Molecular nanotechnology: The second industrial revolution!

It´s been claimed that nanotechnology will lead to a second industrial revolution. That might sound like an overstatement, but I don´t think it is. The most promising aspect of nanotechnology is molecular nanotechnology, which will enable us to build atomically precise structures. With help from molecular assemblers/nanofactories we can make raw materials that today are considered to be of almost no value into fantastic super-products almost for free. This can help to solve our challenges of resource scarcity, global warming, and global poverty. ABOUT THE LICENSING OF THE MATERIAL I´VE USED A lot of the pictures I´ve used are in the public domain. And a lot of pictures have a Creative Commons license. You can find links to all the different pictures with CC-license I have used here: (link will appear soon). The links will give you information about the copy-right-holders. Thank you very much to all of the people who have released your work into the public domain, or given it a CC-license! I believe that my use of book-covers qualify very clearly as being fair use: en.wikipedia.org The animation of a nanofactory, as well as the digitally produced image portraying a nanofactory, were produced by Lizard Fire Studios (John Burch): lizardfire.com, and funded by a challenge-grant from nanorex.
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Personal Nanofactories

Thank you for visiting and supporting Personal Nanofactories. Personal nanofactories refer to a proposed system in which nanomachines (with tiny industrial robot arms) combine reactive molecules to build ever larger and atomically precise parts – not visible to the human eye. These, in turn, would be assembled by positioning mechanisms of assorted sizes to then build visible but still atomically-precise products.

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A typical personal nanofactory would fit in a desktop box. For an illustration of such a device, please see the video below. If and when personal nanofactories are built, many predict a severe disruption to the world economy because the old economy based on scarcity would be gone, and the new economy in which the input after raw materials (like toner) is basically just intelligent software.  The debate is now less on if the nanofactory can be built, but how to best disperse nanofactories throughout the world. Great benefits would be available if we make the right decisions.