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originally posted by: pl3bscheese
a reply to: tothetenthpower
So my grandfather had triple bypass at 52. Father had stints put in through a vein in his thigh at 52. I'm 32 and hoping to swallow some nanobots by the time I need a good cleaning in my arteries.
Look at computer advancements. There were a few breakthroughs going from mechanical to vacuum tube to integrated circuits to microprocessors. I think that's the way to look at it. With current tech linear progression, but in reality radical implements and the great exchange of global information make advancements exponential.
I don't think we're more than 20 years from nanobots being used in many fields.
The robots were injected into a Blaberus discoidalis cockroach, a species commonly used as pet food for reptiles. Inside each "box" was another chemical, which recognized the hemolymph cells, which are the cockroach's version of white blood cells. The chemical in the box would bind to the blood cells.
But instead of just injecting one kind of robot, the scientists used four: "E," "P1," "P2," and "N."
The different robots carried "keys" to open up the "E" robots in the presence of one or more chemical cues. So, for example, one test was on E robots that opened up only if both cues (call them X and Y) were present. Adding the P1 robots to the mix lets the E's open up in response to X only, while adding the P2 robots lets the E robots open in response to Y only.
This is just like a logic gate in a computer — an AND (X and Y) or an OR gate (X or Y).
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
Just think if we had volunteers to build the worlds largest super computer by hand, people to do it by hand they could eventually out build anything we have ever seen!
originally posted by: tanka418
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
Just think if we had volunteers to build the worlds largest super computer by hand, people to do it by hand they could eventually out build anything we have ever seen!
This is just to funny!!!
Did you know that there are several places on Earth where the largest super computers ARE being "built by hand"...Though there are no volunteers, everybody get a paycheck...
Right here in the US we have a company called "Cray" who actually build super computers as a business, an ageing, but quite adequate system is called the "Jaguar"...this system has 1000's of processing cores, and continues to do it's thing behind the scenes...where the "fantasy core" of the Human population rarely even looks...
By the way...the "Cray Jaguar" uses older AMD multi-core processors...not unlike what is found in today's PC's...though in my opinion it would be better to use Intel processors...
Can you imagine the power of a system with 16,000 hex core Intel "i7's"??? Truly awesome.
originally posted by: FormOfTheLord
When I think about it its just materials cost and labor, so a superconductor manufacturing country could if they wanted make it a government project to build the infinate computer. It would probably look like a building but actually be a big computer.
originally posted by: MystikMushroom
a reply to: tothetenthpower
I don't know...We were promised flying cars 60 years ago and supposed to be on Mars by now.
It seems we can envision technologies that could exist, but we only progress in directions that make the most profit.
We still don't even have VR headsets commercially available. I can't go down to Best Buy and get an Occulus Rift yet, and even then it's a huge clunky thing. The best we have right now is strapping smart phones to our faces? Really?
We push our technologies in weird ways that make me shake my head.