zidane1strife
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Programmable matter?!?
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Legion said:
Then what did you mean when you wrote he was the diarrhea splatter of the techno world? Please explain to me how or why I shouldn't construe that as a direct insult.
Legion said:
Then use an emoticon or something to indicate that you were being light-hearted or tongue-in-cheek.
Legion said:Ja meine führer
Grrrrrrrr. . . .
zidane1strife said:
I'd give this 200 years. Definitely possible if you think about what matter is, and the "solidity" of matter. Start messing with atomic bonds and rearranging atoms, and voila, you can turn anything into anything. But we'd need a seriously advanced form of nanotech to pull this off. Yea, I think I'll go with 200 years.
zidane1strife
Banned
Well, I think if we take other dev.s into account, and if all goes well, it could very well be available before the end of this century.
Legion that was naughty , anyway with time the truth will be revealed... and those who came about in a matter of a few hundred thousand years, will most likely be revealed to share many a things more than most imagined with those that came before them....
Legion that was naughty
, anyway with time the truth will be revealed... and those who came about in a matter of a few hundred thousand years, will most likely be revealed to share many a things more than most imagined with those that came before them.... I think people read far to much into nano-technology and quantum computers. I've spent the past few weeks in one of my subjects hearing about nano-technology and using the sol-gel process to create new. Now he is a brilliant lecturer he has his Doctorate in Science ( No I'm not talking about a PhD in science ) and has had several papers published in nature in past. Though in some of research he has supervised they are just finding ways to simply produce tubular metal oxide structures. Now if we are ever going to build nano-machines we are going to need build these sorts of structures at an exact size maybe you could loose a layer of atoms or 2 in the length or circumference but this is still only a tube. To build complex machinery to repair are own cells that people keep going on about we are going to need far far more complex structures. Though at the same time there are heaps of places where nano-technology is making a big difference we just don't realise. On quantum computer people keep saying how they are going to run billions of times faster this is true but only for selected cases generally most functions that are done in computers are add, multiply, compare, jump and moving of data which computers are hardly going to accelerate. We probably will be using quantum computers in the not to distant future but it will only be doing simple classical computing.
zidane1strife
Banned
Indeed, but remember we don't have to start from the ground-up, the guy behind celera wants to create artificial organisms. Bio-tech is real-world nano-tech, and we're already seeing what gm is doing with bacteria, from extracting energy from waste processing, to effectively manufacturing cheaply many previously expensive molecules. With the exponential increase in cell knowledge that's currently taking place, it's now only a matter of time.
As for classical non-bio just today I saw a working nano-elevator in the news... most complex non-bio nano-machina yet.
I can't wait, one day, we'll be able to grow structures, and stuff to use in our homes, with no pollution. At the same time we'll be able to grow organs for organ transplants, meat to save the animals, and improve them all, amongst other things.
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