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The advanced automation section has mainly focused on automation technologies using robotics and 'macro'-scale systems, as it describes systems that could be achieved with today's technology. However, even more sophisticated and capable technology using {{wp|Molecular_nanotechnology|nano-scale devices}} (at the atomic and molecular scale) are likely to be feasible in the coming decades, that could ultimately give us a similar level of control over matter that we currently have over information using computers. See also related [http://www.molecularassembler.com/Nanofactory/DMS.htm Diamond Mechanosynthesis].
 
The advanced automation section has mainly focused on automation technologies using robotics and 'macro'-scale systems, as it describes systems that could be achieved with today's technology. However, even more sophisticated and capable technology using {{wp|Molecular_nanotechnology|nano-scale devices}} (at the atomic and molecular scale) are likely to be feasible in the coming decades, that could ultimately give us a similar level of control over matter that we currently have over information using computers. See also related [http://www.molecularassembler.com/Nanofactory/DMS.htm Diamond Mechanosynthesis].
  
This is likely to end up being a mixture of top-down engineering techniques related to current {{wp|Semiconductor_device_fabrication|semi-conductor fabrication}} and {{wp|Microelectromechanical_systems|micro-electro-mechanical systems}} (MEMS), true bottom-up molecular engineering and self-assembly, and derivatives from {{wp|biotechnology|biotechnology}}. This is likely to give us systems of unprecedented precision, capability and small size that will further revolutionise manufacturing, power generation, agriculture and medicine.
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This is likely to end up being a mixture of top-down engineering techniques related to current {{wp|Semiconductor_device_fabrication|semi-conductor fabrication}} and {{wp|Microelectromechanical_systems|micro-electro-mechanical systems}} (MEMS), true bottom-up molecular engineering and self-assembly, and derivatives from {{wp|biotechnology|biotechnology}}. This is likely to give us systems of unprecedented precision, capability and small size that will further revolutionise manufacturing, power generation, agriculture and medicine.
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Nano-scale devices that could be sent inside the human body as a medical intervention are being developed. Mice have already been cured of type-I diabetes with this method<sup>[http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100409/Nanotechnology-based-vaccine-cures-mice-with-type-1-diabetes.aspx]</sup>.  
  
 
''(However as interesting and capable as advanced nanotechnology is likely to be, it is not actually a requirement for the development of an advanced post-scarcity society, which can be achieved with today's technology)''.
 
''(However as interesting and capable as advanced nanotechnology is likely to be, it is not actually a requirement for the development of an advanced post-scarcity society, which can be achieved with today's technology)''.

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The advanced automation section has mainly focused on automation technologies using robotics and 'macro'-scale systems, as it describes systems that could be achieved with today's technology. However, even more sophisticated and capable technology using nano-scale devices 11px-Wikipedia_logo.jpg (at the atomic and molecular scale) are likely to be feasible in the coming decades, that could ultimately give us a similar level of control over matter that we currently have over information using computers. See also related Diamond Mechanosynthesis.

This is likely to end up being a mixture of top-down engineering techniques related to current semi-conductor fabrication 11px-Wikipedia_logo.jpg and micro-electro-mechanical systems 11px-Wikipedia_logo.jpg (MEMS), true bottom-up molecular engineering and self-assembly, and derivatives from biotechnology 11px-Wikipedia_logo.jpg. This is likely to give us systems of unprecedented precision, capability and small size that will further revolutionise manufacturing, power generation, agriculture and medicine.

Nano-scale devices that could be sent inside the human body as a medical intervention are being developed. Mice have already been cured of type-I diabetes with this method[1].

(However as interesting and capable as advanced nanotechnology is likely to be, it is not actually a requirement for the development of an advanced post-scarcity society, which can be achieved with today's technology).