Nanotech: Not all its cracked up to be

Compatible with all types of yuppies and science n00bs, but not nanotech fanboys (it’ll break their little hearts). Remember that there are only two types of nanotechnology, strong and weak, and you’ll do just fine! Link for nanotech crtique: www.stardestroyer.net Link for drexlers response to smalley: www.imm.org And to hang the dubious molecular assembler concept with its own rope, even in the latest report, A Matter of Size: Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (put out in December 2006), no clear way forward toward molecular nanotechnology is seen, as per the conclusion on page 108: “Although theoretical calculations can be made today, the eventually attainable range of chemical reaction cycles, error rates, speed of operation, and thermodynamic efficiencies of such bottom-up manufacturing systems cannot be reliably predicted at this time. Thus, the eventually attainable perfection and complexity of manufactured products, while they can be calculated in theory, cannot be predicted with confidence.”

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