Nanotech

echnology has evolved from the task and things which once seen as unbelievable to common everyday chores and instruments. The developments and progress in artificial intelligence and molecular technology have spawned a new form of technology; Nanotechnology. Nanotechnology could give the human race eternal life, or it could cause total annihilation. The idea of Nanotechnology was originally conceived by K. Eric Drexler, which he defines it as “Technology based on the manipulation of individual atoms and molecules to build structures to complex atomic specifications. The technology, which Drexler speaks of, will be of the older of ‘nano’—structures will only measure 100 nanometers, or a billionth of a meter. Such fine structures can only be seen with the STM, or Scanning Tunneling Microscope that allows the scientists to not only to peek at the molecular level, but also to pick up and move atoms as well. But the STM has been regarded as too big to ever produce nano-tech structures.

The problem plaguing the progress of nano-tech has raised many questions among the scientific community concerning its viability. The moving of atoms, the gathering of information, the restrictions of the STM, all restrict nano-tech is regarded as ridiculous. But the nano-tech optimists are still out there. However many scientists still it as mere a science fiction. Anti-Nano-group relies on scientific fact to condemn nano-tech. for example it is argued that we are very far away from ever seeing nano-tech due to the fact that when atoms get warm they have a tendency to bounce around. As a result the bouncing atoms collide with other material and mess up the entire structure. Taken in hand with the movement of electron charges, many regard nano-tech as impossible. But this is not the entirety of the obstacles confining nano-tech development. One major setback is the fact that the nanostructures are too small to reflect light in a visible way, making them practically invisible.