Where is all soft nanotechnology?
There is sometimes a distinction between soft and hard nanotechnology, Drexler reprecenting hard.
This is not really my subject but from what I’ve read there seems to be a lot of nano-tech research (aside from nanotubes) that is focused on self-assembly—not as in “nanobot-self-replication”, but more like protein folding, what would be classified as soft.
Edit: I just realized that the kind of of nanotechnology that is really relevant for the FAQ is the one Drexler is proposing, but it seems to me as the description is analogous to trying to explain the singularity but only describing Kurzweil’s definition.
Where is all soft nanotechnology? There is sometimes a distinction between soft and hard nanotechnology, Drexler reprecenting hard.
This is not really my subject but from what I’ve read there seems to be a lot of nano-tech research (aside from nanotubes) that is focused on self-assembly—not as in “nanobot-self-replication”, but more like protein folding, what would be classified as soft.
Edit: I just realized that the kind of of nanotechnology that is really relevant for the FAQ is the one Drexler is proposing, but it seems to me as the description is analogous to trying to explain the singularity but only describing Kurzweil’s definition.