Nanotechnology Takes Off - KQED QUEST

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From Lawrence Berkeley National Labs to Silicon Valley, researchers are manipulating particles at the atomic level, ushering in potential cures for cancer, clothes that don't stain, and solar panels as thick as a sheet of paper.



Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: May 8, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Author: KQEDondemand

Length: 00:10:28
Rating: 4.79
Views: 213802

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Video Comments:
xXMonteCristoXx (September 7, 2008 at 5:22 am)
so with nanotechnology, we can basically create anything we want that has been created before, but we can also fix things wih it, from cells to minerals.....and kill things with it too.....sort of like a T-Virus in Resident Evil
PacerBaby60 (September 6, 2008 at 11:56 pm)
Metal Gear Soild!
BryceBnc (September 3, 2008 at 6:08 am)
I think a good idea to strive for first would be to make nanomachines that could possibly increase the use of your brain cells. Make you smarter so you can think of even more things to use this new technology for and the way we use it :)
LegendSaber (August 26, 2008 at 9:45 pm)
ronpack; I think just about every generation in the history of mankind has said the time they grew up in was better than the time they died in. People in general tend to dislike change, but love nostalgia. Personally, I ADORE the technology we have now, and couldn't imagine life without it.
ronpack (August 27, 2008 at 2:36 am)
well, there's one thing for certain. human beings are never gonna stop advancing technology. the only thing I worry about is dangerous experiments done in the name of science. they should be doing those on other planets. not Earth...
freemind89 (August 24, 2008 at 5:32 pm)
that helped gaining some knowledge
btw they didnt mention opportunities for nanoelectronics like quantum computers
their perfomance will be million times higher than present computers.
also new isolators are in process
jayoeyou (August 23, 2008 at 6:49 am)
Watch the movie Wall-E!
killaconquerguy (August 21, 2008 at 8:58 am)
i think with nanotechnology lasers will be alot stronger
riciard55 (August 16, 2008 at 10:23 am)
truly amazing
theory problem with mind it can only look at one aspect at a time so we are creating the interpretation of what is known by subjective experiment in other words we cannot see totality at any one time its only because you are thinking it at that moment in time.its like having a circle of limitation or parameters.and you cannot see outside that circle due to limits of subjectivity experience.and just maybe you cannot come up with an experiment to know it.create experiment to know.
alxvry (August 18, 2008 at 12:21 am)
I believe that's the heisenberg principle? But it's been proven that we can move atoms or molecules around. IBM have proven this by spelling 'IBM' with atoms.