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  • i almost start realizing, how advance life would be in year 3000. & we think we are so advance at this 21 century :(

  • Science is unending and unstoppable !

  • Please, don't squirt butterflies!

  • What is the song at the END???

  • Well. Thats my PhD sorted then :)

  • this film deserves its price for winning the best short film at the Scinema film festival 2010...

  • ow...

  • but the true question remains: Will it blend?

  • @WalkingOnFire1 Certainly, but only if you use the new NanoBlendTec

  • Anyone recognize that guy at 03:54 sitting bored in the back?

  • nano science will bottom line be used for evil, it will be used to thin the population of this earth by 90%, those who live to enjoy it cannot wait for the rest of us to die off, to live in their Satanic Utopian Fantasy. But i believe that when God is finished with the evil men of this Earth we will live on a renewed planet and live as Kings forever, I choose believing this over the Satanic Spiritual progressives that seek the Anti Christ as their Savior and even now are doing his will..

  • @persevere67, dude lay off the bible babble. there's not going to be some cataclysmic armageddon which will result in satanic blah blah blah. Yes people are going to die as result of technology (never religion, never going to happen, right? ;/ )...the computer your typing on, yep theres once just like it that killed a dozen people last night in the middle east. 90 % of what? lol. its the mice behind the machine and the fairytale behind the mice that kills people.

  • I can't wait for the future

  • can't get here soon enough. Go science.

  • does this means that only light has colour? and our clothes and other stuff are actually red or blue because the nano particles only let light or blue be "absorbed"?

  • Wow that Lego guy is sturdy, just saying.

    Nano lego anyone?

    I would buy.

  • So in short, you take all the molecules structures from an object that makes a certant effect and manipulate it into other objective structures..

  • DNA is two billionths of a meter, so dismal the human brain cannot fathom. If we were virus size DNA wouldn't seem so big. The nearest star is 4 light years away. A distance that would take 4,000 years to reach. Our perception of size is relative to the evolutionary conditions of our ancestors and by what we can presently observe. Perhaps the universe isn't so big. Perhaps there are species, things, out there that would perceive the size of our planet the same way we perceive the size of DNA. 

  • 15:32 That means absolutely no privacy, even on the thoughts level? :(

  • @propeng1 I think privacy must end. We are going to reach a level of technological advancement were any individual will have access to incredibly powerful digital, 'nano' and biological tools. This will give us the ability to do amazing things, but also presents great danger if misused. A completely honest and open society is the best check against malcontent individuals. And beyond that, an open society strengthens the positive feedback of technology, further increasing the pace of advancement

  • Little Big Planet, anyone?

  • Great video - 1,173 likes - and 6 religious idiots who thought this is blasphemy viewed this video!

  • you know a documentary is British when they throw in some dubstep in the credits :P

  • Ahhh! Stephen Fry at his most soothing whilst being totally captivating!!

  • science set us free!!

  • "..people like to measure things.." who else lughed?

  • All I know is, Nano-technology is a great research for mankind, and there are 6 idiots who viewed this video (number of dislikes). Must be religious nut-heads.

  • anyone from mrs.james science class? XD not watching thsi to btw ;d

  • OMG all I can think of is little sackboy smiling when I watch this XD

  • @zombiemouse same

  • Why does Stephen's voice give me the urge to go hitchiking with my sub-etha net device and a towel ?

  • brilliant film.

  • This movie just goes to show that we stand to see possibly the biggest revolution in science and technology ever. This scares and excites me.

  • @CobaltBlueLion don't be scared. fear breeds ignorance, and if you want to live through what may come of this, you cannot be ignorant :) just ride the wave, man.... ride the wave

  • 2:03 Equipment used is Zeiss LEO 1530 Gemini FEG-SEM and costs as low as a sweet beachside condo with pool!

  • How is it that i learn so much about nanotechnology in a 20 minute video, and yet they make us spend weeks and weeks on things like Shakespeare in school? The internet is a much better and efficient teacher than ANY of my school teachers are.

  • @blackalbino360 agreed keep info OPEN SOURCE

  • @blackalbino360 shakespeare teaches you about humanity, nanotechnology doesn't

  • @blackalbino360 dude its not the way teachers teach..

    its the way you hear them and the the amount of interest you have in the subject that is to be taught..

    look, Im from India, here the problems i and any other student faces is usually because of pattern of the syllabi we have but we mostly blame the teacher for not teaching well..

    my advice fro you is if you wanna really help the future students like you then you can get into the educational system and change it & justify it!

  • OH MY GAWD... Science ftw

  • Great video, Fry's narration was awesome in it. However, what is the name of that song at the end credits?

  • @Indiecrafter Seriously, would love to know what song that is.

  • Thanks for all the positive feedback - massively appreciated: all the music is by Aaron Audio - that last track is called Bread Knife. To listen to more of his stuff search for peaceloveaudio on myspace or aaronaudio on mixcloud

  • Why was the brain surgeon only MR?

  • Extremely motivational... almost orgasmic!

  • 6 people have nano brains

  • I wonder if digital characters think similarly about their pixels.

  • THAT WATER BOTTLE IS AWESOME LOL! but when that guy drank his pee i almost barfed LOL

    NANOSCIENCE ROCKS

  • little big planet

  • Damn shame ill be dead before any of this actually comes into practical use in everyday life. Have fun future!

  • @Solomon1084

    i know right! and to think there are people out there who want to LIMIT science.

  • My problem is what about nano tech used for bad, what about those who would want to weaponize it and use it to cause harm. It is a wonderful new...well I guess old world to explore(but one we haven't explored until now), I just hope no one ever helps anyone to use it for the wrong purposes.

  • @t3hsniper this is consern for all of science

  • Video got more awesome the longer I watched it. 

  • that was really helpful, thumbs up :)

  • i want that water bottle

  • Mr lahey liked this video

  • @rebelwolf2000 So your saying that nature would be so tired of being screwed with and copied that it would send storms and wild animals and natural disasters at us?

  • 666 sounds more real

  • witty, and informative in a never-boring atmosphere. :D

  • Well done.

  • this made me understand a lot of things i never quite could before

  • nanotechnology will change the world in a way never thought possible

    everything will be in abundance

  • I think this "age" would be our last.

  • Nano technology, Stephen Fry, and Lego ftw :P

  • yay for stephen fry!

  • I'm only 24 and I hope that in my time, I will be able to see this nano technology at work. I would like to be able to live longer and look younger. I would love to be around for my kids and my kids. Kids.

  • @ScubaSteve57 So the grand vision of nanotech is to turn the planet earth into the Capitol from the hunger games, hopefully less totalitarian.

  • Fry sounds like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Which is a good thing.

  • @adamxmada He is that guy,

  • I just got shivers, partially because of the awesomeness of nanotech, and partially because of Stephen Fry's silken voice.

  • @simplythemediocre I got shivers because the guy drank his own pee.

  • @markubiak there was a floater in there too. it probably tasted so bad

  • @12:46

    Wow that guy lost all my respect as a scientist.

    My response:

    Uhhh, no. They are called super lenses, and they have a negative refraction index. So eventually we'll be able to see pretty well anything. Besides. "Ever" is an extremely long time.

  • @Innomen You do know that he isn't using an optical microscope, right? Super lenses let the optical microscopes overcome a limit that doesn't exist with electron microscopes, the diffraction limit. So they would not help in any way.

    The reason we cant see anything smaller is that electrons have the smallest wavelenght we know of, yet so "Ever" is probably untrue as we might find something smaller later on. But not with super lenses.

  • MGS4 explains another use of nanotechnology quite well.

  • Nanotechnology, awesome!

  • blew my minddddd

  • goddamn i love the sound of stephen fry's voice

  • Masterpiece

  • 16:50 dubstep

  • Nice touch with the Dubstep at the end

  • I would usually stop half-way through because I don't enjoy documientaries that are longer than about 8-10 minutes, but damn this was really interesting. Loved it.

  • amazing.

  • "Imagine a small implant (equivalent to your mobile phone) that communicates directly with your brain as the internet does with the rest of the world. If I want to think a connection with my son who is in the Himalayas. I could think the connection and just as your mobile phone does it would dial up the device inside my son, and I would talk to him, see him, feel his emotions. We would be infinitely connected to each other and the information that surrounds us"

  • i hope this for a childrens program or something. otherwise fry is being very condescending in his tone

  • @niall777 The tone at the end seems to suggest it is kids programming. At least like middle school to high school kids.

  • great video, Stephen Fry is the best narrator around!

  • I hit the dislike button on accident!!! D: Im so sorry!! :(

    i clicked like to counteract it but the dislike still got recorded :/

  • Medical Registrar, not Mister!

  • It's the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book narrator!

  • The brain surgeon is introduced as MR Stephen Price. Glad to know you don't need an MD to wear scrubs.

  • @g1nach4ng Lol

  • @g1nach4ng Surgeons are always addressed as Misters not Doctors. Some tradition thing.

  • cool

  • Things act differently on the nanoscale due to various things,, gravity, quantum mechanics, casimir forces, the list goes on.

  • @TehNewV cheese

  • things behave differently on a nanoscale due to the casimir forces.

  • song name?

  • Never thought I'd be hearing Stephen Fry and dubstep in the same thing...

  • @jrs2003 i did.

  • Imagine using molecular-structures or Atoms as our running software or machines? Imagine what you an do with that type of advancement of technology? If a person can think of this, and we can already MOVE ATOMS piece by piece (very expensive process). Imagine what technologial possibilities we can do. Turning our computer into a rubber band. The possibilites you can do.

  • Amazing, I Love Science to no end. It just baffles me that people in the world are currently worried about such petty things like religion when they could be a part of the technological world and help speed up and create new things.

  • badass DnB at the end...

  • best

  • "...the smallest thing you can ever see with a microscope..." < not true. Only the darkside deals in absolutes.

  • And all this was supposed to have evolved by "chance".. Right....

    Anyway, very great video. The amount of details and complexity in this is inconceivable. The world around us clearly isn't what most of us believe.

  • @Antilli Maybe not humans, that could be due to alien visits, magic mushrooms, and/or that theory we're originally from mars. All three explain the complexity and size of the human brain.

  • @Antilli You can't have a good grasp at evolution if you think it was just "chance"

  • hey I love that filer-bottle thingy! is so cool!

    amazing science.

  • great video!

  • Nano technology....wonderful possibilities for mankind. Too bad there are those who would use such knowledge for nefarious purposes, like the WTC incident with the use of nano thermite.

  • What is the level beyond the nano?

  • @everybodyisnuts there are so many levels beyond nano. pico,femto, atto are a few levels to mention.

  • Great vid

  • I have been meditating for 5 months everyday and have already learned how to speak telepathically with friends and feel their emotions. You don't need to implant a little nano phone into you brain. You ready have this ability inside you!

    The bible says god created man in 7 days. Maybe E.T.s came to earth and created human beings with the use of nanotechnology.

  • @zachs454 Shut up. It's people like you that are the reason we aren't already off this rock by now..

  • This video is awesome, everything I have ever dream of is suddenly happening. Share this video to everyone you know cause we are in a moment of the humankind where we need to be conscious of how the world is about to change.

  • Excellent . Can ANYONE look at this and NOT believe in an INTELLIGENT DESIGNER? Yea, it just all happened and came together by CHANCE.sure.

  • How can ANYONE look at this and NOT believe in an INTELLIGENT DESIGNER? Yea, it just all happened and came together by CHANCE.sure.

  • @physicsandreason, it even mentions this in the video 03:10

    "More surface, means more area for reactions. This is why powdered sugar dissolves faster than sugar cubes. Big lumps of Aluminum are not very reactive, but NANO-particles of Aluminum are SO REACTIVE they can be used in rocket fuel..."

    Aluminum is one of two main ingredients in Thermite, and I've read the paper by Niels Harret and Dr. Jones. It's a shame more scientists aren't brave enough to stand up for this...

  • @physicsandreason, it even mentions this in the video 03:10

    "More surface, means more area for reactions. This is why powdered sugar dissolves faster than sugar cubes. Big lumps of Aluminum are not very reactive, but NANO-particles of Aluminum are SO REACTIVE they can be used in rocket fuel..."

    Aluminum is one of two main ingredients in Thermite, and I've read the paper by Niels Harret and Dr. Jones. It's a shame more scientists aren't brave enough to stand up for this...

  • The more of these videos I watch the less doubt in my mind I have of intelligent design really being the origin of all things, its too perfect to be a mistake, not

    billions of billions of years of time could make life from particles but an engineer could.

  • The more of these videos I watch the less doubt in my mind I have of intelligent design really being the origin of all things, its too perfect to be a mistake, not

    billions of billions of years of time could make life from particles but an engineer could.

  • @tgambill

    Restricted, narrow minded implementation of technology by nefarious, fascistic agencies will be no match for the free, dynamic, open source technology of the post-national cyber culture. You think these technologies are created in some evil lab for governments? Think again. Hobbyists create these technologies.

  • Mork from ork said it well, Nano nano.

  • we gotta change our old habits of how we act, treat one another, the way we eat, how we do things, and even how we think..... the race of humanity depends on it .. this vid is great stephen fry is awesum!!

  • Nanotechnology hydrogen bomb for the win!! jk

  • we gotta change our old habits of how we act, treat one another, the way we eat, how we do things, and even how we think..... the race of humanity depends on it .. this vid is great stephen fry is awesum!!

  • we gotta change our old habits of how we act, treat one another, the way we eat, how we do things, and even how we think..... the race of humanity depends on it .. this vid is great stephen fry is awesum!!

  • your moms hair is so short when she takes a shower she gets brain washed

  • Pandora's box

  • humans are stupid, this is Pandora's box

  • humans are stupid, this is Pandora's box

  • Helps to better understand the significance of all that nano-thermite the independent physicists found in the WTC dust. Ordinary thermite is just an incendiary, but Nano-thermite is a high tech military explosive invented just a few years before 9/11. It could have been easily applied as a sol-gel with workers perhaps not even knowing what was in their paint. Regardless of how it got there one thing is certain; that nano-thermite found in the dust, did not come from a cave in Afghanistan.

  • @physicsandreason, it even mentions this in the video @ 03:10.

    "More surface, means more area for reactions. This is why powdered sugar dissolves faster than sugar cubes. Big lumps of Aluminum are not very reactive, but NANO-particles of Aluminum are SO REACTIVE they can be used in rocket fuel..."

    Aluminum is one of two main ingredients in Thermite... and I've read the paper by Niels Harret and Dr. Jones. It's a shame more scientists aren't brave enough to stand up for this...

  • @AlienScientist Yup- that surface area makes it a high explosive. Most are either ignorant of the physics of 9/11 or afraid to think about it because of where it leads. Nano-thermite, that high tech military explosive found all in the dust confirms all the other science, like the iron microspheres, and the free fall acceleration of WTC 7, impossible with a jet fuel/office fire. "When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains no matter how improbable, must be the truth." Visit AE911truth

  • @physicsandreason

    >implying independent physicists found nano-thermite in wtc dust

  • NaNo Art would be cool to see!

  • Just some random question.

    Would you bet against Sir. Isaac?

    He had suggested exactly the same as this video discribes.

    Understanding the Technological Fantasia that is and will be.

  • However, one thing that WILL be revolutionary is true drug targeting. Imagine a small protein sphere (30 nm) that is not attacked by the human defense systems and contains heavily radioactive material (for example). Equipping the outer surface of this protein with recognition receptors will lead the material (in your body) towards e.g. cancer cells and bombard those.

    True antiviral medication could be possible in this way as well.

  • excellent film. I have a Ph D in nanotech myself; some remarks:

    the AFM tip engineering is probably never going to happen since the manipulation of single atoms just isnt quick enough.

    also, the (spontaneous) self assembly of smaller bits into a larger structure is much better done by nature than by man. It turns out to be exceedingly tricky. We can, for example, not reproduce the self assembly of the simplest virus by synthetic means.

  • very cool

  • its all good until some lab assistant turns himself into a human fly, LOL

  • They have misused it. It is called Nanobots; now link with the RFID,HAARP, ELF, GWEN and chemtrails with Aluminum Oxide. Now link this with Mind control and tracking. have fun. The technology of implants for mind control goes back to 1973. Do the linkage with Verichips and implantations and some very distrubing applications or the real use of them

  • im with you

  • @tgambill

    Restricted, narrow minded implementation of technology by nefarious, fascistic agencies will be no match for the free, dynamic, open source technology of the post-national cyber culture. You think these technologies are created in some evil lab for governments? Think again. Hobbyists create these technologies.

  • The technology of implants for mind control goes back to 1973.

  • OH my god. i am interested. i feel like its fun. exciting. thrilling. exploring a new world in every way you look. macro or in this case...micro...wait. nano. thank you

  • I enjoy documentaries like this

  • Take the red pill

  • This may sound pessimistic but it was prophetized ...In the last days cience shall

    be abundant, is it that time now?

  • This is so cool. I used to work in a nanolab like this. I miss that job so much. It was wonderful going to work everyday and learning about all the new science.

  • I doubt us humans will ever stop advancing; that has always been our nature. Theres still plenty of things to unfold; but some or most we will never understand...

  • Как жаль что мы ничего этого не увидим =(

  • Am i the only one uneasy with the idea of a marriage between cellphone and our brain? Will there be a silent mode? ;-)

  • whats the song at the end, straight fire.

    I'm so glad my college finally built a nano tech building.

    Stumbled from F-town, AR.

  • Fantastic! Just imagining the abilities is thrilling! :)

  • Very intresting, but if misused, very,very scary !

  • They have misused it. It is called Nanobots; now link with the RFID,HAARP, ELF, GWEN and chemtrails with Aluminum Oxide. Now link this with Mind control and tracking. have fun.

  • it's becoming obvious that humans can achieve whatever they set their minds to.

    nanomolecular cell-healing in 40 years, synthetic intelligences in 30, and human cloning in 20.

    the question isn't so much "how will we survive", but more "where do we stop".

  • @Dconquist Sorry, but I do believe Synthetic Intelligences are being practiced today.

    Cloning is also possible, yet illegal thanks to united nations.

  • @Dconquist: we don't stop really.. as long as we still survive we will push through to anything. There will be prohibitions or restrictions but our projects will eventually become into being even as an outlaw. So have fun with your life rather than asking stupid questions like "where do we stop?"

  • @Dconquist I intend to bring us nanomolecular cell healing much sooner than that.

  • @Dconquist The ninth dimension.

  • @Dconquist Why stop? :D

  • @Dconquist also ask who will get this technology first. when we can make anything out of anything, resources could become extremely scarce. and in the wrong hands, this technology could be used for personal gain at the expense of the commonwealth. be ready to start a new planet with me :D

  • @valeo626 So from what you said the worst case scenario is that some elites shut down nanotech research and re form it so they will have utter control over everyone else because they have the nanotech but nobody else does and use it to create illusions of scarcity and enforce monopolies, plus to spy on ppl?

  • Just incredible , The potiential of nano , Is just mindblowing , And Its within grasp of our lifetime , No doubt in the next 50 years , Life will change as we know it . Forever . People will live for 100s of years , and we will better ourselfs and our world , But Will It backfire ?

  • isn't every generation experiencing the greatest leap in technological history?  haha

  • This proves that people are the dumbest creatures that exist......

  • Please... Don't squirt butterflies.