…commercialized, that will depend on the industry. If the industry decides, for whatever reason, whether justified or not, it doesn’t want to manufacture such products as soon as it’s feasible, then CNT CPUs may not come about until much later. (Much like touchscreens…the technology has been around for a long time, but it hasn’t seen widespread commercialization until recently, in cash registers and the iPhone).

Very nice video!

very good vid answered alot of questions

excellent work!

this is cool stuff…im an electrical engineer and i work at a nuclear plant…if i wasn’t doing that i’d definitely be going into this field…its the wave of the future!

Great video.
Lately i have been reading quite a lot about nanotechnology and I was pleasantly shocked when i realized just how fast this technology is growing.
What i also noticed is that people act like its still science fiction.
I also read some of Ray Kurzweil’s articles and plan to read his books. Could you, as a scientist, tell me if the scientific community agrees with his timescale till singularity or whatever you guys call it.

Hi n1bigdaddy,

Thank you!

This technology is indeed fairly fast growing, and I expect it to continue to grow at a fairly accelerated rate.

With regards to Ray Kurzweil, I am not familiar with his work, so I cannot comment on it.

How fast exactly?
I am particularly interested in medical nano technology
Do you think that for instance we can expect nanobots curing diseases in our body with 3 or 4 decades?
You should look Kurzweil up.
He says we will have nanobots replacing red blood cells in our body and a whole lot of other stuff by 2029. Would you agree with that or do you think it might take a lot longer?
Sorry for these kinda weird questions. Its just that i never had a chance to talk to a scientist on youtube.

Carbon nanotube technology (in terms of electronics) has progressed over the past few years to achieve very well aligned nanotubes and even small/medium scale electronic circuits. However, this is in an academic setting; how fast such technology will reach the market depends heavily on economic factors and forces. For example, whether consumers and even the industry embraces a technology will affect how fast that technology matures and reaches commercialization.

Furthermore, for medical equipment in the US, the law requires a very thorough FDA review process before the product can reach consumers/market. So I must admit it will be very hard to accurately predict the future roadmap for nanotechnology. However, I will say that I personally believe that nanotechnology will make its way into our lives in some form or another within the next decade. It may first take form as nanomaterials coatings.