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 linked at Nanodot 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.