[LINK] Of nomads and nanotech [Was: 'New mobile phones will double as credit cards']

[Adam Todd]

At 08:16 AM 29/04/2007, David Boxall wrote:
>Kim Holburn wrote:
>>
>>On 2007/Apr/28, at 10:16 AM, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>>>Ivan Trundle wrote:
>...
>>>I notice that my local Telstra Shop (Albury) has an in-store clear 
>>>dump bin for discarded mobile phones.
>>
>>Actually I believe it's the law now that companies selling phones 
>>have to take them and the batteries back for "recycling" or "proper 
>>disposal" or whatever.
>An interesting sidelight (pun intended) 
><http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1907341.htm>:
>"People also wanted the units to be able to charge up their mobile phones"
>
>The focus of molecular nanotechnology is the manufacture of goods 
>from the molecular level.  To me, the more interesting promise is 
>the opposite: destruction to that level.  If we could dismantle 
>stuff down to individual atoms, it would be much easier to recycle 
>the raw materials.  It would be the end of trash.

Hang on, if you broke it down to atomic level and dematerialised it, 
could you not them transmit it to another location and rematerlise ist?

Ahhh, the Transporter!

No not in our Oil Rich Life time!  Not with the A380 and new Airbus 
planes in the billions of dollars per order range.