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Are we living in a nanoculture? (ie things go in and out and in of fashion in a flash)

Will nanobots destroy us? (I read they could go heywire and turn the world to mush)

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 21 April 2003 09:05 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, I just loved the term nanoculture, and I'm just ripping of Frank Zappa who said something about people ending up living their lives in nano-seconds, I bet Tad knows the exact quote!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 21 April 2003 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

for all things nano i suggest to join The Nanogirl News Group: :

"Join 151 other members of the Nanogirl News list for free. Subscribers recieve the Nanogirl News,
a free news service summarizing current nanotech related news articles. Subscribers also recieve occasional single news briefs and
event postings. This group is not an open discussion list. Since 2000."

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 21 April 2003 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Nanobots will destroy us, as we will become them. No seriously, I had this idea where some rogue scientist invents some nanoparasites that will lock into people's brain stems and control them like puppets. Even after the body dies and starts rotting away... So the entire population of the planet would get infected and turn into nanotechnology driven zombies.

― cprek (cprek), Monday, 21 April 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

David CronenBorg.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 April 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

damn. next thing you know someone will have taken my automobile crash sex fetish idea...

― cprek (cprek), Monday, 21 April 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I joined that nanobot list! thanks

I am going to record a concept album about nanotechnology.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 21 April 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

cprek you don't have to generate ideas alone in a vacuum or something, there is a whole thinking community around this topic.
maybe it would be of interest to you to check out foresight institute:
"Foresight Institute's goal is to guide emerging technologies to improve the human condition. Foresight focuses its efforts upon nanotechnology, the coming ability to build materials and products with atomic precision, and upon systems that will enhance knowledge exchange and critical discussion, thus improving public and private policy decisions. "

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 21 April 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

jel for your project you should make a song about a bunch of A.I. nanoplant foremens who are getting syndicated (it takes nothing less than an A.I. to supervize a nanotechnology plant) :-)

anyway maybe you should also check the trans-music yahoogroup.
"A group for transhumanists who enjoy talking about both the technical and non-technical aspects of music"

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Many thrilling applications of nanobots spring to mind. They could revolutionize medicine and dentistry.

There are dangers though and it would be foolish to ignore the fact. Bill Joy (president of Sun) published the following article in Wired a couple years back. Probably most here have read it or heard about it. In case not, here is a less optimistic view on nanotech:

Why the future doesn't need us.

― logjaman, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 06:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this thread would be about Bronson Pinchot.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 06:18 (twenty-two years ago)

A nanometer is 1/80,000 the width of a human hair, yet resonators, motors, switches, mass detectors and even microphones are being fabricated at this scale. The smaller size results in higher density of devices, increased speed, lower cost through batch fabrication, and increased sensitivity & selectivity.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"I read they could go heywire and turn the world to mush"

I don't see how this could happen to a "nanobot." Things of that scale are mostly used as sensors, and cannot real turn too much matter into mush, unless it is used to control much large mushing devices.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

bill joy, that pessimist poseur! :-) it's been a while since i've heard of him.

here an article that came to my mind that is answering him tit for tat:
Embrace, Don't Relinquish, The Future by Max More
"Extropy Institute head Max More finds Bill Joy's Wired essay uninformed, unworkable, and even unethical because it will slow down progress in medicine and other vital areas, he believes. "

There are dangers though and it would be foolish to ignore the fact.
true, but on this topic the foresight.org guidelines are more useful than bill joy's morbid fantasies

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i think the best ressource about nanomedicine is
Nanomedicine by Robert A. Freitas Jr.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Self-replicating Microscopic Robots Concern Prince Charles

I hope Oxford University, Research Fellow Nick Bostrom will spring into action to help sorting things out (I think I will write him just to make sure)

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this thread was about the guitarist for Extreme.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, Nuno was made entirely of nanobots.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

NANOBRUSHES

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40617000/jpg/_40617216_brush_nm_b203long.jpg

The group of lead scientist Pulickel Ajayan has previously shown how carbon nanotubes can be grown controllably, and the team has now used the trick to make nanobrushes shaped like toothbrushes, bottle brushes and cotton-buds.

The scientists grow bristles from hot, carbon-laden gas on to threads of carbon silicide finer than baby's hair.

Thin coats of gold steer the carbon away from the brush handle and on to the brush head.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 12 June 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

What's that thing Mork from Ork used to say?

― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 12 June 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Shazbot.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 12 June 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Gesundheit.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

(Waiting for acknowledgement of Patch Adams reference)

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 13 June 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

Keep waiting.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 June 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure I read somewhere that silver nanoparticles could be impregnated into socks, to prevent stinky feet.

― C J (C J), Monday, 13 June 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

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