What is next after nano? After going as small as you can go, it's going to be tough to follow it up...
I voted Robotics. My reasoning was as follows.
Nanotechnology is very small, and this smallness, while very useful is still remote in the human realm.
The nano-interface would be a reasonable successor, but in the end you have to construct a bridge between the very small and the human-size. This bridge will be awkward and possibly self-contradictory at places because the human-scale behavior and the nanoscale behavior are so very different.
On the other hands, robots can be built which can be scalable. These robots can better adapt to the nano-regime. I don't think they can go down to the nanobot scale, but at least they have scaling flexibility maybe down to microns to millimeters, whereas humans don't.
As for robots vs humans, I think the so-called Singularity is the transformation or adaptation of the human race to robot forms. Starting with prosthetics, then going to cyborgs, then further.
Nanotechnology is very small, and this smallness, while very useful is still remote in the human realm.
The nano-interface would be a reasonable successor, but in the end you have to construct a bridge between the very small and the human-size. This bridge will be awkward and possibly self-contradictory at places because the human-scale behavior and the nanoscale behavior are so very different.
On the other hands, robots can be built which can be scalable. These robots can better adapt to the nano-regime. I don't think they can go down to the nanobot scale, but at least they have scaling flexibility maybe down to microns to millimeters, whereas humans don't.
As for robots vs humans, I think the so-called Singularity is the transformation or adaptation of the human race to robot forms. Starting with prosthetics, then going to cyborgs, then further.
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The nano-interface would be a reasonable successor, but in the end you have to construct a bridge between the very small and the human-size. This bridge will be awkward and possibly self-contradictory at places because the human-scale behavior and the nanoscale behavior are so very different.
The link between DNA on the nanoscale and human disease is very profound and still not understood completely.
Even without scaling considerations, there is still a link between nanoscale and our scale.
my vote is for 'Other'. The category being Meta Materials/Programable Matter. Or simply...designed and 'programable' molecules which posses the properties of super-atoms.
Other. Temporal technology.
Possably this>
In Earth's environment, with respects to getting rid of waste, not all is uniform.
I have walked beneath a ski-lift during the summer, when no snow was on the ground and was surprised as how the ground was littered from items, that may have fallen from the skiers above.
If any of you have walked the banks of a stream, in any large city, you will also notice how much human junk, is littered upon the banks of this stream.
Junk from man, seems to flow all over the planet, even when the intentions are ecologically observed, for the most part.
In my earlier say, on unplanned disposal of a supposed nanotechnology, ultra fine powder, into a tributary stream, it was noted, that since nanopowders, can penetrate the cell walls of most animals, then improperly disposed of nanopowders, would of course become pervasive, if disposed of, or dumped in streams.
Cell phones become lost.This process just occurs and there is no rhyme or reason to it.
The last theory posted, with the advent of possible rouge self evolving techno,nanobots, in bio.This is that through the process of self genniseing, an advanced cell phone utilizing nanotechnologies inside of it, thrown onto the side of a nanotechnolgied stream.
This disguarding might cause the herds of already disposed nanobots, to combine with the cell-phones nanobots and bring this phone to life.
Since the media that the dumped nanobots, were dumped into, was biological, then the germs, funguses and other residents of this stream, would have already been invested in the natural biology of the area.
This is a guess, but never the less possible.
Technically, the end product, might be a phone, with tendrils that self propels, is aware of man due to the cell phone memory and might adapt ways, possibly, to reproduce something similar to itself?
What would be halaroius and you have to muse at the possabilties of such, is leftover junk from a battlefield, which was made from nanotechnolgy, through the process of self evolution, becomeing self alive.
The local villagers might say, "No don't pick wild fruit in that area, the bomb casing have grown legs and will chase you"!
In Earth's environment, with respects to getting rid of waste, not all is uniform.
I have walked beneath a ski-lift during the summer, when no snow was on the ground and was surprised as how the ground was littered from items, that may have fallen from the skiers above.
If any of you have walked the banks of a stream, in any large city, you will also notice how much human junk, is littered upon the banks of this stream.
Junk from man, seems to flow all over the planet, even when the intentions are ecologically observed, for the most part.
In my earlier say, on unplanned disposal of a supposed nanotechnology, ultra fine powder, into a tributary stream, it was noted, that since nanopowders, can penetrate the cell walls of most animals, then improperly disposed of nanopowders, would of course become pervasive, if disposed of, or dumped in streams.
Cell phones become lost.This process just occurs and there is no rhyme or reason to it.
The last theory posted, with the advent of possible rouge self evolving techno,nanobots, in bio.This is that through the process of self genniseing, an advanced cell phone utilizing nanotechnologies inside of it, thrown onto the side of a nanotechnolgied stream.
This disguarding might cause the herds of already disposed nanobots, to combine with the cell-phones nanobots and bring this phone to life.
Since the media that the dumped nanobots, were dumped into, was biological, then the germs, funguses and other residents of this stream, would have already been invested in the natural biology of the area.
This is a guess, but never the less possible.
Technically, the end product, might be a phone, with tendrils that self propels, is aware of man due to the cell phone memory and might adapt ways, possibly, to reproduce something similar to itself?
What would be halaroius and you have to muse at the possabilties of such, is leftover junk from a battlefield, which was made from nanotechnolgy, through the process of self evolution, becomeing self alive.
The local villagers might say, "No don't pick wild fruit in that area, the bomb casing have grown legs and will chase you"!