At that point, if MNT is not already widely available, it will be so useful, there will be strong pressure to develop it as tremendous aid to military capability. In conventional conflicts, the improvements in logistics, miniaturization, development and would give an overwhelming advantage to the possessor of such technology, both in preparation and in actual combat. Small, widely available, cheap surveillance devices would allow an unprecedented invasion of privacy by governments, criminals and neighbors. Such research adds steadily to the technological toolbox, leading to improved products and occasionally to new industries.

Such research adds steadily to the technological toolbox, leading to improved products and occasionally to new industries. Each major risk should be studied in detail. Independent MNT development programs multiply many of the risks, including the risk of necessary regulations and technical restrictions being bypassed. The final stages of development will occur too quickly for solutions to evolve. Ultimately, control of the technology could be lost, and regions with excessive regulation be sidelined.

Attempts to restrict proliferation generate oppressive or even abusive regulation. The capital of manufacturing will be negligible by todays standards, and manufacturing capacity can be doubled in matter of hours. MNT development appears inevitable for two reasons. Small selfcontained foraging selfreplicating systems gray goo appear to be theoretically possible, and might be released by terrorists, saboteurs or even irresponsible hobbyists. decade from it might be possible for only 100 million, within the reach of many corporations and nations. small and pretested set of nanomachines, built into nanoblocks, can be combined in many ways to make vast array of products.

Todays nanotech research is mainly concerned with building small structures that have novel properties. See for the latest work. Each major risk should be studied in detail. The final stages of development will occur too quickly for solutions to evolve. Ultimately, control of the technology could be lost, and regions with excessive regulation be sidelined. In developing MNT, it be that the safest course is single, international development effort, leading to technology that can be widely distributed and carefully administeredwith tight technological controls in place to limit its use.

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