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...FRANKENFOOD FEED THE WORLD? WILL MY PC BE SMARTER THAN I AM? WILL WE PLUG CHIPS INTO OUR BRAINS? WILL ROBOTS RISE UP AND DEMAND THEIR RIGHTS? WILL EVERYTHING BE DIGITAL? WILL WE STILL TURN PAGES? WILL WE CLOSE THE BOOK ON BOOKS? WILL TINY ROBOTS BUILD DIAMONDS ONE ATOM AT A TIME? WHAT IS NANOTECHNOLOGY? WHAT WILL REPLACE SILICON? WILL MOORE'S LAW BE REPEALED? WHAT WILL REPLACE THE INTERNET? WILL CYBERCRIMINALS RUN THE WORLD? WILL MICROSOFT AOL OWN EVERYTHING? IS MONOPOLY INEVITABLE? IS TECHNOLOGY MOVING TOO FAST? WILL LOW TECH REPLACE HIGH TECH? CALEB CARR: KILLING TIME...
...biotechnology is limited by the tasks cells already know how to carry out. Nanotech visionaries have much more ambitious notions. Imagine a nanomachine that could take raw carbon and arrange it, atom by atom, into a perfect diamond. Imagine a machine that dismembers dioxin molecules, one by one, into their component parts. Or a device that cruises the human bloodstream, seeks out cholesterol deposits on vessel walls and disassembles them. Or one that takes grass clippings and remanufactures them into bread. Literally every physical object in the world, from computers to cheese, is made of molecules, and in principle...
...that their silicon components will approach the size of molecules. At these incredibly tiny distances, the bizarre rules of quantum mechanics take over, permitting electrons to jump from one place to another without passing through the space between. Like water from a leaky fire hose, electrons will spurt across atom-size wires and insulators, causing fatal short circuits...
...salient neural details of the human brain, the most practical approach would be to scan it from inside. By 2030, "nanobot" technology should be available for brain scanning. Nanobots are robots that are the size of human blood cells or even smaller (see "Will Tiny Robots Build Diamonds One Atom at a Time?"). Billions of them could travel through every brain capillary and scan neural details up close. Using high-speed wireless connections, the nanobots would communicate with one another and with other computers that are compiling the brain-scan database...
...Jima's numbers are appalling. Practically all the defenders were annihilated or committed suicide. The Marines suffered some 20,000 casualties, including nearly 6,800 dead. That is one-third of all the leathernecks killed in the entire war. Were it not for the atom bomb, tens of thousands of Americans and their Allies would have died during the planned invasion of Japan. If that seems too remote, think of it this way: Bradley, Greene and perhaps even you, reader, might not have been born...