Nanofactories: The Movie
This is going to happen in the next 20 to 25 years according to imminent scientists and engineers working on the projects.
“Productive Nanosystems: From molecules to superproducts” is the first visualizaton of molecular manufacturing that gets the basics right: the vast range of scales, the factory-style organization of the productive machinery, and the physical nature of the processes involved in binding, transforming, and combining molecules to make successively larger components. It’s far from a blueprint, but it depicts a realistic system architecture that is generally in line with the analysis in Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation.
Starting at the human scale, the viewpoint zooms in through magnification factor of a billion to follow molecules as they are sorted, bound, transformed, and joined to form larger and larger components of a billion-processor laptop computer. In line with thinking in the field from 1990 forward, this is accomplished without a single dancing “nanobot”.
John Burch of LizardFire Studios produced the video and did much of the mechanical design. I advised John, did the artwork for the exponential zoom, and worked with Dr. Damian Allis on the design and quantum-chemistry based analysis of the molecular transformations shown in the first nanoscale scene.
The video is available as a high-resolution download [video, 94 MB],
or can be seen here, on YouTube:
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