At 09:08 PM 1/29/2003 -0500, "Tyler Durden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you mean photolith below those dimensions you may be right, but as you know scaling down from the top is just one approach. Building up from the bottom (u.e., nanotech) is also receiving both gov't and substantial private funding. Although bulk nano-materials are the first economic applications of this approach (in fact, nano materials, e.g., carbon soot, have been in industrial use for many decades), it looks like structured materials and devices may not be that far behind.Tim May wrote...(A side note should be made here about the fact that some technologies have a very high activation energy barrier...without a very intensive amount of capital, they can't happen. Indeed, aren't we nearly at that point with sub-0.13um technology? It is possible that further advances just won't be possible without direct or indirect government funding.)
"Ask why the U.S.S.R., which depended essentially solely on "federal funding," failed so completely. Hint: it wasn't just because of repression. It was largely because "picking winners" doesn't work, and command economies only know how to pick winners (they think)."
steve
