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Behold, the NanoFactory

By csven - May 21, 2005

in Tech

Courtesy of an acquaintance over at Accelerating Change who cited Mark Finner's post on the Bay Area Future Salon site, I just watched a neat little Quicktime video on the Nanotechnology Now website showing how a NanoFactory might work. The piece is a collaborative effort between engineer/animator, John Burch, and pioneering nanotechnologist, Dr. K. Eric Drexler. Very cool (although I didn't get any sound... bummer). Considering these little conveyors and linkages and cams are unimaginably tiny, is it even appropriate to think of this as a kind of elegant Victorian mechanism?

If you don't have Quicktime and can't install it, there's a slideshow presentation as well so you can see some of what you're missing. Enjoy.

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