What People Desire for Nanotechnology

Science, especially if you are taking physics, is known to have absolute measurements. By the meaning of the word "absolute", if applied to nanotechnology in this case, a range of a few nanometres to tens of nanometres in measurements for nanotechnology is simply not small or accurate enough to obtain the most absolute results. Nanotechnologists, therefore, are concentrating their efforts in manipulating atoms one by one, even though the accuracy would be down to tenths of nanometres.

Nanotechnology is sure to evolve, and it is a convergent science. By the phrase convergent science, I refer to the fact that at nano phase, an item is started small and then could be built up layer by layer gradually. If nanotechnology progresses in the future, we should by then be having cute but tiny nanobots (like me) to help us assemble equally small atoms, stacking them up together to form bigger objects, assuming that they could make twice the amount after each cycle, we would need 30 cycles of assembling for metre-sized parts.

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