Nanotechnology, which was revealed by Norio Taniguchi at the University of Tokyo in 1974, is rapidly emerging technologies based on more advanced sensitivity and downsizing of existing technologies. In the future, this technology will probably include structural machinery and mechanisms with its nano-sized dimensions, called Molecular nanotechnologies (MNT). Nanotechnology is used to measure a measurement unit called nanometer (short form nm). Each measurement has 1 billion nm. Each NM is only three to five atoms wide, i.e. approximately 40000 times smaller than the thickness of an average human hair.
One aspect of nanotechnology
Super small computers (bacteria-sized)
Super computers with a cubic sugar size and billions of laptop power
It is possible to make nano-sized desktop models of a certain size that are trillions more powerful than today's computers.
The high potential of nanotechnology is revealed through the laws of quantum physics. At this stage, quantum physics laws are activated in nano sizes and enable new applications in optical, electronic, magnetic storage, computing, catalyst and other areas.
Nanotechnology is often referred to as general-purpose technology. Because when it is accomplished, nanotechnology will have an important place in almost all sectors and in all areas of society. Better made, longer-lasting, cleaner, safer and smarter products can be use at home, in communication, in medicine, in transportation, in agriculture and in all areas of the industry.
Imagine a medical instrument that can be found without spreading cancer cells by circulating in the human body, or it is much lighter than steel, but it is a material that is ten times stronger than it is.
Why should nanotechnology be used with caution and sensitivity? Nanotechnology, such as electricity or computers, will offer better possibilities at every stage of our lives. However, as with every new technology, nanotechnology has two-way use, i.e. commercial use and a lot more powerful weapons and surveillance tools due to nanotechnology in the military field. This is why nanotechnology also brings some risks along with the benefits for people.
One of the important sides of nanotechnology is that it does not only offer better products but also more improved production tools. A computer can copy data files as much as you want at a very low cost or for free. It can make it as easy and inexpensive to replicate the same files as the same computer example in nanotechnology. That is why nanotechnology is referred to as the next industrial revolution for many.
Nanotechnology will not only allow the production of many high-quality products at a very low cost, but also to make new nano factories at low cost and at the same high speed. The reason why Nano technology is called a rapidly increasing technology is the ability to reproduce its own production tools.
Nanotechnology; It provides a faster, lower cost and clean production system. Production tools can be reproduced by multiplying, so several nano factories will produce billions of factories within a few weeks. This is a revolutionary, innovative, powerful and potentially very dangerous or useful technology.
How soon can all these developments happen?
The general estimates are that it may be between 20 and 30 years or even later. But the rapid advances in optical, nano lithography, mechanical chemistry and 3d prototyping technologies can shorten this time. What is important here is not only how such an improvement can be done in a short time, but also how ready we are to this new technology.
Maybe when we ask ourselves some of the following questions, we can better perceive it. Who will possess this technology?
Is this too limited or will anyone be able to access it?
What will he do to close the gap between the poor and the rich?
How are dangerous weapons to be controlled and prevented from being compromised? Although most of these questions were revealed 10 years ago, it still doesn't seem to have found an answer.
It's hard to tell exactly when this technology is going to be implemented, and one reason is that hidden military or industrial development programmes are being conducted with a great secret outside of a normal citizen's knowledge. We cannot accurately say that nanotechnology will be developed in the next five or ten years in full scale. But we have to be prepared for all the scenarios and closely follow nanotechnology and development.