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The automated factories took what they needed:
Physicist Richard Feynman is the first scientist to formally talk about nanomachines; see his fascinating talk at Feynman's Nanotechnology Talk on December 29th, 1959.
Here is a brief excerpt:
I would like to describe a field, in which little has been done, but in which an enormous amount can be done in principle. This field ... is more like solid-state physics in the sense that it might tell us much of great interest about the strange phenomena that occur in complex situations. Furthermore, a point that is most important is that it would have an enormous number of technical applications.
What I want to talk about is the problem of manipulating and controlling things on a small scale...
It is a staggeringly small world that is below. In the year 2000, when they look back at this age, they will wonder why it was not until the year 1960 that anybody began seriously to move in this direction.
However, before you decide that Feynman is the creator of the nanotechnology idea, read about the ultra-micro-robots from Raymond Z. Gallun's works.
See also the living metal cubes from the 1920 story The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt. Comment/Join this discussion ( 1 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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