Nano-transistor self-assembles using biology 19:00 20 November 03 NewScientist.com news service
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994406 There will be some pretty weird stuff happening over the next decade or so. I sometimes wonder if we'll get our carbon nanotube fiber from biological systems in the end. Much depends on whether we'll see Moore's Law-type effects in this technology. Moore's Law depends on the highly parallel nature of photolithography and chemistry, on carving structures into planar surfaces by exposure of substances to light patterns. Biotech depends more on the exponential growth curves of microorganism cultures and DNA can do 3-dimensional construction, not just 2D. One of the founders of Intel said they had trouble predicting anything in their technology more than 7 years out, even with the driving forces pretty well understood. I really wonder if anyone knows what's going to happen at the biotech/nanotech interface even 3 years out, at this rate. For all we know, space elevator reasoning may seem crudely extrapolative in 10 years, with either much better approaches discovered, or all hopes dashed. -michael turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/
