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Small but parallel to the funding growth of "nanotechnology" APM was further advertised in the book "Engines of Creation". | Small but parallel to the funding growth of "nanotechnology" APM was further advertised in the book "Engines of Creation". | ||
To be sensationalistic scifi literature writers picked the most dystopic ideas out of there left the rest behind and packed everyting under the "nanotechnology" label. | To be sensationalistic scifi literature writers picked the most dystopic ideas out of there left the rest behind and packed everyting under the "nanotechnology" label. | ||
| − | The mental image of "nanotechnology" that spread in the non scientific but interested US public (a very flawed one) was about swarms of with high potential uncontrollable and unstoppable life-like nanobugs eating anything and everything | + | The mental image of "nanotechnology" that spread in the non scientific but interested US public (a very flawed one) was about swarms of with high potential uncontrollable and unstoppable life-like nanobugs eating anything and everything untill nothing is left. |
Some material scienists working under the banner "nanotechnology" began to see themselve associated with this as very dangerous percieved goal when what they actually did was absolutely unrelated. This in combination with fundamental conceptual differences between biological systems and artificial advanded APM systems may be the reason why some highly recognized scientific minds initially put heavy criticism on the ideas of APM. | Some material scienists working under the banner "nanotechnology" began to see themselve associated with this as very dangerous percieved goal when what they actually did was absolutely unrelated. This in combination with fundamental conceptual differences between biological systems and artificial advanded APM systems may be the reason why some highly recognized scientific minds initially put heavy criticism on the ideas of APM. | ||
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This whole story was presented in the book "Radical Abundance". It concludes this episode with that | This whole story was presented in the book "Radical Abundance". It concludes this episode with that | ||
now with the emergence systematic polypeptide design and structural DNA nanotechology the first steps of the "inverse route" in molecular sciences to less biological and more predictable systems are done. | now with the emergence systematic polypeptide design and structural DNA nanotechology the first steps of the "inverse route" in molecular sciences to less biological and more predictable systems are done. | ||
| − | And that we need some further steps in this bottom up direction until we can tie it together with the top | + | And that we need some further steps in this bottom up direction until we can tie it together with the top down tools of material scientists. |
Revision as of 21:42, 30 November 2013
In a nutshell
Sketched ideas about artificial atomically precise technology where first introduced to a wider public in Richard Feynman's famous talk "There is Plenty of Room at the Bottom". Back then the idea was simply called "nanotechnology".
The technologies potential was well percieved and lead to heavy funding of everything claming to be "nanotechnology" in the US. Since at this point in time atomically precise material science was still quite far out of reach all things smaller than a micron where called nanotechnology. This mainly included non atomically precise nanoparticles and other structures with the atoms statistically distributed. Those structures can not by definition (non AP) play a central role in the archivement of APM.
Other parts of the world followed with the funding of "nanotechnology" without ever publicly percieving the original idea of atomic precesicion. The place where atomic precesision was already archieved at this time where the well established molecular sciences. People involved in those saw little incentive to switch their work under the banner of "nanotechnology". Also they where heavily focused in the scientific study of organic chemistry and bioloical systems. Taking the inverse rout to engineer molecular systems for non biological applications was not on their scedule.
Small but parallel to the funding growth of "nanotechnology" APM was further advertised in the book "Engines of Creation". To be sensationalistic scifi literature writers picked the most dystopic ideas out of there left the rest behind and packed everyting under the "nanotechnology" label. The mental image of "nanotechnology" that spread in the non scientific but interested US public (a very flawed one) was about swarms of with high potential uncontrollable and unstoppable life-like nanobugs eating anything and everything untill nothing is left.
Some material scienists working under the banner "nanotechnology" began to see themselve associated with this as very dangerous percieved goal when what they actually did was absolutely unrelated. This in combination with fundamental conceptual differences between biological systems and artificial advanded APM systems may be the reason why some highly recognized scientific minds initially put heavy criticism on the ideas of APM. This criticism at least made the spots that needed to be analysed in further detail (tooltip chemistry) more visible. This analysis has been done for technology level III with very promising results.
This whole story was presented in the book "Radical Abundance". It concludes this episode with that now with the emergence systematic polypeptide design and structural DNA nanotechology the first steps of the "inverse route" in molecular sciences to less biological and more predictable systems are done. And that we need some further steps in this bottom up direction until we can tie it together with the top down tools of material scientists.
