Posted on 06/04/2018 10:12:53 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Article is nothing more than saying we have reached the limit to what can be done with Semiconductors.
Smaller than 14nm, things become very difficult and near impossible.
It is very possible that yields might be too poor to ever make sense to go smaller than 14nm.
We knew EUV was going to be tough but it is turning out much tougher than we thought.
“Idiocracy was a documentary. Also you’ll probably enjoy the hell out of it.”
Hey, my new processor has electrolytes.
Cool!
>>My present definition is that “artificial intelligence” is exhibited by any system which performs a useful service and whose detailed operation IS NOT UNDERSTOOD.<<
This is pretty much the definition of Chaos Theory.
I just gave highlights. It’s pretty obvious to anyone paying attention that the world is reaching a point where it will be extremely hostile and downright caustic to any individual human being that is not an extremely powerful person - and even they can’t be “safe”.
Does a microwave really need more controls than a Piper Cub???
'Smart dust' aims to monitor everything
CNN, May 3 2010In the 1990s, a researcher named Kris Pister dreamed up a wild future in which people would sprinkle the Earth with countless tiny sensors, no larger than grains of rice.
These "smart dust" particles, as he called them, would monitor everything, acting like electronic nerve endings for the planet. Fitted with computing power, sensing equipment, wireless radios and long battery life, the smart dust would make observations and relay mountains of real-time data about people, cities and the natural environment.
Now, a version of Pister's smart dust fantasy is starting to become reality. "It's exciting. It's been a long time coming," said Pister, a computing professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
"I coined the phrase 14 years ago. So smart dust has taken a while, but it's finally here."
His web page at UC Berkeley has some interesting early information about a DARPA project he finished in 2001. He envisioned integrating a processor, sensors, and communications in a cubic millimeter.
SMART DUST: Autonomous sensing and communication in a cubic millimeter
Dr. pister was awarded the second annual Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation, in 2006, from the I/UCRC Association, for developing and successfully commercializing Smart Dust. He has also focused his energies on synthetic insects, which he has characterized as "basically Smart Dust with legs." Professor Pister was award the Alfred F. Sperry Founder Award in 2009 for his "contributions to the science and technology of instrumentation, systems, and automation."
Kris is a co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC) and the Ubiquitious Swarm Lab.
He founded Dust Networks, Inc. In 2004, a company that specialized in the design and manufacture of wireless sensor networks for industrial applications including process monitoring, condition monitoring, asset management, Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) monitoring and power management. They were acquired by Linear Technology, Inc in December 2011, which in turn was acquired by Analog Devices, Inc in 2017. The Dust Networks product team operates in the IoT Networking Platforms group of Analog Devices.
I don’t doubt the proliferation of IoT devices will continue, but on the other hand, that’s all we get out of this article. A blinding flash of the obvious.
Maybe. But I don’t yet see the one world religion, the beast, the false prophet, or the new temple in Jerusalem.
Do you even know what that is? :-)
I had nearly zero computer experience when I purchased my first windows desktop, it ran Windows 95 which was new at the time. I learned quickly to do the things I wanted to do on it which consisted mainly of locating information on many subjects much more quickly than I had ever been able to do before. Maybe I’m just a grumpy old man now but it seems to me that it is more difficult to locate the info that I want now than twenty years ago.
Yep. Smart appliances have been used in some mass attacks on ISPs.
I do not think they will take long to happen once that ball is rolling. This is especially true if you believe in the pretribulation Rapture. Once that influence is gone from the world, the crazies will be truly in charge and the opposition will no longer be able thwart them.
I’m not talking about a bible prophesy viewpoint. I was into that stuff in the 80’s and 90’s. I just know that “we’ll know it when we see it” now. I’m talking about everything else. The bible prophesy stuff is a whole nother issue of its own.
I’m “post-trib, pre-wrath” for what it’s worth. I started out pre-trib, but that didn’t last long.
I stopped into the deli at the local grocery store last week. A cute, bubbly high school girl was working the deli. I asked for four ounces of sliced roast beef. She stood there, dumbfounded and with a blank look on her face. She replied “Sir, we only sell it by the pound.”
I said “OK, I want four ounces — what fraction of a pound is that?”
Dumb look and silence.
I went on. “Right. How many ounces in a pound?”
Yikes! Another dumb look and silence. Her stupidity and ignorance were really getting to me now. I continued. “OK, there are sixteen ounces in a pound. What fraction of a pound is four ounces?”
Another completely befuddled, brain-addled look.
I went on. “Four divided by sixteen is one-quarter. I want one-quarter of a pound of roast beef.”
She prepared my order and handed it to me. The label she affixed said “9.2 ounces.” She couldn’t even guesstimate that she had given me over twice what I asked for.
At least it was excellent roast beef and made sandwiches for a couple days longer than planned.
We are SO doomed!
The Lord’s return in days would be even better.
The Lord’s return in days would be even better.
Not THAT Moore...;)
I used to get excited about new technology, now I actually find myself daydreaming about how wonderful it would be to go and spend some time where you draw water from a well, cook with a wood fire and have no electricity, phones etc. I think I would love it for at least a week or two, actually that is the kind of life I was born into in 1944.
Anything that doubles every so often will soon exceed the number of basic particles in the Universe.
So it can not continue to double. Therefore the “law” is a fraud and has been from the start.
Remember the story about having a penny, and then doubling the amount each day. On day 30, you have 5 million dollars. 31, 10 million. 32, 20 million.
We’re on the same page. I think we do over-romanticize it, but it is a valid point. I will say that I do avoid new technology unless it brings solid value to our lifestyle.
My wife and I moved to a home nestled in the middle of 32 acres in KY from our old home of Seattle about seven years ago. We love it. We don’t have a dishwasher, nor do we need one. We don’t need the internet of things and have no internet connected cameras or microphones in our home. But we have fast internet for when we need it.
We love it.
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