NanoWar

The main part in the discussion between Drexler and Smalley came down to whether or not a self replicating nanobot was able to be created. The scientist are not worried about the ways these nanobots are able to be produced rather than defending their reputations. The more in depth the arguments are made, the more their reputations are at risk. Smalley does a great job at showing ideas of how these nanobots can be achieved by using already existing nanostructures in order to manipulate molecules. Drexler's reminding of the original idea of the self-duplicating nanobots shows that his original argument to hold true in the end. In order to develop trustfulness, Smalley is a university professor and has also won a Noble Prize in Chemistry. For Drexler, he has done research with Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and also has his Ph.D. With Drexler's work, he started to come off the original idea of created a self-reproducing nanobot which Smalley pointed out in the following argument. Smalley seemed to have a kind of childish, not-ah . . . yeah-hah, air in his second argument about the fatty/sticky fingers of the nanobots. In the end I would side with Smalley because the whole point of the argument was whether self-replicating nanobots were able to be created. Even though Smalley could have gone about it with less of an in-your-face approach, he did defend his side in the end.