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RE: Technological Singularity

From: Eugene Leitl <>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 19:12:51 +0200 (MET DST)

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Jon Knight wrote:

> Fair enough for an OS and the multi-hop routing, but the

Did you also get the localizer angle? Not digital pulse radio yet, though.

> nano-computers would be several orders of magnitude smaller than what
> the Berkeley folk appear to be aiming for.  They're using (small) bulk

Sure, but these are today's prototypes.

> 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"

Not exactly. I've read an early preprint of Nanosystems. In fact recently
reality manages to make Nanosystems look dates.

> problem. :-)

You can always go to NIR, VIS and UV. Getting juice will be a problem,
though, you need at least few 100 um for the microwave antenna to absorb.

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