The Doll

“We have heard it in the first part of your speech.” said someone from the audience. “What do you propose instead of machine-tools and automated lines?”

“We offer a completely new shaping technology. Gentlemen, work in this direction is already underway in Europe, and we cannot know how far they have gone forward. Therefore I propose to combine our efforts and to create here,” the speaker tapped a finger on the podium “in the United States the Information Center for the exchange of experience and reliable control over all laboratories in the world, leading such work. This isn’t a reassurance, gentlemen, for the fruits of our research can bring to the whole world and to all of humanity both blessing and infinite evil against which the splitting of the atomic nucleus will seem a miserable laboratory crackling.”

“The case let,” demanded from the audience.

“All right. Let us listen to our institute graduate Tom Brexler. His phantom machines he called engines of creation, but with no less confidence we can call them engines of destruction, too.”

“… badly smelling and lumbering machines are already beginning to seem old-fashioned in the background of integrated circuits and molecular physics. We are proud of the technology that gave us life-saving drugs and desktop computers. However, our spaceships are still primitive, computers’re “stupid”, and medications do not always help to overcome a disease. From ancient times so as to make a product, people used one and only technique: rearrangement of volumes in one or another substance. Diamond and coal, gold and sand, living tissue and cancer – right along cheap out of precious, sick from healthy differed only by way of placing atoms. I’ve already talked about the achievements of genetic engineering, about the construction of DNA molecules. Our works are now in a crucial stage. But, as my colleague said here, we cannot know what stage similar works in European laboratories are currently. I will come back to this issue.

We are on the verge of creating such a technology of forming, that will allow us with our micro or nanomachines – let’s call them assemblers – and nanocomputers penetrate in one taken separately molecule and rearrange the atoms in it at our discretion. Thus, there is a real opportunity to get out of any matter any substance, as well as from a sore living tissue to create a healthy one. As regards the technology for products with adjusted properties, here we do not need metal-cutting equipment. Molecular technology will allow us to collect the desired product atom by atom, molecule by molecule, which would make the production process as environmentally friendly as the cultivation of an apple-tree. In order to get the product from raw materials (anything can be used for raw materials), you need three components: raw materials, assemblers and nanocomputers. The last two, placed in a neutral liquid medium represent a viscous liquid of any color. In contact with raw material work begins, the outcome of which depends on the program laid down in nanocomputers. An assembler that executed its program puts an end to existence. Later assemblers will , so to speak, in replicators, self-replicating nanomachines. Components for these machines, i.e. atoms, do not need in manufacturing – they are given by nature. reborn