Science Will End Us All

I've always thought that it would be great to start a pyramid scheme, with a twist. Instead of an unsustainable good or service, the payoff would be a series of books on how to start and upkeep your own pyramid scheme. I honest-to-God dreamed about it when I realized that no one was capitalizing on the folks who run these things. And this way, the only people whose money you're stealing are morons (that's Social Darwinism for ya) or would-be crooks. I'm totally serious. Don't take this idea from me, it's one of the good ones.

Hey, it turns out nanotechnology may be possible as soon as 2010; 2030 at the latest. This could very well come from the innovation of fabricators, which will construct human-scale products for use within months of their debut. This is because nanotechnology, like "artificial intelligence" (I'm skeptical), will grow exponentially. Of course, since everything will be engineered at the smallest possible scale, it has been theorized that an engine strong enough to power a car could be fit into a cubic centimeter, and a supercomputer could be fit into less than a cubic millimeter. Because everything would be aligned near-perfectly on a small scale (like a diamond is naturally arranged), products will increase in structural integrity, with certain materials becoming up to 100 times stronger than steel per pound. Another possible outcome of this seemingly too-good-to-be-true science is that the cost of everything will go down. It also means more union-made products to buy, and less dependence on overseas (unregulated) labor. You know what else? This whole thing means means we're all within a few decades of a gray goo scenario. There's really only one rational response to this.

P.S.: If you go to "The Scream" Wikipedia page, there's a photo of the thieves. A photo of them mid-heist. For real.

All info thanks to the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology.