Talk:Nanofactory

It might be nice to go into more detail about Drexler's and Chris Phoenix's nanofactory designs. There's a ton of material in Nanosystems which could be summarized, together with some of the more recent papers by Merkle, Freitas and Phoenix.

There's an animation[1] linked at Nanodot[2] which walks through the hypothetical "production lines" of a nanofactory. It might also be worthwhile to discuss the relative merits of molecular mills and general-purpose manipulators; I hear there's been some back-and-forth on this issue in the Drexler camp.

It would also be nice to discuss the actual feasibility of a nanofactory in some detail, citing research both for and against. Oh, to have enough free time.

--Emk 21:36, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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Alright, here's the story. I am a new Wikipedian. I submitted an article stub for "starseed launcher" which is a concept for launching interstellar probes which is IMVHO as good as Forward's starwisp. This was recommended for deletion as being based on a non-notable science paper. Fair enough, it is...and the author, Forrest Bishop, is just getting started (he published some of his ideas, including this one, as a teenager, IIRC). So I search for him on Wikipedia and found this article. It has Bishop's name in red, which I assume means you are requesting an article about him. I posted such an article, and it was speedily deleted as him being non-notable. Well, he is off to a good start as a nanotechnologist. He is no K. Eric Drexler yet, but I expect to hear a lot from him in the next few decades, if he doesn't get hit by a truck first. Notability is a fuzzy logic concept, but I will buy that he is not ready for Wikipedia yet, if you say so. But then why put a link on his name to "please put an article here" so to speak. I am confused.