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	Small Times: News about MEMS, Nanotechnology and Microsystems
		Nanofactories will make use of a vast number of moving parts, each designed and precisely constructed to do a specific job.
		Each nanofactory will be able to duplicate itself in as little as a few hours, or perhaps a half a week at most.
		Among the many remarkable benefits accruing to humanity from nanofactory proliferation will be this unleashing of millions of eager new minds, allowed for the first time to freely explore and express their brilliant creative energy.
	www.smalltimes.com /document_display.cfm?document_id=7161 (3133 words)

	REDtv.org :: Wikipedia big, MNT small (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		If nanofactories were ubiquitous, then their products would be readily available.
		A tightly controlled factory is a bad idea for at least three reasons: heavy restrictions would prevent the alleviation of vast amounts of human suffering, would hinder the creation of an undreamed-of level of prosperity, and would also make a fl market inevitable.
		Assuming that a binding international agreement can be reached for open distribution of restricted nanofactories (no easy accomplishment!), then the sharing and improvement of product designs is the next step.
	www.redtv.org /newswire/wikipedia_big_mnt_sm (845 words)

	Nanotechnology: Timeline for Molecular Manufacturing
		Nanofactories will be as cheap as any other product, so any desired number of nanofactories can be built.
		Since nanofactories can be used for final manufacturing as well as rapid prototyping, product design will not have to concern itself with "manufacturability." As soon as a prototype is designed, it can be built.
		CRN has published a technical paper describing the process and techniques required to bootstrap from a sub-micron fabricator to a tabletop-sized nanofactory; it appears that this can be done in a few months if suitable design and analysis is done beforehand.
	responsiblenanotechnology.org /timeline.htm (3167 words)

	Nanotechnology: Possible Technical Restrictions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		For several reasons, it is useful for nanofactories to know their location and be in close contact with the central controller.
		When a nanofactory detects a cracking attempt and shuts itself down, that event would be traceable—and the last known location would help to catch the crackers.
		Finally, requiring nanofactories to be in contact with central control would prevent the use of nanofactories in large free-range self-replicating systems that might otherwise be difficult to track and clean up.
	www.crnano.org /restrictions.htm (2301 words)

	IEET Reprints
		The key again is tiny changes, microscopic machines inside the nanofactory that combine microscopic parts, millions every minute, to produce larger and more complex parts.
		Nanofactories will produce structural materials that are stronger than steel and lighter than plastic for about a dollar a pound.
		Because nanofactories likely will be developed within the next fifteen years, that endeavor should begin immediately.
	www.ieet.org /writings/Treder20050621.htm (1228 words)

	MM incentives - Wise-Nano
		A nanofactory capable of building a duplicate in an hour would be able to support a rapid increase in the number of nanofactories to any desired level.
		Although early nanofactories might require expensive feedstock and consume large amounts of power, a combination of deliberate design processes and genetic algorithm approaches could produce rapid improvements in nanofactory component design, allowing the use of simpler feedstock.
		Nanofactories would not require special skill to operate, and would not require working conditions that would be expensive to maintain.
	www.wise-nano.org /w/MM_incentives (1576 words)

	Michael Anissimov - My Position on Nanotechnology Administrative Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		CRN's dream of unifying a hyper-cooperative international body of preexisting governments to develop and administer nanofactories is completely out of the question, as far as I can tell.
		Amazingly, this might actually make it possible for the integrity and awareness standards for top-level nanofactory administrators to be met, in the near term of 5-10 years rather than at some point in the indefinite future.
		But there is also the possibility that it could be developed by an ethical, non-governmental research team with high ethical standards, adequate knowledge of administrative options, and a professional paranoia absent in the leaders of world governments, corporations, and militaries.
	www.acceleratingfuture.com /michael/works/nanotechpolicy.htm (1181 words)

	WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: WorldChanging Nanotechnology
		Nanofactories, the third type of nanotechnology, are the current model for the application of advanced nanoengineering.
		For the most part, the possible dangers arising from nanomaterials and nanomachines are quite similar to environmental hazards with which we're already acquainted, such as toxic industrial particles and pathogens, and the remediation efforts that might be needed are likely to be familiar as well.
		Consider what might happen as desktop nanofactories, able to build just about anything that can fit within them, become cheaper and more sophisticated (remember: nanotechnology has much more in common with electronics than with traditional production techniques, and is likely to be subject to an acceleration similar to Moore's Law).
	www.worldchanging.com /archives/003445.html (1873 words)

	Drexler Counters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		These nanofactories contain no enzymes, no living cells, no swarms of roaming, replicating nanobots.
		Nanofactories based on mechanosynthesis thus will be powerful enablers for a wide range of other nanotechnologies.
		Synthetic reactions and molecular machinery of the sort required for nanofactories have parallels in known systems, and have been explored using computational chemistry by Georgia Institute of Technology professor Ralph Merkle and others.
	www.kurzweilai.net /articles/art0606.html (1707 words)

	Responsible Nanotechnology: Nanotechnology Issues
		A nanofactory should be able to provide cheap, clean, rapid manufacturing; the resulting abundance has the potential to alleviate most shortages, and enable a high standard of living for everyone who has access to it.
		In nanofactories, transmission to nanofactories will probably not be dependent on transmission from infected nanofactories, so having a lower fraction of vulnerable nanofacs will not reduce the speed of spread.
		John, on nanofactory monoculture: sounds like we're agreeing on a lot of points, or at least agreeing that the answers aren't necessarily to be found by comparison with computers.
	crnano.typepad.com /crnblog/2004/08/nanotechnology_.html (6969 words)

	What is a Nanofactory? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The nanofactory is the standard proposed application for first generation molecular manufacturing, also known as molecular nanotechnology.
		If a nanofactory were created successfully, it could also be programmed to produce additional nanofactories for the cost of nothing but the raw materials and the necessary programming.
		When nanofactories become reality (perhaps by 2015), they are likely to revolutionize every sector of manufacturing.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-is-a-nanofactory.htm (366 words)

	Responsible Nanotechnology: Nanotechnology Future
		I have given a lot of thought to the social implications of desktop printer sized nanofactories and railroad car sized industrial nanofactories, but your 13.3 million cubic meter machine is on a completely different scale.
		I suspect that nanofactories to the individual will actually be delayed quite a while after the first nanofactories are developed, due to practical issues as well as government imposed constraints.
		A nanofactory that can duplicate itself from cheap raw materials is a huge step from a nanofactory that can duplicate 99% of itself.
	crnano.typepad.com /crnblog/2004/08/nanotechnology__3.html (14022 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Designing Nanostructures at the Interface between ...
		It points to a larger gap, though, for the expansion of this technology for other diseases: the metabolic pathways and basic biochemistry of the problem must be understood before a factory can be built to fill in for the body’s malfunction.
		Nanofactories could also be used to withdraw unwanted materials from a biological environment—toxic chemicals resulting from a drug overdose or excess LDLs (low density lipoproteins), famous for their link to heart disease.
		Instead of taking daily doses of drugs, which are mostly excreted before they are absorbed and can cause nasty side effects, injections of medicinal nanofactories have the potential to offer selective, regulated, time-sensitive therapy to produce and deliver the medicine your body needs exactly when and where your body needs it.
	www.nap.edu /openbook/0309096685/html/59.html (732 words)

	Total-control approach - Wise-Nano
		The point of this approach is to keep nanofactories away from the bad guys.
		In this approach, nanofactories would be highly restricted, like nuclear technology only more so.
		Because nanofactories are small and self-contained, an unrestricted nanofactory can be smuggled easily; because they can be used to build duplicates rapidly, even one security breach could lead to "No control" worldwide.
	wise-nano.org /t/Total-control_approach (207 words)

	Molecular nanotechnology -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		However, critics doubt the feasibility of controllable self-replicating (Click link for more info and facts about nanobot) nanobots: they cite the possibility of ((genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organism) mutations removing any control and favoring reproduction of mutant pathogenic variations.
		Although such a (Click link for more info and facts about nanofactory) nanofactory would be far less powerful than a universal assembler, it would still be enormously capable.
		A working nanofactory would require a variety of well-designed tips for different reactions, and detailed analyses of placing atoms on more complicated surfaces.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/molecular_nanotechnology.htm (1987 words)

	Nanotechnology - tribe.net
		It turns out that nanofactory design can be quite simple and scalable, meaning that it works the same regardless of the size.
		In the case of nanofactory product design, a good place to hide complexity is within the nanoblocks that are fastened together to make the product.
		Nanofactories would be simple enough to be completely automated—and with components small enough that this would be necessary.
	www.tribe.net /thread/7b19ca24-1624-4ee2-a36a-48c7008c568a?tribeid=30ff7daf-6452-487f-91e5-1df57e7f9f08 (2012 words)

	Reason: The smaller the better: the limitless promise of nanotechnology—and the growing peril of a moratorium
		Nanofactories would be magic boxes that could produce whatever a person desired.
		He suggests that once a country developed the capability for molecular manufacturing using nanoassemblers, it would lose its incentive to trade.There would be no need to trade raw materials because the feedstocks for nanofactories would be derived from ubiquitous substances such as dirt and air.
		In another scenario, Mehta suggests that a nation with nanofactories would become so powerful that it could reduce the rest of the world to the status of colonies.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1568/is_7_35/ai_110361467/pg_4 (1383 words)

	Nanofactory Security Design - Wise-Nano
		It is conceivable to implement a similar system within a nanofactory, whereby only approved designs (or classes of designs) can be produced by a consumer nanofactory.
		If so, nanofactories could identify which jurisdictions they were operating within, and adjust their restrictions accordingly.
		Among the most frightening threats of nanotechnology is the ability to microscopic machines capable of committing crimes that allow their perpetrators an increased anonymity, insuring that they will never be caught and brought to account for their actions.
	wise-nano.org /w/Nanofactory_Security_Design (1048 words)

	About Nanotech Product Catalog
		As I sit here in my living room typing this note into my computer, the desktop nanofactory has yet to be developed, and none of these products are currently available.
		When people become aware of the implications of molecular manufacturing they are either thrilled with anticipation or terrified of the possible dangers.
		Nevertheless, there is the real possibility that the availability of personal nanofactories that can take raw materials, such as dirt or grass clippings, and turn them into useful products like food and computers may usher in a new moneyless age of personal self sufficiency and independence.
	www.nano-catalog.com /aboutnpc.html (523 words)

	Nanofactory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A nanofactory is a proposed system in which nanomachines (resembling molecular assemblers, or industrial robot arms) combine reactive molecules via mechanosynthesis to build larger atomically precise parts.
		A typical nanofactory would fit in a desktop box, in the vision of K.
		If nanofactories can be built, severe disruption to the world economy is one of many possible negative impacts.
	www.wikiverse.org /nanofactory (241 words)

	Bootstrapping a Nanofactory
		To build a nanofactory, you need to start with a working fabricator, a nanoscale device that can combine individual molecules into useful shapes.
		Most of the mass of a nanofactory is in the form of working fabricators, and according to the best estimates we have today, a fabricator could make its own mass in just a few hours.
		This is small enough to be made by a single fabricator in a few hours, but large enough to contain a small CPU, a microwatt of motors or generators, or a fabricator system flexible enough to duplicate itself if given the right commands.
	www.crnano.org /bootstrap.htm (1320 words)

	Fourthturning.com :: View topic - Nanotechnology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		If nanofactories can produce a wide variety of products when and where they are wanted, most of this effort will become unnecessary.
		The flexibility of nanofactory manufacturing, and the radical improvement of its products, imply that non-nanotech products will not be able to compete in many areas.
		A nanofactory would use tiny fabricators, but these would be inert if removed or unplugged from the factory.
	www.fourthturning.com /forums/viewtopic.php?t=1270 (12968 words)

	Molecular Manufacturing: Start Planning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Even the initial products of an MNT nanofactory would be worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and the potential for extremely rapid advancement of nanotech fabrication capability means that no economic or political unit can afford to allow a competitor to control the technology.
		However, work by the author demonstrates that a useful nanofactory can be pre-designed, so that building and debugging the design might take only a few months.
		Since nanofactories will be self-contained, incredibly valuable and easily concealed, a fl market in nanofactories would be difficult to prevent.
	www.kurzweilai.net /articles/art0596.html?printable=1 (2165 words)

	Open source self-replication? - Nanodot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The nanofactories idea is both stupid and flawed; self-replication is the only realistic scenario for mature nanotech.
		The nanofactories idea only came into being AFTER everyone raised concerns about the 'Grey Goo Scenario' - and the way I see it, this idea, no matter how unrealistic it is, is only being used to draw more funding into the field where there otherwise would be non due to the fear.
		The nanofactories idea may seem revolutionary to some (especially to those who proposed it) - but, in reality, it's a HUGE step back from the future us visionaries were given a glimpse of in 1986.
	nanodot.org /article.pl?sid=05/03/18/1758231 (635 words)

	News : Are Nanobots Fiction or Reality? (BetterHumans) - Nanovip.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I know that nanofactories must be built first and then assemblers.
		"Nanofactories" are large structures containing robotic, communication and other systems to do molecular manufacturing at many workstations and then combine the nanoscale products into large products.
		Nanofactories can be built without ever building self-contained assemblers, and nanofactories will also be easier to design.
	www.nanovip.com /forums/showthread.php?t=227 (255 words)

	CSR - CT Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		If you take a very small nanofactory, where very small can be a few microns, you can build a complete nanofactory that small, fasten it together with a lab on a chip and some simple swimming and plankton gathering robotics, suddenly you have an ocean-going version.
		Because all it takes is one nanofactory without restrictions hitting a fl market, and it's very hard to put that genie back in the bottle.
		If nanofactories are too restricted, if most people are denied the benefits of them, then that will fuel a fl market that'll be harder to shut down than the drug market, the illicit drug apparatus that's worldwide and currently seems impossible to stop.
	www.changesurfer.com /eventhorizon/transcripts/20030315Phoenix.html (3841 words)

	What are the Potential Dangers of Molecular Nanotechnology (MNT)? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When nanofactories can arrange atoms into structures — playing with the building blocks of life itself, or in this case nanoblocks -- theoretically anything allowable by the laws of physics can be created fast and cheap.
		Experimentation in nano-augmentation of plants and animals (for example, to make them larger, smaller, faster, stronger, etcetera) could easily lead to runaway consequences in the wild ("green goo" vs "gray goo") that could threaten existing plants and animals, affect the food chain, and pose unforeseen threats to human life.
		The need to regulate the use of home nanofactories could conceivably be an excuse for such an invasion of privacy.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-are-the-potential-dangers-of-nanotechnology.htm (1139 words)

	Foresight Update 53 Page 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The nanofactory design would work with any "reliable self-contained diamondoid fabricator capable of self-replication from simple feedstock under digital control." Phoenix does not consider mechanical features smaller than 1 nm so that design generally simplifies to filling a given volume with bulk diamond lattice.
		The next step up in the hierarchy of the nanofactory is a production module, which consists of one nanocomputer and a few thousand nanofabricators, and which produces a few blocks, a few microns in size, by combining a few thousand nanoblocks.
		If the nanofabricators use a simple, inexpensive chemical feedstock, and if the speed of the nanofactory is stepped down a bit to lessen the cooling requirements, and if technology licensing and product design fees are not too heavy, then home nanofactories seem a likely outcome.
	www.foresight.org /Updates/Update53/Update53.4.html (2037 words)

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