just type "the singularity" into google, why bother posting? hehe... the mayan calendar's 2012 end/new beginning, chinese i ching, egypt pyramids, science technology evolution accelerating at this accelerating rate..to a point where space/time is the only limit. check it out
A great idea except that the rate of discovery is going down. At the end of the 19th century Engineering had a golden age, followed by physics and chemistry at the start of the 20th century and finally biology at the end of the 20th century. All the technology we are seeing now was in one way or another a result of the development of quantum mechanics at the start of the 20th century so it makes sense that we will soon see the fruits of the bio tech era. As far as today is concerned pure science is looking in quite a bad way. Its not so much that the world is becoming more religious after all anyone who actually knows anything about religion and/or science appreciates that there is no real conflict but once again people seem to have stopped asking why and are just accepting what they are told. I certainly dont see anything spectacular happening in the next century the way things are going.
or some kind of exponential function tailing off into a power law. Either way we aint going ot be much further by 2012, though im sure broadband will be faster, tvs will be wider and thinner and your living room will have more speakers than you can count. Though most of the world will still be hungry and have a life expectancy of 40.
Nanotechnology changes everything. We are at the dawn of a new technological age. This technological innovation will change life more than any invention since the discovery of fire. The Nanotech revolution is upon us. Barring complete colapse of society, controll of matter on a molecular level is inevitable. Scice discovery has not slowed at all. It continues to accelerate! Jim
Well we seem to be getting stuck at the 10's of micron scale so far 80-90 microns is about as small as things are being made. IBM has recently developed a lithographic technique capable of resolving about 40 microns. Though for nanomachinery you need structures of the order unit microns at the largest. Unfortunately we lack the tools to make things on this scale but more importantly we lack the ability to design them as this scale requires rigorous solution to QM which dont really exist. But apart from the inability to design or produce on that scale we're flying. Though we can always copy biological systems that gets round the designing part. I have no doubt we'll get there but we're a handfull of major breakthroughs away from it right now, though its a good field to get into becuase this generation could make some of those breakthroughs and be to nanotech what Bohr, Schrodinger and co are to QM. But I doubt we'll see any usefull apps for a good 50 years or so for actual computing machinery probably somewhat longer than that.
Fat Tony, we are not at all stuck. We have technology now capable of 10 nm lithography. The breakthroughs are essentialy happening all the time. Business, not science slows the progression at this point Jim
