bacteria building nanobots

From: defiant_whispers (defiant_whispers_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/06/04

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    I am a student hoping to start a career in the sci-fi book field. I
    am currently doing research for a novel that I plan to write involving
    nanotechnology. I have heard it said that nanobots are a long way
    away from being developed and that genetically modified bacteria
    (meant to do a specific job) will really be considered our first
    "nanobots." I was wondering, that if this is true, than couldn't
    these bacteria be geneitcally programmed to build actuall nanobots
    from available material in a certain invironment... like say... the
    human body? Since nanobots would need to be built with chemicals at a
    molecular level anyway, it wouldn't really matter that something
    organic was building something that could be considered synthetic...
    would it? This would also solve the problem of needing nanofactories
    to build nanobots. The bacteria would be able to do it. If it is
    found that building something as complex as a nanobot would be too
    much to ask of one bac
    teria (or would that be bacterium?) than couldn't you just program
    many bacteria to do many different jobs... sort of making an assembly
    line for nanobots?
    Those are all the questions I have. Thank you for your time.
    - Brian Smith

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