"Studying Active devices and nanosystems"
Is the key phrase.
Better start getting controls in line because it is going to take off like a rocket and when an information based virus can cause physical ramifications on a massive scale nothing will quite be the same.
When the information is the action then he who controls the meme controls the actions.
Showing posts with label Nano Tech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nano Tech. Show all posts
13 April, 2007
10 February, 2007
01 February, 2007
A Demon Tamed - Nanomotor
Maxwell's Demon Results in a Nanomotor well 150 years later anyway.
A significant development that at the same time underscores the validity of visionary ideas to actually occur but also shows that they might take longer than optimists think.
A significant development that at the same time underscores the validity of visionary ideas to actually occur but also shows that they might take longer than optimists think.
26 January, 2007
18 January, 2007
This is Singularly Significant
If they are successful this will change everything.
This would make Control and Security of ACS far, far more important than it currently is.
I am not exaggerating. If it is successful everything changes over the next 15 years.
Anyone who has read my earlier posts will know that I am an on again off again enthusiast then skeptic for most Singularity type topics.
I usually try to be more realistic.
For those who are not into this topic the "Singularity" (Tech as opposed to astronomical or physics) could probably be summed up by what happens when the exponential trends of Moores Law merge with Nano engineering and biotechnology.
The basic concept is that as these exponential trends continue they will reach a point were the expansion and changes occur so quickly that they are beyond the means of the human mind to comprehend them.
I don't know whether current trends will continue uninterrupted or will instead plateau but even if they only continue for a short time there are some very significant changes in the works.
In the realm of info security this could be very important. If microscopic automated machines (bionanomachines might be a better term) run on software and use soon to be discovered communication mechanisms then control system viruses and hackers take on a new significance.
The meme structures, governance, and controls that are used will have to be hybrid solutions just like the systems to be protected. Just like a hybrid approach is necessary to tackling the difficulties emerging in the automated control would as it further integrates with the Internet technological generation, these control systems will have to include information security andControl system like safety and security. They (and we) will also have to adopt biological controls like immunology and other controls to ensure not only their operablility but also their safety.
I know this is a flight of fancy for most of the people reading this but the reality is that even if only a small fraction of what is being (realistically) predicted comes true there will be phenomenal changes to the human race. Changes that are just as (if not more) significant than the changes that the technological revolution of the last century but they will happen over then next 10 to 20 years.
This would make Control and Security of ACS far, far more important than it currently is.
I am not exaggerating. If it is successful everything changes over the next 15 years.
Anyone who has read my earlier posts will know that I am an on again off again enthusiast then skeptic for most Singularity type topics.
I usually try to be more realistic.
For those who are not into this topic the "Singularity" (Tech as opposed to astronomical or physics) could probably be summed up by what happens when the exponential trends of Moores Law merge with Nano engineering and biotechnology.
The basic concept is that as these exponential trends continue they will reach a point were the expansion and changes occur so quickly that they are beyond the means of the human mind to comprehend them.
I don't know whether current trends will continue uninterrupted or will instead plateau but even if they only continue for a short time there are some very significant changes in the works.
In the realm of info security this could be very important. If microscopic automated machines (bionanomachines might be a better term) run on software and use soon to be discovered communication mechanisms then control system viruses and hackers take on a new significance.
The meme structures, governance, and controls that are used will have to be hybrid solutions just like the systems to be protected. Just like a hybrid approach is necessary to tackling the difficulties emerging in the automated control would as it further integrates with the Internet technological generation, these control systems will have to include information security andControl system like safety and security. They (and we) will also have to adopt biological controls like immunology and other controls to ensure not only their operablility but also their safety.
I know this is a flight of fancy for most of the people reading this but the reality is that even if only a small fraction of what is being (realistically) predicted comes true there will be phenomenal changes to the human race. Changes that are just as (if not more) significant than the changes that the technological revolution of the last century but they will happen over then next 10 to 20 years.
12 January, 2007
Nanotubes, Space Elevators and nano thin circuits - What if CI#7
What if you combine this NanoTube Sheet
With this
Coalescence of Beta Irradiated Carbon Nanotubes (sorry for the full article you have to pay but the summary is enough to get the mind moving) Or any number of other similar articles I have seen.
How about if you use electron streams from multiple angles so that the incidence beta radiation level is only high enough for covalent bonding in specific controlled points (or lines or planes[planes would be hard])
Stack the sheets and bond them?
Join Sheets edges?
Encase determined impurities?
Alter electrical characteristics in specific patterns?
What else?
How uniform are the sheets?
How much does tube damage degrade the Van Der Waals forces?
Can that degradation be overcome by increasing interbonding due to covalent interlinks?
Space Ribbon here we come.
With this
Coalescence of Beta Irradiated Carbon Nanotubes (sorry for the full article you have to pay but the summary is enough to get the mind moving) Or any number of other similar articles I have seen.
How about if you use electron streams from multiple angles so that the incidence beta radiation level is only high enough for covalent bonding in specific controlled points (or lines or planes[planes would be hard])
Stack the sheets and bond them?
Join Sheets edges?
Encase determined impurities?
Alter electrical characteristics in specific patterns?
What else?
How uniform are the sheets?
How much does tube damage degrade the Van Der Waals forces?
Can that degradation be overcome by increasing interbonding due to covalent interlinks?
Space Ribbon here we come.
12 December, 2006
Oh Yea - on Statcounter - Nano Tech
Some guy from Switzerland is currently reading everything I have about Nanotech.
:)
:)
11 December, 2006
Nano Tech
350 Nano tech products
I read a few of the descriptions and some of them are underwhelming but it is a new field and obviously changing.
I read a few of the descriptions and some of them are underwhelming but it is a new field and obviously changing.
18 August, 2006
Why it must be done
If you really want to see why it is essential that we fully develop a control strategy please read this and understand its implications.
http://www.e-drexler.com/d/06/00/EOC/EOC_Table_of_Contents.html
This is why we have to develop an integrated controls hierarchy that goes from the meme 's that control societal interactions at the top to the ways that the smallest machinery works at the bottom.
Engines of Creation is the guidebook to Nano Tech.
http://www.e-drexler.com/d/06/00/EOC/EOC_Table_of_Contents.html
This is why we have to develop an integrated controls hierarchy that goes from the meme 's that control societal interactions at the top to the ways that the smallest machinery works at the bottom.
Engines of Creation is the guidebook to Nano Tech.
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