labor, let the Nano robots do all of the work. 

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