Nanotechnology: radical new science or plus ça change?

Is a radical nanotechnology involving the construction of macroscopic products via software-directed manipulation of single molecules possible? Are we only a few decades away from a technological utopia where virtually any product may be constructed via molecular manufacturing? These and other simi...

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Main Author: Moriarty, Philip
Format: Article
Published: Collegium Basilea 2005
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/907/
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Summary:Is a radical nanotechnology involving the construction of macroscopic products via software-directed manipulation of single molecules possible? Are we only a few decades away from a technological utopia where virtually any product may be constructed via molecular manufacturing? These and other similarly provocative questions formed the backdrop for a well-attended debate on nanotechnology held in the University of Nottingham last year (26 August 2005).