Today, the Nobel Prize people awarded three European Scientists the 8m Swedish kronor prize in Chemistry for “nano-machines.” Five years earlier, they succeeded in making a molecular “car” drive across a piece of copper. It was only six billionths of a meter but I’m confident that’s a great distant at this scale.
I remember when I first hear of nanobots…in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. They were a science experiment of Wesley’s that escaped and got into the Enterprise‘s computer core in the third season. Being a Sci-Fi show, I quickly dismissed these things as a plot point or McGuffin. Over the years, it seems the show’s writers did their homework for a change. Now these guys are getting closer.
What about them taking over the world or evolving on their own as per Futurama‘s “A Clockwork Origin”? They seem pretty confident it won’t happen. Well, I only hope they can fashion the nano-bots into little tanks to go into people’s bodies to kill cancer cells directly since chemotherapy sucks.