X-Message-Number: 32960
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
Subject: nanotechnology
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:49:50 +0100

I have recently heard a radio programme about Feynman, and it said the he 
(not Drexler) is the true inventior of the subject - in 1959 with this 
paper:

http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html

so on this basis maybe 2060 is the target for assemblers to appear. But of 
course it will still be a long time between their appearance and their use 
in cellular surgery of the type required to cure cancer (really this is the 
only way, to suggest anything else for a complete cure is fraud) and aging 
and freezing damage.

Maybe one should look at the time lag between the Nazi mechanical computer 
and Windows 98? [1938 to 1998 - 60 more years]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse

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From: Gerald Monroe <>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:37:37 -0500
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Perry : what's the closest real world industry or field that is working on a
precursor to molecular manufacturing?

One thing about the overall field that keeps nagging at me : we have a good,
solid description of what molecular manufacturing is and how it will we
work.  Many scientists are confident it will work (and I think the prior art
of nature itself is proof enough).  How many years typically passed between
when writers and scientists of the past accurately described a technology
and when it was first prototyped?  For instance, Babbage's analytical engine
was described in 1837 (refined until his death in 1871) and the first
mechanical computer that was comparable was the German Z1, completed 1938.
 101 years. 


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