Re: Life as Nano


On a dark an dismal Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:00:14 -0000, in flickering
lamplight jodawi@xxxxxxxxx scribed with phoenix quill:

>
>Here's a claim:
>
>"Too many stories treat nanotechnology as magic, where little bots can
>do anything at all with seemingly unlimited constraints. This ignores
>the fact that nanotechnology already exists and is quite constrained:
>it's called life. If you don't see living things doing something like
>what you want your nanobots doing, and doing it as quickly as you want
>your nanobots doing it, then you're probably misunderstanding how
>powerful your nanobots can be."
>
>How true or false? Any better-worded similar sentiments out there on
>the net?

Nanotech will enable abilities that don't exist in nature, so this is
too sweeping for my liking.
>Too many stories treat nanotechnology as magic
This is just normal, you can see what i mean if you remove the 'nano'
part.
If Life, aka Biology, is a subset of nanotechnology as i think it is,
then this claim has a myopic view of the potential of nanotech.
Just because Life uses it does not make that all it can do.
And it's not just [bleep] nanites!



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