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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory

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To: zamboz who wrote (86215)9/13/2007 10:34:34 AM
From: yard_man  Read Replies (2) of 110194
 
but my point is just this -- the ability to manipulate atoms at molecules at that level is limited and always will be to some extent.

Don't get me wrong -- we've got a lot of wonderful technologies that work down at that level, molecular beam epitaxy for one, but they are all "special cases."

There will be no general, all-purpose "atomic manipulator or constructor" that can be used practically to manufacture custom materials. Right now the most amazing feats at the atomic or molecular level are not accomplished by technology -- they are accomplished by living things.
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