A direct word
interpretation would say that it is the technology dealing with production and
use of nano-materials (i.e. materials of size around a billionth of a meter).
Oxford Reads:
nanotechnology
n. the branch of technology that deals with dimensions and tolerances
of 0.1 to 100 nanometers.
But it is not simple when you
are at the thickness level of a few atoms. It is like dividing a hair into
10,000 strings. Let’s play a brain wrestle and make it clearer. Think a
hundred bundles of currency notes (yes 10,000 notes), imagine putting all in a
box and mixing them. Now, can you imagine what a mess it would be? Can you
find a particular one easily? When there are so much of mess in just a cross
section of human hair the world might seem really terrible and mysterious if
we had eyes that powerful.
With nanotechnology around –
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The Bright Future
we can see
elevators mounting to the space, bridges built with pencil thick support, and
tiny nano-devices injected in your blood vessels which can keep track of your
organs and repair in case of any damage. Then, you may bring a can of paint
and throw the content on the wall and they will arrange themselves, and yes,
they may even change colors and patterns depending on your mood or command.
There will be machines that take materials from nature and replicate
themselves. There may even be printers that can print thing ranging from
shirts to food, fed on raw maters and commanded by computer programs. Tomorrow
you may see a lovely jacket in the virtual showroom over the internet, test it
by virtually wearing it and then say “I’ll Take It”. Zzoooppp…… Your printer
prints it for you in seconds.
So is the
mystery of nanotechnology. We don’t know what time in the future will all this
come about or even weather they will. May be, those machines takeover our race
by then? What we know is we can’t avoid it. We can’t stop it. It is happening
so fast and silent that by the time the world understands it, it will have
revolutionized everything.
Hay... did I say that those machines may takeover our race? I must not
forget to say that it is such a
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that can even end human civilization, yes I am afraid, it is. It can be due to
rare mistakes in highly complicated machines. The hunger of over powering
national defense (I'd say offence rather) may one day gift this legacy of ours
to the machines. Or You never know when a new virus, more powerful than HIV,
is released from a scientific laboratory only to let us realize that we won't
have grand children to follow and there will bee everything free . . . . . but
no one to acquire!
The good thing
is; It is all an imagination. Nothing that bad has happened as yet. We have to
take care that this golden dream doesn't turnout to be a nightmare. The
solution is there in every problem, we have to apply before its too late.
Yes Friendzz ....
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and get ready for the flight, or you may get a jerk, a jerk too furious for
mankind to withstand. You are the future. You are the pilot to this
expedition. You have to drive us to that new world, safe and sound. You have
to create and execute the safety norms. You COMMAND!!!
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