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RE: Technological Singularity

From: Jon Knight <>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 17:58:57 +0100 (BST)

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Eugene Leitl wrote:
> > I've not read the book (too busy for fiction at the moment!) but for this
> > there is always the promise of nano-scale computers.
> 
> TinyOS: an operating system for Networked Sensors
> 
> 	http://tinyos.millennium.berkeley.edu/

Fair enough for an OS and the multi-hop routing, but the nano-computers
would be several orders of magnitude smaller than what the Berkeley folk
appear to be aiming for.  They're using (small) bulk technology rather
than nanotech.  I was thinking more of the machines that Drexler describes
in "Engines of Creation" (available from the Foresight Institute website
at <URL:http://www.foresight.org/EOC/index.html> - its been around for
some years but its still a good read if you've not touched on nanotech
ideas before).  On nanotech scales doing RF will be an "interesting"
problem. :-)

Tatty bye,

Jim'll

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