'It's like painting with atoms'... Watch how boffins form armies of simple micron-sized bots from a silicon wafer Millions of tiny moving robots, each as small as the width of an average human hair, can be crafted from a four-inch silicon wafer, according to new research. A team of eggheads at Cornell University presented their work at the American Physical Society Physics March Meeting in Boston this week. They described the laborious …
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A little something for Thomases to Doubt and Deny Themselves the Pleasures and Rewards, Well Deserved and Thoroughly Enjoyed for More Future Displays Really Ported in Servering the Simplest Satisfaction for AIMasterCommand and Control Exchanges.
Now that is realised, is AI not much better Kith and Kin with Heavenly Skin in at the Beginning of the Views to be Fed to You by news and foreign pictures?
Keep IT and AI Simple ...... Show Fab Futures ..... We're surely All Now Done with Drab and Duplicitous Pasts.
Or is that still too complicated to comprehend and acknowledge as Perfect Sense.:-)
:-) I'm now gonna try out that new funky/flaky facility available here ..... GLTR (glitter) v0.5 ...... to ponder whether it should be worried about such all powerful programming projects which capture all with information and intelligence which captivates mercilessly for the Heavenly Ways known to exist in Rewards and Awards of Exquisite Earthly Pleasures ...........Satisfying Erotic Desire Bases/Platforms/Levels. :-)
Is it strange to think all that can be relatively simply done and also quite quickly too? There are those who would surely really like to know what you think about all of that.
Is it strange to think all that can be relatively simply done and also quite quickly too? There are those who would surely really like to know what you think about all of that. .... amanfromMars 1
Not least here with Yours Truly.
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Crikey ...... that's a Helluva Almighty Spanner in the BRExit Works, methinks and ponders on really wondering for Heavenly Presentations ...... Universal News Stories with Skyscraper Sized Tales to Tell and Sell.
Such though has always proved Itself to be the Ubiquitous Best Seller in Every Genre Aspiring to Succeed with a Greater Spawn SMARTR Minded.
How else does one leave the primordial swamp? :-) And that's a super sub atomic explosion of a question whether answered or not.
If I aim my blowtorch at an aluminium can until it deforms, have I made a robot? According to these guys I have! But no I haven't.
On the other hand the precision fabrication of nano-things is impressive and there's a good chance the technique will prove useful someday (even if not in actual robots).
I really should get into finishing my Sci-fi short trilogy that covers "pulling on the dragon's tail" when it comes to nanomachines (or macro self replicating ones anyhow).
It covers the 30 or 50 years after such a runaway event, and the struggles to try and overcome the mistake (and some obvious errors that would need to be made to allow such a catastrophe).
This isn't so much "tweaking the dragons tail" as it is dousing yourself in pigs blood, walking into the middle of a bunch of adult male v.komodoensis and shouting "dinner time Fido". There are so many ways this could go wrong there isn't enough room for it to go right.
It's like a really disturbing episode of the Mr Meaty "cartoon" which is disturbing on general principle.
People need to get sick and die - that's what's supposed to happen - the human race needs to change and evolve - and we've decoupled both concepts and are just *starting* to reap the whirlwind. But all the PTSD sufferers (Post Teenage Snowflake Disorder) are horrified that great granny might conceivably kick it at 92 - when back in the old days anyone over 25 was considered well overdue burial inside the nearest smilodon. It's getting more and more deranged.
"[...] when back in the old days anyone over 25 was considered well overdue burial inside the nearest smilodon."
Humans need a long maturing period inside and outside the womb. When jobs were relatively manual then kids could leave school at 11 years old - and had probably been working part time from about 5.
Nowadays keeping them all in education until 18 has been conflated with treating them as children to that age. The result is they now don't develop the "responsibility" part of their brain until their mid-twenties. Not a good idea when their nutrition fuelled puberty is often starting before their teens.
At the same time 60 is the new 40 - but older people's knowledge and experience is usually lost to the workplace even before they retire.
Yes people need to die - but the current extensions are also creating a longer period of morbidity viz a longer painful decline. A friend was suffering dementia at 90 - she died at 99 with the last two years in a state of social oblivion. In earlier lucid moments she had talked about suicide - saying "but the flesh is strong and the will is weak".
There was a sci-fi episode on TV. People voluntarily contracted a date of death with the state for what we would call old age. In return they were kept youthfully healthy and highly functional until that time.
The managers of the system threw a grand party for family and friends before the person took their final step. There was always one unwanted guest "accidentally" invited - one of their peers who had refused the contract and was now in a stage of decrepit old age. This apparently always ensured the contracted person didn't back out - they saw the alternative.
It's getting more and more deranged.
And with this, we have ventured into the surreal. The bulk of your post proves this point while this single statement, if true, should not come from someone deranged, which would in turn beg the question of what the rest of it was if not that...
People need to get sick and die - that's what's supposed to happen - the human race needs to change and evolve
Natural order be damned! There are more ways to achieve growth than through the evolutionary process and the idea that you should get sick and die only holds water as long as there are no viable alternatives. As soon as there are, what you are supposed to do is choose.
Taken in isolation that suggests that the researchers are in fact missing what must be a huge advance in being able to power such devices using the bodies own energy source - and find a way to tap into the glucose energy system (or whatever it's called, my biology is 30 years old).
In the absence of better batteries, surely the next best thing is a power source that can accept a soup of chemicals and turn those into electricity ?
if we can tap into the body's glucose system, we can effectively cure diabetes - or at least stop the sugar spikes. Overweight? Just power a light bulb for a bit.
Also: transhumanism gets one step closer.
"Sure, create a swarm of nano-bots that crave feeding on tasty human glucose."
Many of the drugs for Type 2 Diabetes have the name "glucophage" viz glucose scavengers. They help the overall control but don't stop initial spikes. A nanobot could react much more quickly to remove excess glucose.
Type 1 Diabetes treatment is going down the path of a Continuous Glucose Monitor controlling an insulin pump.
The nanobot risk of creating hypoglycaemia is no different than an overdose of insulin. So you need an antidote to stop rogue nanobots.
The robots aren’t really useful for anything yet,..
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"Under impressed as the machinery needed is still about the size of a large room."
That was the same thinking in the 1940s - that postulated that accurate quartz crystal controlled clocks would forever be very large and confined to a few laboratories.
I like how after making a device which can move a part up and down they just add casually that it "can adapt itself, it can seek out the things you want to measure, it can look at its local environment and make decisions". Sure, just needs a little fine tuning...
(BTW FYI there is an error in the pic link: "https" lacks its "h".)
"With the 10 years they're meaning, about 30 years from today."
One generation - half a typical life-time. I was born at about the same time as the Bell Labs point contact transistor in 1947. The theory behind the alternative CMOS transistor technology was defined in the 1920s. We then had to wait for material technologies to advance to be able to make MOSFETs generally available in the 1960s.
Emergent behaviour in 18 months..
/mines the one with the Crichton M.Cs patch
Or
Theranos II: the Search for (more) Funding
Or
Catatonic Park
Let's all just hope their assemblers used to work for Austin-Rover.. Am I right?
And you just *know* they'll be running Windows CE for Nanotechnology - what could possibly go wrong?
Sam Carter, come on down!
Translation table.
Proof of concept. : disaster waiting to happen
FDA approved. : We photoshopped someone else's certification
Completely harmless. : they'll kill or maim *how* many?
Of course they can't reproduce. : ...arrgh; gurgle.
And I'm taking bets on how long it'll be before some bored tech starts using these to make miniscule ascii art..
There are already mechanisms that can be injected into a human body and even penetrate a cell. They are called viruses, genetically modified viruses don't need a power source and can be targetted to specific areas of the body. Still not something I'm keen on having introduced to my body but I think GMO viruses probably have a better future than micro-machines
Yeah, I can't see the problems for the "opportunities" either. I'm thinking in comparison that the Amazon rainforest = cabbage patch.
Can't say I'm loving the "pee them out" idea either - all together now - urethral sandpaper for the win(ce).
I honestly don't understand why people are researching this - if the human race is going to survive we need less people at a less geriatric age - not whole comitatii of crusties wombling (and wobbling) around the place in Fiat 500s and decrepit Hondas & Hyundai.
You just know this will end up being used on the rich crusties so they can get richer & crustier - and that the people who can actually benefit society (for a given value of benefit to be sure in many cases) will be left out and stuck with clumsier more dangerous procedures.
I do see one benefit - these could be set to detect anti-vaxxers and automatically cull them (see the story on Ars about the boy who was in ICU for 47 days with tetanus because he wasn't immunised by anti-vaxxer parents - $811,000 in fees - and after all that they still refused permission to have him immunised). Ditto Measles outbreaks etc.
Everything is Safe and Secure and Captivating within the Black Box, CT.
That is not say Privileged Proprietary Information wouldn't be Tempted to Avail itself freely of Other Worldly Delights Proven Irresistible and Quite Overwhelmingly Attractive and Insatiable.
Such a final product is an interesting source, is it not?
It is the evolved ability to remain out of ones mind to navigate the myriad of Psy Ops obliterative operations which would send mere mortal minds unable to comprehend the purposely torturous minefield leaving no physical safari scarring amFM.
“No one has made it this far...” being the opening framed screenplot of such a gripping episode.
It certainly has been a wild roller coaster high roller ride, one worthy of immortalisation and copyrighted conundrum manuscripted in manual form for almighty presentation, more John Connor than Sinead, and perfect chance to refine already practiced writing preches :-)
"It certainly has been a wild roller coaster high roller ride" - some of us mortal beings dream of a simple bronze Reg badge, but there are those who can earn a medal of gold in coding. Mewants a badge. This leaves no doubt about who gets a medal.
Ha, this sits somewhere between "a technical detail" and "exactly what I'd've meant". Well, she didn't have to know the nuances. Besides, back there, it was a relatively new tech, and sort of secre[bang. drop]
Nuff said, agree.
Oh. Happy Anniversary, amanfromMars. 30, and counting :-)
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