Re: What practical uses is nanotechnology achieving now?

From: Kadamose (Kada_at_myway.com)
Date: 08/13/04 

Date: 13 Aug 2004 16:21:10 GMT

On 13 Aug 2004 06:12:36 GMT, Jim Logajan <JamesL@lugoj.com> wrote:

>
>Jim Logajan <JamesL@lugoj.com> wrote:
>> mdane@h2001.net (Mabon Dane) wrote:
>>> Can anyone list all the current practical uses of nanotechnology? I am
>>> not talking about possibilities but what is the common uses that
>>> nanotechnology is being put to use at this moment in time.
>>
>> Here's my list for molecular (a.k.a. machine phase) nanotechnology:
>
>Sorry folks - I'm currently solo moderating the group and if this had been
>posted by anyone else I'd have been inclined to reject it as being a witty
>one-liner. My apologies.
>
>Obviously the answer to Mabon's question depends on the definition being
>used for nanotechnology. If the definition used is that which was in use
>for the term when this newsgroup was first created in 1988 then the list
>is, so far as I know, entirely empty.

Definitely, entirely empty. Our computer chips and ICs are be being
built at the 32 nm scale (Drexler agrees that this is definitely
Nanotech) but I disagree...though the previous microtechnology may
have finally reached the nanometer scale...it's still microtechnology
and what is known as 'bulk technology' at its core. These current
technologies (at least, the ones the public are able to know about) in
no way fulfill the promises of MNT, and therefore, should be
prohibited from being classified as Nanotech.

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