What is nanotechnology?

Nanotechnologists study, analyze, and build mechanical devices that are capable of causing molecular changes to occur at precise locations and in a precise sequence. This can be a chemical reaction or a mechanical reaction and the process is so small that the subject of nanotechnology remains a theory.

Molecules are huge compared to the atoms that they are built of but it is the atoms that this future machine is pushing around.

By some estimates by the year 2012 these future machines will be building nano products to a large enough scale to control ( i was going to say add but i reworded it to control since adding money to the global economy seems to be a passtime for those who control the printing presses nowadays) nearly 300 billion dollars of the global economy.

With these nano chemistry enabled machines of the future the world will undergo a complete and radical paradigm shift.

It will be unlike anything that as ever been seen before.

With our current mentality we are accustomed to fixing things from the outside in - most of the time. If something breaks we take a course of action and set the situation right by applying a force from the outside, such as a cast to a fractured bone.

In the world of the not so distant future our healers and repairmen will simply take a syringe or some other device and insert millions of these nanobots into the environment and the machines will create nanomaterials and nanocoatings that will resolve the situation.

Sounds to strange to be true?

That's why it is called a paradigm shift.

Nanotechnology is already being tested in some fields such has in NASCAR racing where race teams use molecular devices as nanocoatings to cut thermal transfer in engines. The same team also uses a form of nanotechnology to control heat and to make windows rain repellant.

This is already replacing certain mechanical devices such as winshield wipers, and some of the parts that were onced required for heating and cooling.

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The medical world is starting to use molecular bio machines for molecular imaging and targeted therapy.

Today if you break a leg then you will most likely get put through a battery of tests and end up in an MRI or magnetic resonance imaging scanner.

Molecular imaging on the other hand is intended to improve this process. Scientifically speaking the nanobots are sent in vivo or in situ to analyze the actual mechanisms of the disease by targeting the molecular components. Subsequently it might promote a molecule to morph itself into another substance.

The same concept is being looking into for conditions such as diabetes where the insulin dependent diabetic would no longer need to do daily injections due to the fact that these tiny medical machines would be working inside the body to modify the insulin reactors.

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This is all great news but i wonder if these future machines would be affordable by all or would they be the property of the elite in a world where the god given resources of the masses are hoarded by the oligarchal attitude of the few.

2012 is not the distant future, so what man does with the potentially miraculous like potential of this future machine remains to be seen.

The flip side to all of this lies in alternative healing methods and in the ways of the ancient where nature was the great healer and where holistic health practitioners used meditation and cosmic vibrations to heal the soul, thus the mind, body, and spirit.

I prefer the latter since i abhore the thought of having robots in my body.


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