The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do... anything.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.
When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.
I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.
In the culture at large, the war over science fiction's creative validity has been long since won, but guardians at the gates of literature, movies, and TV linger unconvinced, even as other genres fitfully transcend critical perceptions of insubstantiality.
Many fiction writers who put the science in don't get it right.
Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule.
I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.
Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.
Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.
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