Randall Randall wrote:
> Curiously, the
> people most knowledgeable about nanotech predict the shortest
> times until we have it (e.g. Zyvex' website claims that they
> will have an assembler within 5-10 years).
Not a prediction, just a random thought: If nanotech is anything like software, they'll be 90% finished in 10 years, and the other 90% will take 90 years.
Unfortunately, it looks like the only two nanotech-related claims on the idea futures exchange both specify 'by 2000' and aren't
doing well... http://www.ideosphere.com/fx-bin/Claim?claim=ncryp http://www.ideosphere.com/fx-bin/Claim?claim=Stew
(last trade of 12 and 5 (of 100) respectively)
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