In the 1980′s while a researcher at Rutgers doing artificial intelligence and computer architecture, J. Storrs Hall learned about Eric Drexler‘s ideas and founded the sci.nanotech Usenet newsgroup, which he then moderated for over a decade. He is the inventor of various nanotech concepts, ranging from utility fog to space launch towers. The founding chief scientist of Nanorex Inc., he is a member of the Foresight Batelle productive nanosystems roadmap working group. He has also published the book Nanofuture: What’s Next for Nanotechnology, which won the Foresight Institute’s communication prize in 2005. His latest book, which came out this summer, is Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine. At the 2007 CRN conference entitled “The Future of Nano & Bio Technologies,” he went down the list from A to Z of things you could make with something called a “nanofactory.”
What Could a Nanofactory Make?
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