Economic+and+social+factors

__**Economic side of things:**__ In a world ruled by money and business, many people would laugh at the thought of only working for fun. However oddly enough there are people that think a world like this may be possible through nanotechnology and personal molecular nano-manufacturing. Theoretically if every home on Earth possessed a personal Nanobot factory that would merely be the size of a small desk then many jobs may disappear overnight. A Nanobot factory is a relatively small box that is filled with nanobots. As nanobots work on a molecular scale they are able to construct objects far more accurately than the hand of man, so if the Factory had a input screen where one could simply add a design blueprint, to which the nanobots then created from inserted matter, then many if not all assembly line jobs would instantly be lost. Now as the possibility of robots taking over jobs is very far from reality, there is no way to tell economic damage that may be caused. Jobs however would also begin to be created. Industrial design would now be more important than ever. As the power of creation has become privatised people could create personal objects or items that may be sold either in solid already made form or as a computer design. Now in this possible reality imagine if suddenly after 30 years of nano-manufacturing a problem occurred where the nanobots are infected with a computer virus causing them to shut down or malfunction. With it having been so long since the need for builders it would be hard to know what may occur, but one possibility is that the world would come to a standstill. It would be equivalent to all computers on Earth simultaneously shutting down semi-permanently. The economic as well as social blunders would be catastrophic.

**__Social side of things:__** C ****ars constructed from a metal made on a molecular level may be stronger and more capable of taking damage sustained in accidents that would normally have wrecked a car and killed the occupants. **
 * Nano-manufacturing and nanobot factories have the ability to make objects and items that are more efficient, better looking and possibly stronger. So there is a high chance that if these factories became publicly available that many household items would be reconstructed. There may even be a type of competitiveness to the quality and design of household objects if everyone is able to design it themselves.
 * Computers were once so large that they would fill an entire room, yet at the same time they were only as ‘smart’ and capable of a calculator today. Since the dawn of computing they have been slowly decreasing in size and increasing in power and ability. With information being stored into nano-scale hard disk drives and other computer parts the size of an ant it is highly possible that an entire desktop computer could be run from something the size of a single key on a keyboard. With computers so small, laptops and other computing systems could all become portable enough to fit inside a pocket. Computer screens however have been increasing in size and quality but becoming light weight. One thought for computer screens is that maybe if a swarm of nanobots were released into the air, each one could light up and act as pixel, they would be weightless for the person and high quality because of the small size and sheer amount in the swarm. **