Audio and Video of “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” Saturday, Nov 28 2009
nanotechnology 1:31 pm
Audio and video of Richard Feynman’s classic “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” lecture (1959), which presented the vision of molecular nanotechnology for the first time, is available from Photosynthesis.com, an audio site. There are other archival recordings available, including complete audio and video from the 4th Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, held in 1995. Apple Computer was a key sponsor of the conference.
Back then, it seems to me that a lot of people thought that molecular nanotech would be closer by now (I remember hearing people say “about 20 years”, so roughly 2015), but they were obviously wrong. My guess is that the innovation and economic activity in the tech sector around that time made them overoptimistic about progress in general.
It’s difficult to say how close we’ll be by 2015. They might only have been off by a few years, if at all. CRN suggests the 2015-2020 range for the appearance of molecular manufacturing. We’ll have to wait and see.
Just as with AI, the popular definition of Nanotechnology is the range of engineering that we have yet to accomplish. Nanotechnology is already revolutionizing material science today. In 6 years nanomaterials will be everywhere, and we will still say that nanotech hasn’t arrived. It’s important when predicting the future that we concretely define the words we use.
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