Did Nanotechnology product will survive in the market?
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device structures used to build transistors or circuit elements that are smaller than 100 nanometers (nm) in size.\n\nA good size comparison is a virus, the smallest of microorganisms. But some layers of material that make up a transistor are even thinner than viruses; so an atom comes in handy as a measuring stick. For example, the transistor gate oxide, an insulating material, consists of about five atomic layers that add up to little more than one nanometer in thickness.\n\nSo what does all this have to do with the future of silicon?\n\nIn the past, industry experience seemed to indicate there is a very definite limit to the number components that can be fabricated onto a semiconductor wafer. Maybe that's true, with traditional methods. But as we get deeper into the realm of nanotechnology, materials and process recipes are changing. As these factors change, so do the limitations that the industry used to consider absolute. The world of nanotechnology recognizes that silicon as a semiconductor material is still extremely effective.\n\n\nAs research into nanotechnology continues to provide useful new materials or devices, it will be much more practical to commercialize these innovations by integrating them into silicon-based technology that has a massive existing infrastructure, rather than by trying to create an entirely new infrastructure.\n\nNanotechnology is slowly creeping into popular culture, but not in a way that most scientists will like. There is a great example in Dorian - novelist Will Self's modern reworking of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. In one scene, set in a dingy industrial building on the outskirts of Los Angeles, we find Dorian Gray and his friends looking across rows of Dewar flasks, in which the heads and bodies of the dead are kept frozen, waiting for the day when medical science has advanced far enough to cure their ailments. Although one of Dorian's friends doubts that technology will ever be able to repair the damage caused when the body parts are thawed out, another friend - Fergus the Ferret - is more optimistic. \n\n- Nanotechnology, Fergus - you're quite right; they'll have tiny hyperintelligent robots working in concert to repair our damaged bodies. \n\nThis view that nanotechnology will lead to tiny robotic submarines navigating our bloodstream is ubiquitous. Yet today's products of nanotechnology are much more mundane - stain-resistant trousers, better sun creams and tennis rackets reinforced with carbon nanotubes. There is an almost surreal gap between what the technology is believed to promise and what it actually delivers.
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please be very specific of what business\n\nmanufacturing industries have no future
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Manufactured products are made from atoms. The properties of those products depend on how those atoms are arranged. If we rearrange the atoms in coal we can make diamond. If we rearrange the atoms in sand (and add a few other trace elements) we can make computer chips. If we rearrange the atoms in dirt, water and air we can make potatoes. \nTodays manufacturing methods are very crude at the molecular level. Casting, grinding, milling and even lithography move atoms in great thundering statistical herds. It's like trying to make things out of LEGO blocks with boxing gloves on your hands. Yes, you can push the LEGO blocks into great heaps and pile them up, but you can't really snap them together the way you'd like. \nIn the future, nanotechnology will let us take off the boxing gloves. We'll be able to snap together the fundamental building blocks of nature easily, inexpensively and in most of the ways permitted by the laws of physics. This will be essential if we are to continue the revolution in computer hardware beyond about the next decade, and will also let us fabricate an entire new generation of products that are cleaner, stronger, lighter, and more precise. \nIt's worth pointing out that the word "nanotechnology" has become very popular and is used to describe many types of research where the characteristic dimensions are less than about 1,000 nanometers. For example, continued improvements in lithography have resulted in line widths that are less than one micron: this work is often called "nanotechnology." Sub-micron lithography is clearly very valuable (ask anyone who uses a computer!) but it is equally clear that conventional lithography will not let us build semiconductor devices in which individual dopant atoms are located at specific lattice sites. Many of the exponentially improving trends in computer hardware capability have remained steady for the last 50 years. There is fairly widespread belief that these trends are likely to continue for at least another several years, but then conventional lithography starts to reach its limits. \nThere is also Cold Fusion which holds the promise of easily available low cost energy.  For example buying a car or house which comes with its forever energy.  More can be found at the Cold Fusion Journal http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/
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still waiting on it, but personally i think the next invention ( be it what ever it may be ) will further insulate society from one another like the current state of connectivity does right now. interesting isn't he, he we are on this board posting replies, when we could be outside... connecting.. with people.. and not text..
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Molecular nanotechnology ("MNT") is an anticipated manufacturing technology that would allow precise control and positional assembly of molecule-sized building blocks through the use of nano-scale manipulator arms. Molecular nanotechnology is usually considered distinct from the more inclusive term "nanotechnology", which is now used to refer to a wide range of scientific or technological projects that focus on phenomena or properties of the nanometer scale (around 0.1-100nm). Nanotechnology is already a blossoming field, but molecular nanotechnology - the goal of productive, molecular-scale machine systems - is still in the preliminary research stage.\n\nNanotechnology was first introduced in 1959, in a talk by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom". Feynman proposed using a set of conventional-sized robot arms to construct a replica of themselves, but one-tenth the original size, then using that new set of arms to manufacture an even smaller set, and so on, until the molecular scale is reached. If we had many millions or billions of such molecular-scale arms, we could program them to work together to create macro-scale products built from individual molecules - a "bottom-up manufacturing" technique, as opposed to the usual technique of cutting away material until you have a completed component or product - "top-down manufacturing".\n\nFeynman's idea remained largely undiscussed until the mid-80s, when the MIT-educated engineer K. Eric Drexler published "Engines of Creation", a book to popularize the potential of molecular nanotechnology. Because MNT would allow manufacturers to fabricate products from the bottom up with precise molecular control, a very wide range of chemically possible structures could be created. Since MNT systems could put every molecule in its specific place, molecular manufacturing processes could be very clean and efficient. Also, because every little bit of matter in an molecular nanotechnology system would be part of a nano-scale manipulator, nanotechnological systems could be far more productive and maintain much higher throughputs than modern manufacturing techniques, which use macro-scale manipulators to fabricate products.\n\nTo initiate an MNT revolution would require an "assembler" - a reprogrammable nano-scale manipulator capable of creating a wide range of molecular structures, including a complete copy of itself. The first assemblers will only function effectively in lab-controlled environments, such as a vacuum. The advent of self-replicating molecular nanomachines could quickly lead to "desktop nanofactories", tabletop appliances that consume modest amounts of power and contain the software required to manufacture an interesting range of useful products. The arrival of MNT would revolutionize wide sectors of human activity, including manufacturing, medicine, scientific research, communication, computing, and warfare. When full-blown molecular nanotechnology will arrive is currently unknown, but many experts foresee its arrival between 2010 and 2020.
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Necessary technical break-through occurs gradually. A decade back, nano-technology was beyond imagination but today it is realistic. Same way, few years from now we end up with new technology which we havent heard now. \nTechnology is like ladder, you have to make one step at-a-time to reach next step.
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Not quite yet. It's on the list though to be developed in the future. Stay tuned!
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Not in the short term and probably not in the long term either.  They may successful begin their project, but if it's a commercially viable market then others will move in quickly.  Usually the first company to enter a new sector is not the company which achieves the most success in that sector.
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Nanotech engineering.
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well unless the humna race dies out, I would think there will be major advancements in the field of computers.  Right now they are playing with Quantom computers, we should see thoughs in the home in about 20 odd years.  Right now the Dual-processor chips are coming to market, so things are changing already.
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Nano can be applied to anything - and especially if there's marketing folks involved.\n\nOne application I've heard of is coating implants with "nanostructures" to help bones graft tightly to them.
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The picture is photo-shopped, and the technology is no where near a cloak like that depicted being patented.  The research decribed is talking about individual nano-particles (meaning less than a millionth of a meter).  Maybe one day, but I seriously doubt it will be any time in the next 200 years (and probably not even then).  The technology is amazingly complex.
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According to Bill Joy co founder of Sun Microsystems Nanotechnology will rise up and out of our control...I disagree since the technology is still on the drawing board and he's jumping to conclusions without factoring in human interaction and societal factors...so I see a complex future with governmental regualtions and social protests like such with the genetic engineering of produce.
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To the first poster, last time I checked Worldspace's financials were rather ugly.\n\nNow, to answer the question.  Yes, both will survive so long as they continue to spend their money wisely and continue to advance their technology.
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I'm not sure about cars in our pockets, but nanotech is already happening, and yes it is changing our lives. In its simplest form, materials tailored at the nanolevel (a primitive nanotech) are already in stores. Nanomedicine, especially lab-on-a-chip technology is partially available and promises to revolutionize the way we do medicine. I don't know about some of the crazier promises (smart fog and such), but research at the nanoscale is changing our lives and will continue to do so.
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Nanomaterials already exist in their natural form, and they already help run our daily economy—for example, when we use quantum-based lasers to read compact discs and compact videodiscs. But the real challenge for materials scientists is to synthesize nanomaterials and nano-related structures and devices in efficient and cheap ways. Some scientists believe that the real contribution of nanomaterials will come when nanotechnology allows development of the first "universal assembling molecular machine"—a programmable molecular machine or assembler that can scale up production at frenetic rates in a few decades; others believe that this goal is unreachable. Carbon nanotubes and nanoparticles are commercially available for the manufacture of specialty products such as antistatic compounds and transparent coatings. Early users of nanomaterials include the chemical and materials companies, the cosmetics industry, the paint industry, and the nanobiotechnology industry. The nanobiotechnology industry uses nanomaterials in a range of applications, including biosensors, diagnostic devices, drug-release systems, and tissue repair and regeneration. In addition, the electronics and computer industries, electromechanical-component developers, and the sensor industry will make good use of nanomaterials. The regional markets most active in commercializing nanomaterials are Japan, North America, and some European countries, including Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.\n\nNanomaterials technology is still in its infancy, but as the technology matures, it could launch an era of technological revolutions. In the near term, not only will nanomaterials refine the development of existing technologies, but also they will bring new emerging and disruptive technologies to the marketplace. Venture capitalists will see opportunities to invest in new start-ups, not all of which will prosper. In the long term, according to popular hype, nanomaterials may lead to a powerful and accelerated social revolution in which virtually all present industrial processes become obsolete, along with our contemporary concept of labor. The reality will be somewhat different, but without doubt, nanomaterials have an important role to play in nanotechnology and will over time have a strong impact on people's lives. Consumer goods could become plentiful, inexpensive, smart, and durable. The capabilities of medicine and space technology could make a quantum leap. However, the application of stringent regulations at an early stage of the development of nanomaterials technology is likely to slow or inhibit its commercial expansion in some areas, and the practicalities and costs of developments will be prohibitive. Close attention to feasible and practical aspects of the technology is essential to form a realistic view of the future of nanomaterials.
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Nanotechnology. Improved digital broadcasting and free phone calls. Synthetic fuels. New and wonderful drugs for diseases now difficult to treat.