{"id":2288,"date":"2017-12-26T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T02:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlansuhot\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2017-12-26T10:30:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T02:30:34","slug":"a-nanofabricator-will-change-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlansuhot\/2017\/12\/26\/a-nanofabricator-will-change-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"A nanofabricator will change everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Needs and wants will be a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">James Burke has a vision for the future. He believes that by the middle of this century, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/news\/2013-09-28\/james-burke-ive-seen-the-future\/\">perhaps as early as 2042<\/a>, our world will be defined by a new device: the <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/08\/31\/darpas-new-initiative-aims-to-make-nanoscale-machines-a-reality\/\">nanofabricator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">These tiny factories will be large at first, like early computers, but soon enough you\u2019ll be able to buy one that can fit on a desk. You\u2019ll pour in some raw materials\u2014perhaps water, air, dirt, and a few powders of rare elements if required\u2014and the nanofabricator will go to work. Powered by flexible photovoltaic panels that coat your house, it will tear apart the molecules of the raw materials, manipulating them on the atomic level to create\u2026anything you like. Food. A new laptop. A copy of Kate Bush\u2019s debut album, <em>The Kick Inside. <\/em>Anything, providing you can give it both the raw materials and the blueprint for creation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"lYOztqaigF\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/12\/25\/the-nanofabricator-how-a-machine-that-can-make-anything-would-change-everything\/\">How a Machine That Can Make Anything Would Change Everything<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;How a Machine That Can Make Anything Would Change Everything&#8221; &#8212; Singularity Hub\" src=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/12\/25\/the-nanofabricator-how-a-machine-that-can-make-anything-would-change-everything\/embed\/#?secret=qzNxmyKDYq#?secret=lYOztqaigF\" data-secret=\"lYOztqaigF\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Needs and wants will be a thing of the past. James Burke has a vision for the future. He believes that by the middle of this century, perhaps as early as 2042, our world will be defined by a new device: the nanofabricator. These tiny factories will be large at first, like early computers, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5576,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[203],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurology","tag-nanotech","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlansuhot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlansuhot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlansuhot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlansuhot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlansuhot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlansuhot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlansuhot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlansuhot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azlansuhot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}