"Do you understand the implications of this?"
"Yes I do, sir."
"This pet project of yours... could become disastrous if it somehow gets out of hand."
"I understand, sir. Hence, I have taken all possible precautions to ensure that nothing can go wrong. For example, the only one who can activate the "Creator" is myself."
"Very well. But remember; whenever there seems to be a foolproof plan, a previously unknown error will suddenly result in disastrous results. I will keep it a secret."
"Thank you, sir."
"It would do you well to not mess up."
"I understand, sir."
One of the occupants of the room stood up from his chair, pushed it back into place, bowed, and left.
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Keitaro Urashima walks into the room, all the while scribbling on a clipboard. Looking to his left, he spots a young brunette working with a raven-haired woman; both dressed in lab coats, and as he checks against his 'to-do list' on the clipboard, decides to address them.
"So, Dr Narusegawa. How is the current experiment going?"
"The project is progressing smoothly, sir. In fact, in a few moments we would be ready to transmute this metal block on the table. Would you like to stay and watch?"
"Why yes, I do. I think it should be interesting."
"I promise it will be sir. Now if only you would come over and stand next to this table and look at the metal block in the controlled environment chamber while I activate the machine."
Naru walks over to the side and punches a few keys in the keyboard located next to the CE chamber, and as she was busy with the keyboard the raven-haired woman began to talk.
"Now sir, what you will be observing is the metal block disappearing into thin air for a few moments after which an plastic block materializes in the space previously occupied by the orange."
Keitaro scribbles something onto his clipboard. "Good, I hope that this works, Dr Aoyama. It would greatly further the project if this succeeds."
Keitaro focuses onto the orange sitting on the table. At this point, Naru had also finished fiddling with the controls, and stood next to Motoko. A container containing what appeared to be grey goo suddenly opened and the grey goo disappeared into nothingness. After a few moments, the metal block on the table too disappeared into nothingness but in the blink of an eye a plastic block materialized in the exact same spot that the orange had previously occupied.
Naru smiled. "Well, that's about the most complex transmuting we are able to do at this stage. But rest assured we will soon be able to do much, much more."
"Very good! This is quite a breakthrough in the field of nanotechnology. I will be reporting on the success to the chief. But for now, please work on refining the process so that it is able to handle more complex transmuting. I'm afraid I must be leaving now, as I have some other teams to check up on. Goodbye Dr Narusegawa, Dr Aoyama."
"Goodbye, sir."
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It is the year 2051. At this point in time, most technologies were vastly improved over their beginning of the century counterparts, and nanotechnology was no exception. On of the pioneers of the field included Seta Noriyasu, Takamichi Takahata, Nagi Springfield, and Haruka Urashima. Together with other close friends, the group managed to produce programmable robots that were measured in single digit nanometers, named nanobots, that effectively allowing humans to control the smallest building blocks of the universe – the individual atom.
However, after that initial jump, the entire project slowed to a crawl, simply because each robot was rather crude and was neither able to perform complex maneuvers nor contain complex instructions. Unfortunately, even though it took a short time for the group to redesign the nanobots to perform complex operations, the data storage sector at that point in time was still far behind other mainstream technology and even the smallest data storage chips with enough memory to store complex operations were far larger than any of the nanobots itself. Because the inability to store instructions more complex than just 'move forward' proved to be a major stumbling block, in the end, the project was put on hold and the group moved on to work on other things.
Years later, data storage finally moved to catch up with the rest of technology, and it didn't take very long for the nanobot project to be started up again. However, since most of the original team had already moved onto and were occupied with other technologies, an entirely new team was assembled to take over the project. Every single one of the new team were greenhorns; they were all just fresh graduates who had majored in nanotechnology at various universities around the world, but one of them was related to a member of the original team, so they could always count on help from the original team.
All six members of the team were enthusiastic about the project, in particular Keitaro Urashima, who had high hopes about using technology in the medical sector. He proposed that nanobots could be used to precisely modify the genetic make up of viruses and bacteria so that they would simple vanish; using nanobots implanted into the body to augment failing organs; implanting nanobots into people and using them as white blood cells. Of course, some may consider this highly unethical, especially since the only way to verify anything was to experiment on humans themselves. As a result, Keitaro's plans never got off the ground, and the team instead concentrated on using nanobot to further other technologies instead. For example, could nanobots be used to further miniaturize contemporary products such as cell phones and music players?
Unknown to all, Keitaro Urashima had recently managed to get the others in team to help him further his own goals. The team was currently making nanobots that could move atoms, thereby restructuring anything and everything, including the human body.
Keitaro plans to somehow use this to destroy bacteria and viruses and genetic material so that deformed births and other aliments never, ever occur. Keitaro had also managed to persuade the commander of the facility where he and his team worked, Seta Noriyasu, also a member of the original team, into keeping his project a secret, because if word of the previously mention unethical experiments soon to be carried out were leaked out, there would be a big hoo-ha and something bad would happen… to all of them.
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