So, Nanotechnology...

[mr blur]

How do you fancy tucking into a bowl of ice cream that has no more fat than a carrot? Or eating a burger that will lower your cholesterol? If you are allergic to peanuts, perhaps you'd like to fix your food so that any nut traces pass harmlessly through your body. Welcome to the world of nanofoods, where almost anything is possible: where food can be manipulated at an atomic or molecular level to taste as delicious as you want, do you as much good as you want, and stay fresh for ... well, who knows? A world where smart pesticides are harmless until they reach the stomachs of destructive insects; where food manufacturers promise an end to starvation; where smart packaging sniffs out and destroys the micro-organisms that make good food go bad. In short, a food heaven to those who see it spelling the end of obesity and poor diet. Food hell to those who believe the case for nanofood safety is still far from proven. One thing is certain: after the controversy that surrounded genetically modified foods, nano is set to become the next kitchen battleground.

Nanotechnology has its roots in a talk delivered in 1959 by physicist Richard Feynman to the American Physical Society. He predicted a time when individual atoms and molecules might be used as the building blocks for a set of tools that could then make a smaller set, and so on. The scale he was talking about strains the imagination. A nanometer - nm - (from the Greek word nanos, dwarf) is one-billionth of a metre. To help you visualise how small that is, a red blood cell is about 7,000nm across, a human hair 80,000nm wide and a water molecule slightly less than 0.3nm in diameter. The science of nanotechnology generally inhabits the region of 0.1nm to 100nm.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/26/nanotechnology.food

Views? Feelings?

One thing for sure - it'll bring the whackjobs out of the woodwork.

[Deep13]

1. They're playing GAWD!

Tag, you're god!

[TZ]

2. It's unnnatural!

So its teh evul!
Actually I find the technology interesting. You know where I first heard, learned about nanotechnology? Star Trek: The Next Generation.....:)

[salvorhardin]

3. Ah, that crazy Wesley

He nearly destroys the ship every week but who can stay angry at him 'cause he's so cute.

[moggie]

5. Bah

He was an annoying Mary Sue who should have been shoved out an airlock without a suit. Cute? That would be Beverly: 24th century MILF.

[salvorhardin]

6. He was cute when he first started

Then the writers and the attitude he brought to the series just made him a angsty joke. They even had the obligatory anti-drug episode (bonus points for simultaneously making it an anti-gamer episode too).

I agree about Beverly though I go more for the Vash types.

[Orrex]

10. The anti-drug/anti-gamer episode also gets points

For featuring Ashley Judd.

I'm not generally inclined to believe in the supernatural, but...

[DavidDvorkin]

4. The sooner, the better

Because I'm getting older!

[salvorhardin]

7. I want nanotech to repair *me*

Who cares about keeping the food fresh. Keep me fresh!

[moggie]

8. Blood Music

Greg Bear. Shudder.

[mr blur]

9. Yeah, that's the one I always think of, too. (NT)

[jberryhill]

11. We're trying

We've been putting nanobots in the chemtrail solution, but we had a problem withe first couple of batches. It was supposed to repair damaged body tissues, but it turned out to cause Morgellon's disease.

We're working on fixing that in the next batch.

Keep watching the skies.

[semillama]

12. Morgellon's Disease?

Damn, there goes my theory about autism.

[realisticphish]

13. They're the same thing

:eyes:
God, do some research

[GoneOffShore]

14. Neal Stephenson wrote an interesting book on

fictional nanotech.

The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

I'll have to go back and reread it.