Mike; Thanks to CRN for publishing this. I worked on Nano issues before I retired from NASA (mostly on the exploitation side since that is my specialty)....
In your scenario #5, you envision: " Five years after their 2007 announcement, Russia found major success in developing 'conventional nanotechnology' as part...
... retired from NASA ... Getting the message out in a ... Thanks, Tom, I look forward to hearing your specific comments on our scenarios and on other CRN...
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I find it fascinating that there appear to be discernable biases in your two currently "published" scenarios. Gov't bad, so there's lots of bad events in...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination Israel is now desalinizing water at a cost of 53 cents per cubic meter. Singapore is desalinizing water for 49 cents...
... That's a very interesting observation, John, especially because I don't think any of us were conscious of bias during the scenario development process....
... My apologies if I seemed to indicate it was deliberate. Not my point. I would expect you folks to avoid such bias in general. It just struck me as a...
... Bear in mind that there are eight scenarios, and some were built explicitly to be optimistic, some explicitly to be pessimistic. Please don't perceive bias...
... So, you're saying you deliberately went out to make biased future- forcasting scenarios? Interesting choice. Why? From here it appears that you're happy...
The "bias" that I was referring to was not the stance of optimism or pessimism; those I would call orientations, rather than biases, and they are perfectly...
Hi, I'm fascinated with nanotechnology even though I don't understand most of it. I was just wondering, if you create a nanobot with a nanofactory, would that...
... This would vary on implementation of the nanotechnology. For example, there exist nanoviruses that do not run their own software (except for replication,...
... That depends on what you count as software. soemthing as sophisticated as a robot probably would, although such a device may well have its software...
Hey all, if anyone is interested let's discuss the way molecular manufacturing can be used to build novel super strong and super light materials. What are some...
... This year Nobel prize has given for high stroage capacity.This high stroage possible by using nanotechnology.So we can store lot of messages would save in...
Nano will be prevalent in IT in the coming years, Already in the pipeline we see: Information storage New nano-based memory platforms Low dielectrics and high...
I agree. Now I have a question for you regarding this, Walter. What would someone need to be able to do, if they dont have good math skills, to get involved in...
I have a question for you about nanoblock material strength. On the CRN website I read this: "MNT-built diamond products can be at least ten times stronger...
