I’d be much more inclined to believe that nanotech advocates “got the physics wrong” if I wasn’t typing this with nanotech hands as a result of thoughts in my nanotech brain.
when people can see its absence in the real world
...You can’t swing a cat in the real world without hitting nanotech, my friend. I stumble across self-replicating nanotech every day. There are billions of nanotech factories in my immediate vicinity that are equivalent in power to ribosomes (by merit of being ribosomes). Nanotech heals my wounds and is the seat of my consciousness.
I buy that it’s a hard problem. Protean-folding is nontrivial. There’s no guarantee that we’ll ever be able to do it quickly. And yeah, self-replicating nanotech sounds like crazy sci-fi—but I type this with nanotech fingers.
I’d be much more inclined to believe that nanotech advocates “got the physics wrong” if I wasn’t typing this with nanotech hands as a result of thoughts in my nanotech brain.
...You can’t swing a cat in the real world without hitting nanotech, my friend. I stumble across self-replicating nanotech every day. There are billions of nanotech factories in my immediate vicinity that are equivalent in power to ribosomes (by merit of being ribosomes). Nanotech heals my wounds and is the seat of my consciousness.
I buy that it’s a hard problem. Protean-folding is nontrivial. There’s no guarantee that we’ll ever be able to do it quickly. And yeah, self-replicating nanotech sounds like crazy sci-fi—but I type this with nanotech fingers.
It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when.