Posted on 08/18/2009 8:06:55 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
IBM said it was looking to DNA "origami" for a powerful new generation of ultra-tiny microchips.
The US computer giant collaborated with California Institute of Technology researchers to develop a way to design microchips that mimic how chains of DNA molecules fold, allowing for processors far smaller and denser than any seen today.
"This is a way to assemble an electronics device of the future," said Bill Hinsberg, manager of the lithography group at IBM's Almaden Research Center in California, on Monday.
"It offers a potential way to construct nano-scale devices. The industry has always gone in the direction of making things smaller, because that opens the realm of possibilities."
A tenet of the chip industry is Moore's Law, a history-backed belief that...
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Ping!
IBM and other smart people didn’t ALWAYS know what was coming:
“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
“I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and
talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data
processing is a fad that won’t last out the year.” The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
“But what ... is it good for?” Engineer at the Advanced
Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the
microchip.
hopefully vista will finally be able to run well on it...
Until mass storage speed catches up, Vista will always be a pig.
Looks like a lot of materialism based on natural laws to me.
BTW,I wonder if what we now call junk DNA is really the data segment.
Project ENCODE has found that up to 93% of our genome is functional, and that number will likely climb with further research. This came as an utter shock to the Evos that predicted that 97% of our genome is functionless “junk” left over from our evoluitonary past. It would appear that the vast majority of this functional, non-coding DNA is metainformation that controls the tiny percantage of DNA that actually codes for protein.
I am awed by the undirected, accidental, randomness of the manner by which such a marvel came into existence. I dare not call it a “process,” for that would imply rational, purposeful planning and execution, which we humans, being rational entities (I almost called us “creatures”) know cannot have been the case.
Thanks for the ping!
Considering computers in the 40's/50's they were weak...
I know that evo predictions are always wrong, but where can I find all the creationist predictions? I never hear about them, until a new scientific discovery. I'd like to see them ahead of time. For once.
“Project ENCODE has found that up to 93% of our genome is functional, and that number will likely climb with further research. This came as an utter shock to the Evos that predicted that 97% of our genome is functionless “junk” left over from our evoluitonary past. It would appear that the vast majority of this functional, non-coding DNA is metainformation that controls the tiny percantage of DNA that actually codes for protein.”
—No, they found that about 93% code for rna. The amount of DNA with no known use is still about 97%.
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