• Question: Do you think that there is a future in Nanotechnology? If so , in what specifically?

    Asked by 242cmmb52 to Alex, Chris, Mohamed, Rik, Victoria on 11 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Rik Allen

      Rik Allen answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      Hi – almost certainly. I’m not really up on nanotech, but some of the materials coming out of it like carbon nano-tubes seem fun. They might be strong enough to make a space elevator – where you can just run a lift cable from the ground up into space and it stays there without support because the earth spins it around like something on the end of a string. Then you can climb the cable and get into space without a rocket.

      The great thing about something like that is that we don’t know what it will bring – in the same way that when i was young, we didn’t know what computers would bring. It will be your job to decide and make it happen….

      Rik

    • Photo: Alex Shenfield

      Alex Shenfield answered on 17 Mar 2015:

      Definitely – though probably not for the better part of a decade or two.

      I think some of the biggest advances in the near future in nano-tech will be in biological systems – nanobiotechnology has already had some success in tissue regeneration.

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