What is molecular production?
Molecular production is a hypothetical future use of reprogrammed nanoparticles of "assembly" to create an atom atom atom. The molecular assembly would be a robotic nanoparticles manipulator able to place individual atoms, such as carbon, on a surface with atomic accuracy. A daily person would experience this technology in the form of "nanofactors", a separate desktop molecular manufacturing unit, which uses clean material of raw materials such as propane gas.
For a molecular assembly, to be useful for people, it would have to be able to make copies. Otherwise, it would take too long for one assembler to create anything significant or value. If a large number of assemblies could be carried out for cooperation, macro -accuracy products could create atomic accuracy using a fully automated process with high permeability. This is sufficiently significant that if technical obstacles are overcome, technology would start further industrial defense, probably more transformative than the first two together.
Molecular assemblies and molecular production are nothing new. We have trillions in our bodies: organelles called ribosomes. Ribosomes that work in large numbers synthesize each protein in every organism in nature, from extreme microbes to blue whale. Their basic design is the same, because every living thing has evolved from a common ancestor, which already had a basic system of protein synthesis. Of course, ribosomes also replicate themselves.
If an inorganic molecular assembly was created capable of making copies of yourself, it could create a new form of "life", albeit controlled directly by programming. This idea was called molecular production and some of the technical details were actually developed. Theorists designed physically viability nanoparticles, engines, bateRie, wires, movable rods, sorters, shafts and more. Some of these nanoparticles have already been produced, others are actively working.
Molecular production has the potential to change the company upside down, but has barely heard of it. The ideas of molecular production are often combined or associated with other possible applications of the wider field of nanotechnology in general, making it difficult to come up with regulatory policies. One study found that public opinions on nanotechnology can easily be manipulated by changing just a few sentences in the way of introducing the topic. These knowledge gaps are worrying for some futurists and politicians who would like to see more discussions about the futuristic possibilities of molecular production and the way it could be regulated.