future nanotechnology

future nanotechnology

Future nanotechnology looks more like a science fiction story but even today many nanotechnology applications are becoming reality.

Sophisticated nanotechnology and nanomedicine, fully immersive virtual reality, synthetic life, brain-computer interfaces, and genuine artificial intelligence could become technologically possible before 2050, with massive, global consequences.

Researchers in chemistry, physics, and biology are already touting progress on projects that could someday lead to highly affordable solar energy or microscopic robots that attack bacteria and cancer cells.

One difficulty is that molecules act strangely at such small scales, which makes them potentially useful but also difficult to manipulate. And the scale is so small that nano-devices will likely have to be made by the billions or trillions to be useful. Normal manufacturing methods will be useless. Nanosystems will have to build themselves.

Future nanotechnology, commercially, will be better insured by real products and intellectual property than were previous technology fads.