Public Access TV Show Future Talk has an episode on Nanotechnology and it’s future applications Host Martin Wasserman interviews technology forecaster and research director of the Lifeboat Foundation Brian Wang, and managing partner of Cleantech Circle and co-founder of the MIT-Stanford-Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum Wasiq Bokhari.
The show is about 30 minutes long and was a basic introduction to the concepts and issues around Nanotechnology.
Future Talk is a cable TV show produced at the Midpeninsula Media Center in Palo Alto, California. The premise of the show is that technology is changing the world at a very rapid pace, and that these changes contain not only promises, but also perils. The show features leading edge guests who analyze the direction of technology, and what we can do to extract the maximum benefits from it, while minimizing the possibility of harm.
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I had answered that I thought that DNA nanotechnology and carbon nanotube nanotechnology are two of the most interesting areas of nanotechnology today. DNA Nanotechnology has very interesting and high potential research and carbon nanotubes are being deployed for commercial use now. Not stated in the show is the graphene technology which is closely related to the carbon nanotube work.
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Eric Drexler talks about the self assembly pathway to molecular nanotechnology
Chris Phoenix suggests enhancing structural DNA to make centimeter scale constructs
The University of Florida developed light activated nanomotors of DNA
DNA was used to form sheets of metal nanoparticles
DNA box application of 3D DNA nanotechnology
More shapes and tools are being made from DNA
Another method for 3 dimensional DNA
Carbon Nanotubes fibers can be hundreds of meters long
Carbon nanotube factories with higher production levels are being opened In total about 1000 tons/year of carbon nanotubes will be made in 2010.
DNA origami is being used to place carbon nanotubes
The Computational chemistry work of Ralph Merkle and Robert Freitas is being experimentally tested by Philip Moriarty Merkle and Freitas have determined 9 pieces of a molecular toolset which should be usable to enable diamondoid molecular nanotechnology.
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Military Nanofactory level Nanotech
Not nanotech per se (except if you could use advanced nanotech to separate deuterium from hydrogen. Solar explosions (large solar flares) could be unleashed with future man made technology.
There are a lot more implications and possibilities and developments that are discussed and tracked here at nextbigfuture.
Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology.
Known for identifying cutting edge technologies, he is currently a Co-Founder of a startup and fundraiser for high potential early-stage companies. He is the Head of Research for Allocations for deep technology investments and an Angel Investor at Space Angels.
A frequent speaker at corporations, he has been a TEDx speaker, a Singularity University speaker and guest at numerous interviews for radio and podcasts. He is open to public speaking and advising engagements.