Hello,
First of all many thanks for the new forum :)
I've quickly read through all the posts and have seen that there is interest in making youtube videos.
Actually I'am planning to do so for quite a while now.
It started with a talk about APM that I gave last year.
( https://cfp.linuxwochen.at/de/LWW14/public/events/115 )
Since I had only about sixteen listeners
I thought about making the slides into a youtube presentation,
so that all the work wouldn't go to waste.
I started out with about 40 slides and improved on them.
Beside collecting relevant images I made many svg info-graphics by myself.
A view of them, can be seen here:
https://www.pinterest.com/lukassuess/atomically-precise-nanotechnology/
The number of slides grew and grew and I've now ended up with a about 200 of them (all german atm) - still growing.
Sadly I realized just very recently that static slides are a catastrophe for youtube - way to boring.
See this test-video catastrophe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y60-80X7q4
the same **** in german: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoFHHtl7S38
(I’m well aware that there is much more wrong with these videos than just the single static image)
As a consequence I plan to switch my focus to making screen-cast videos where I draw stuff and drag and scale images (probably accelerated video with pre-recorded audio) - this way there is more movement on the screen and the viewer always knows where to put her/his attention. (Making animations would be waay too much effort.)
With the slides I ended up with five big main parts which are:
* the basics of working in the small
* a bottom up tour through a nano-factory (as a sensible far term goal - not as easy an easy to reach goal)
* the products of a nano-factory (with focus on solving the great civilisation problems)
* the path to the nano-factory (current relevant developments)
* some possible ecological and economical consequences and miscellaneous
I recently formulated some brand new text for the overall introduction video.
As a side-note: I want the introduction to be so easy that anyone’s grandparents can understand most of it.
Here it is:
(excuse spelling errors I quick & dirty translated it right now)
(I'd be pleased to hear your thoughts about this)
##################
Welcome,
[arouse interest]
Here I want to introduce you to a technology that has greater potential to enrich our world than all achievements of mankind to up until the present day.
[minimal definition]
Specifically this is about a device that can produce all things that you need in your daily live. And that extremely cheap or even completely free. This device is so small that it comfortably fits on a table and so quiet and odour-less that you can run it in your living-room.
[product materials]
All the often gaily coloured or super stylish items that come out of this nano-factory consist of very special materials. Although they consist out of tiniest gemstone pieces they can behave for example like rubber. This is however only one concrete example. In the big whole there are gazillions of new material properties possible which from today’s view appear either utterly uncommon or alien. There are limits though. Biological products like real beef cannot be produced. For this a very different technology is necessary.
[Building material]
Your personal nano-factory of course needs building material. This it can even filter from completely normal air.
To use air as building material your nano-factory needs a lot of energy though. Here this energy comes from a solar-cell-foil. Whereas this foil again also is made from your nano-factory. With that the circle closes. Instead of air you can also run your nano-factory with other easily attainable substances. In this case there is often more energy contained in the building material than you need to run the nano-factory. The nano-factory than works like a generator and it can feed back the excessive energy into the grid or pump it into very special energy storages. I believe you can now correctly guess how you get those very special energy storages.
[demarcation(?)]
Attention: This is not about what today is called "nanotechnology" in the media and also not about swarms of self reproducing nano-robots of the kind of which you can read in some science fiction literature. Instead this is about factual existing up-to-date knowledge about those nano-factories.
Even if we can't yet build such a nano-factory this doesn't rule out that we can understand major properties of it.
To find trustworthy statements about a future nano-factory though without having the possibility to make direct tests or measurements on it we must obey strict discipline. First we are only allowed to use well tested theoretical models and second in all the estimations(?) we do with these models we need to be very careful. In other words: We always need to leave ourselves big safety margins. If we - under strict abidance of these rules - analyse a rough model of a nano-factory we see something astonishing. In spite of the consequent pessimistic estimations we get enormously promising values both for the performance of a nano-factory and the performance of its products.
[topic & target audience]
In this series I want to present for the first time the already existing knowledge of nano-factories in a well illustrated way that is not only accessible for scientists but for the average technologically interested person.
[benefit for the audience & call for action] ~~improvable~~
In this compact introduction I have barely scratched the topic "nano-factory". If you decide to accompany me to dive down deeper in the depths of this technology you can expect an orientation help for the case that I could motivate you to help with the building of the first nano-factory. And on the other side you can look forward to an extremely seldom shown image of the future which is not based on the usual suspects which would be: >>first<< far from reality science fiction >>second<< advertisement for short sighted profit oriented research and development and >>third<< Reports of all the seemingly ineluctable future catastrophes in the public media. In other words you can look forward to a picture of the future which markedly deviates from the traditionally rehashed forecasts for the future.
[orientation help]
If now a nano-factory sounds to fantastic for you I recommend you to start at the "path to the first nano-factory".
If you are impatient and want to know more about the new possibilities which open up with such nano-factories I propose you start with the "products of a nano-factory". If you're interested in the inner processes of a nano-factory then start with the "tour through a nano-factory". And if you want to take your time to hear the whole thing starting from the beginning start with the "basics". At the end I keep myself open a point for speculations about environmental and economic consequences plus further mixed topics.
[call-for-action & thanks & dismissal]
This video series is a work in progress. Please be patient. If I could spark your interest please subscribe to my you-tube channel. I’m always happy about constructive questions and comments. I should also probably point out that the majority of what I’m going to present here is not my own work. Thus I’m going to specify the used sources to the best of my knowledge and belief. If you managed to endure to this point I thank you for your attention.
######
Btw: I'm not really happy with the term "nano-factory" but that's for another topic.
First of all many thanks for the new forum :)
I've quickly read through all the posts and have seen that there is interest in making youtube videos.
Actually I'am planning to do so for quite a while now.
It started with a talk about APM that I gave last year.
( https://cfp.linuxwochen.at/de/LWW14/public/events/115 )
Since I had only about sixteen listeners

so that all the work wouldn't go to waste.
I started out with about 40 slides and improved on them.
Beside collecting relevant images I made many svg info-graphics by myself.
A view of them, can be seen here:
https://www.pinterest.com/lukassuess/atomically-precise-nanotechnology/
The number of slides grew and grew and I've now ended up with a about 200 of them (all german atm) - still growing.
Sadly I realized just very recently that static slides are a catastrophe for youtube - way to boring.
See this test-video catastrophe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y60-80X7q4
the same **** in german: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoFHHtl7S38
(I’m well aware that there is much more wrong with these videos than just the single static image)
As a consequence I plan to switch my focus to making screen-cast videos where I draw stuff and drag and scale images (probably accelerated video with pre-recorded audio) - this way there is more movement on the screen and the viewer always knows where to put her/his attention. (Making animations would be waay too much effort.)
With the slides I ended up with five big main parts which are:
* the basics of working in the small
* a bottom up tour through a nano-factory (as a sensible far term goal - not as easy an easy to reach goal)
* the products of a nano-factory (with focus on solving the great civilisation problems)
* the path to the nano-factory (current relevant developments)
* some possible ecological and economical consequences and miscellaneous
I recently formulated some brand new text for the overall introduction video.
As a side-note: I want the introduction to be so easy that anyone’s grandparents can understand most of it.
Here it is:
(excuse spelling errors I quick & dirty translated it right now)
(I'd be pleased to hear your thoughts about this)
##################
Welcome,
[arouse interest]
Here I want to introduce you to a technology that has greater potential to enrich our world than all achievements of mankind to up until the present day.
[minimal definition]
Specifically this is about a device that can produce all things that you need in your daily live. And that extremely cheap or even completely free. This device is so small that it comfortably fits on a table and so quiet and odour-less that you can run it in your living-room.
[product materials]
All the often gaily coloured or super stylish items that come out of this nano-factory consist of very special materials. Although they consist out of tiniest gemstone pieces they can behave for example like rubber. This is however only one concrete example. In the big whole there are gazillions of new material properties possible which from today’s view appear either utterly uncommon or alien. There are limits though. Biological products like real beef cannot be produced. For this a very different technology is necessary.
[Building material]
Your personal nano-factory of course needs building material. This it can even filter from completely normal air.
To use air as building material your nano-factory needs a lot of energy though. Here this energy comes from a solar-cell-foil. Whereas this foil again also is made from your nano-factory. With that the circle closes. Instead of air you can also run your nano-factory with other easily attainable substances. In this case there is often more energy contained in the building material than you need to run the nano-factory. The nano-factory than works like a generator and it can feed back the excessive energy into the grid or pump it into very special energy storages. I believe you can now correctly guess how you get those very special energy storages.
[demarcation(?)]
Attention: This is not about what today is called "nanotechnology" in the media and also not about swarms of self reproducing nano-robots of the kind of which you can read in some science fiction literature. Instead this is about factual existing up-to-date knowledge about those nano-factories.
Even if we can't yet build such a nano-factory this doesn't rule out that we can understand major properties of it.
To find trustworthy statements about a future nano-factory though without having the possibility to make direct tests or measurements on it we must obey strict discipline. First we are only allowed to use well tested theoretical models and second in all the estimations(?) we do with these models we need to be very careful. In other words: We always need to leave ourselves big safety margins. If we - under strict abidance of these rules - analyse a rough model of a nano-factory we see something astonishing. In spite of the consequent pessimistic estimations we get enormously promising values both for the performance of a nano-factory and the performance of its products.
[topic & target audience]
In this series I want to present for the first time the already existing knowledge of nano-factories in a well illustrated way that is not only accessible for scientists but for the average technologically interested person.
[benefit for the audience & call for action] ~~improvable~~
In this compact introduction I have barely scratched the topic "nano-factory". If you decide to accompany me to dive down deeper in the depths of this technology you can expect an orientation help for the case that I could motivate you to help with the building of the first nano-factory. And on the other side you can look forward to an extremely seldom shown image of the future which is not based on the usual suspects which would be: >>first<< far from reality science fiction >>second<< advertisement for short sighted profit oriented research and development and >>third<< Reports of all the seemingly ineluctable future catastrophes in the public media. In other words you can look forward to a picture of the future which markedly deviates from the traditionally rehashed forecasts for the future.
[orientation help]
If now a nano-factory sounds to fantastic for you I recommend you to start at the "path to the first nano-factory".
If you are impatient and want to know more about the new possibilities which open up with such nano-factories I propose you start with the "products of a nano-factory". If you're interested in the inner processes of a nano-factory then start with the "tour through a nano-factory". And if you want to take your time to hear the whole thing starting from the beginning start with the "basics". At the end I keep myself open a point for speculations about environmental and economic consequences plus further mixed topics.
[call-for-action & thanks & dismissal]
This video series is a work in progress. Please be patient. If I could spark your interest please subscribe to my you-tube channel. I’m always happy about constructive questions and comments. I should also probably point out that the majority of what I’m going to present here is not my own work. Thus I’m going to specify the used sources to the best of my knowledge and belief. If you managed to endure to this point I thank you for your attention.
######
Btw: I'm not really happy with the term "nano-factory" but that's for another topic.