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The basis for such a personal fabricator - the '''atomically precise manufacturing (APM) technology''' - is beginning to be figured out today. | The basis for such a personal fabricator - the '''atomically precise manufacturing (APM) technology''' - is beginning to be figured out today. | ||
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| − | + | First off: Let's get the major obstacles out of the way. | |
| − | + | * There are no "nanobots" here! Check the info page "[[Prime distractions]]". | |
| − | * | + | * Macroscale style machinery at the nanoscale.<br> It's well known, that there are several severe concerns regarding this idea. And for very good reasons.<br> Less known is, that all of those major concerns have been considered in quite some detail with rather surprising results. Check out the [[Macroscale style machinery at the nanoscale|main article]] discussing the concerns. |
| − | * | + | * This is NOT about becoming able to make every structure that is permitted by physical law. Quite the contrary actually. It's even encoded in the (here used) name "gem-gum-tec" within the "gem" and "gum" parts. For details see: [[The defining traits of gem-gum-tec]]. |
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APM is basically the capability of manufacturing products such that the atoms they are constituted of link (bind) to each other in "exactly" the way one desires them to. Since "absolute exactness" in other words "making no errors ever" is a fundamental physical impossibility one just aims for extremely low error rates. On the long run error rates comparable to the bit-error-rates one can find in todays digital data processing systems. | APM is basically the capability of manufacturing products such that the atoms they are constituted of link (bind) to each other in "exactly" the way one desires them to. Since "absolute exactness" in other words "making no errors ever" is a fundamental physical impossibility one just aims for extremely low error rates. On the long run error rates comparable to the bit-error-rates one can find in todays digital data processing systems. | ||
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| + | = APM in the near term and APM in the far term = | ||
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| + | * On this wiki "atomically precise manufacturing" (or APM) will be interpreted in a wider sense. Including both earlier precursor systems in the near term and the targeted later systems in the far term. | ||
| + | * On this wiki the shorthand '''"gem-gum technology"''' will be used to refer to the '''far term target'''.<br><small>''A technically accurate description of the far term target technology would be:<br>"atomically resolving gemstone based metamaterial manufacturing and technology"''</small> | ||
| + | For more details see the main article:<br> | ||
| + | [[Near term and far term]]. | ||
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| + | = Take a tour = | ||
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| + | * Take a guided tour: [[Guided tour|'''START''']] (work in progress) | ||
= Links = | = Links = | ||
Revision as of 12:46, 14 July 2018
| Language: en | Sprache: de |
- Intro: Here is a detailed introduction to atomically precise manufacturing as a whole.
- The DAPMAT demo project
The far term target
 A personal desktop gem-gum factory fabblet with dynamically deployed protective hood. |
The personal gem gum factory is:
The personal gem gum factory makes:
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The existence of a personal fabricator will have profound impact human society on a global scale. The basis for such a personal fabricator - the atomically precise manufacturing (APM) technology - is beginning to be figured out today.
Dodge the trapdoors
First off: Let's get the major obstacles out of the way.
- There are no "nanobots" here! Check the info page "Prime distractions".
- Macroscale style machinery at the nanoscale.
It's well known, that there are several severe concerns regarding this idea. And for very good reasons.
Less known is, that all of those major concerns have been considered in quite some detail with rather surprising results. Check out the main article discussing the concerns. - This is NOT about becoming able to make every structure that is permitted by physical law. Quite the contrary actually. It's even encoded in the (here used) name "gem-gum-tec" within the "gem" and "gum" parts. For details see: The defining traits of gem-gum-tec.
What APM is not
While early APM may have overlap with these areas the far term goals are very different.
- soft nanomachines, molecular biology, synthetic biology – Main article: "Brownian technology path"
What APM actually is
APM is basically the capability of manufacturing products such that the atoms they are constituted of link (bind) to each other in "exactly" the way one desires them to. Since "absolute exactness" in other words "making no errors ever" is a fundamental physical impossibility one just aims for extremely low error rates. On the long run error rates comparable to the bit-error-rates one can find in todays digital data processing systems.
APM in the near term and APM in the far term
- On this wiki "atomically precise manufacturing" (or APM) will be interpreted in a wider sense. Including both earlier precursor systems in the near term and the targeted later systems in the far term.
- On this wiki the shorthand "gem-gum technology" will be used to refer to the far term target.
A technically accurate description of the far term target technology would be:
"atomically resolving gemstone based metamaterial manufacturing and technology"
For more details see the main article:
Near term and far term.
Take a tour
- Take a guided tour: START (work in progress)
Links
Webpages
- Forum
- Foresight Institute: Nanotechnology
- Disquisition 2013 "Nano-solutions for the 21st century: Unleashing the fourth technological revolution"
- Zyvex's definition of APM
- Other sites
Brief introduction videos
- Nanotube TV (von Nanotechnology Industries) (2016-10)
- Nanotechnology: the big picture with Dr Eric Drexler and Dr Sonia Trigueros (2016-01-28)
- Transforming the Material Basis of Civilization | Eric Drexler | TEDxISTAlameda (2015-11-16)
- Chris Phoenix on Molecular Manufacturing (2014-09?) (alternative 2)(alternative1) Nanotechnologist (older dead link)
- Dr Eric Drexler - Remaking the 21st Century (2014-01-23) long! 1h 14min
- Video of oxford talk (2014-01-22): Eric K. Drexler speaks about his new book "Radical Abundance"
- John Randall: "Atomically Precise Manufacturing" at Foresight Technical Conference 2013
Illuminating Atomic Precision: Foresight Technical Conference January 2013 - Fully Printed (2010-06) - Note: Diamondoid nanofactories will look and work differently and won't produce food.
- Ralph Merkle - An introduction to Molecular Nanotechnology (2009-11)
- presentation by Phillip Moriarty (2009-09):
SENS4 - Molecular Nanotechnology in the Real World: How Feasible is a Nanofactory?
(1/4) - (2/4) - (3/4) - (4/4) - Nottingham Nanotechnology debate (2005-08-24):
(recording of the whole debate)
Unfortunately videos got deleted :(
(1/7) - (2/7) - (3/7) - (4/7) - (5/7) - (6/7) - (7/7) -- repaired links (7/7)
- BBC Horizon Nanoutopia (1995)(broken link#2) (older broken link) - Note: The term "nanotechnology" turned out to be to unspecific and the assembler concept is now superseded by the nanofactory concept. The complexity of a nanofactory will be akin to modern day computer chips.
Locally hosted files
- Slides from the talk the apm-wiki site admin gave at the austrian "linuxwochen" event: slides-pdf-file
