Forward from John Clark: According to today's New York Times several important advances will be announced in the scientific journals in the next few weeks. A...
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Eugene Leitl
eugene.leitl@xxx.xxxx...
Nov 2, 1999 11:33 pm
Is this just me, or does anybody else find this ongoing list fragmentation pointless? Divided communities are isolated communities. As long as the focus is...
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Gina Miller
nanogirl@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 3, 1999 7:17 am
~Nanogirl News~ Nov. 2, 99 (Apologies for the delay, I have been spending too much time, playing with useless software) *Buckywaves? (Diffraction and...
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steve wishnevsky
wishnevs@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 3, 1999 11:14 am
... didn't see much discussion on nanotech..... i'm not a scientist and didn't want to mess up a serious list.... sorry if i offend your sense of order......
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Eugene Leitl
eugene.leitl@xxx.xxxx...
Nov 4, 1999 3:09 am
... nanotech@onelist.com has been created despite nsg-d@... having had existed for several years. If only people would check (whether by websearch or...
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Gina Miller
nanogirl@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 5, 1999 8:24 pm
This Nov 8 issue is not yet available online, but you can purchase it at your local store or newstand. From: Michael D. Lemonick, "...And Will They Go Inside...
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James B. Lewis
nanojbl@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 5, 1999 10:28 pm
This is only indirectly relevant to nanotechnology. The show should give some background on the surprising versatility of nature's earliest and most thoroughly...
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Gina Miller
nanogirl@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 6, 1999 1:38 am
Forwarded from Richard Terra: Subject: Molecular Electronics/Computing on NPR Science Friday Status: The first hour of National Public Radio's Talk of the...
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Gina Miller
nanogirl@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 6, 1999 6:43 pm
... logical ... science ... thinking ... the ... at ... and ... to ... for ... example ... perhaps, ... humanity ... ...
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Student Jobs
studentjobs@xxxxxxx.x...
Nov 7, 1999 10:47 am
Zyvex estimates that Nanotechnology will arrive within 5-10 years. I'm guessing more like 50-75 years. Why? SOFTWARE. Microsoft (probably the largest software...
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steve wishnevsky
wishnevs@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 7, 1999 11:13 pm
... the estimate i have is that your pc will be more complex than you by the year 2020.... wether it will be intelligent, is another matter.... steve w....
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Eugene Leitl
eugene.leitl@xxx.xxxx...
Nov 8, 1999 9:52 pm
Nano is mostly mechanical, and in that not different from any robotics enterprise. Construction is even simpler, since based on common analogs of silicon...
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Alan Heaberlin
amh@xx.xxxx
Nov 8, 1999 10:12 pm
Personally, I think the timeline is more along the 5-10 year period. Even though it seems that there are insurmountable obstacles to building an assembler,...
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Sean Elliott
sean_m_elliott@xxxxxx...
Nov 9, 1999 4:31 pm
It's simpler than that. A "nano bot" has been analogous to very simple forms of life such as bacteria or bacteriaphage. These carry and use very simple forms...
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Eugene Leitl
eugene.leitl@xxx.xxxx...
Nov 9, 1999 1:47 am
... 2005? 2010? Are you serious? ... Overcoming the bootstrap bottleneck seems to involve several breakthroughs. Which, last time I looked, don't happen on...
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Alan Heaberlin
amh@xx.xxxx
Nov 9, 1999 5:42 am
Eugene, The first thing we need are optimists pressing nanotechnology forward. My job is to get investments of yes, money, but more of talent, ambition and...
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James B. Lewis
nanojbl@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 9, 1999 6:31 am
... It's easy to concoct credible scenarios that have mature molecular manufacturing arriving in 10 to 15 years, and equally easy to concoct equally credible...
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joseph aardvark
j_aardvark@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 9, 1999 9:56 am
From: nanotech@onelist.com Reply-To: nanotech@onelist.com To: nanotech@onelist.com Subject: [nanotech] Digest Number 91 Date: 8 Nov 1999 10:25:19 -0000 ... ...
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Telaunt@...
Nov 9, 1999 3:17 pm
Mr. or Ms. Jobs, I am assuming that your statement about software forcing back the nanotech timeline 50 years was made for dramatic affect. EVERY company,...
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Telaunt@xxx.xxx
Nov 9, 1999 3:39 pm
Mr. Lewis, "I am not a programmer, but my understanding is that LINUX is more reliable than Windows NT and was developed with far fewer resources." Yes, LINUX...
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Eugene Leitl
eugene.leitl@xxx.xxxx...
Nov 9, 1999 9:16 pm
... Sorry, control paradigm being totally different this doesn't exactly apply....
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Eugene Leitl
eugene.leitl@xxx.xxxx...
Nov 9, 1999 9:58 pm
... I think it is obvious that the reactive moiety is always a (potentially biggish) molecule, not an atom, even if a single atom is deposited during the...
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steve wishnevsky
wishnevs@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 9, 1999 11:52 pm
... As for the ethical questions, I think you will find no precedent for a technology being shaped, a priori, by any ethical consideration whatsoever. The...
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James B. Lewis
nanojbl@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 10, 1999 2:17 am
... Probably what the "nanohacker" community needs to get going is for someone to do roughly what Linus Torvalds did for computer operating systems: write an...
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CarlScheider@xx.xxx
Nov 10, 1999 1:44 am
In a message dated 11/8/99 4:25:12 AM Central Standard Time, nanotech@onelist.com writes: << Zyvex estimates that Nanotechnology will arrive within 5-10 years....
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James B. Lewis
nanojbl@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 10, 1999 3:37 am
... The relevant distinction is between depositing a single atom as the next element on the workpiece in a diamondoid type assembler (as in the relatively...
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Penner, Jon
JPenner@xxxxx.xxxx
Nov 10, 1999 10:38 am
I do hope you are right - but my only concern with the large corporate funding of nano research is that if anyone there takes a very good look at the economic...
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Eugene Leitl
eugene.leitl@xxx.xxxx...
Nov 10, 1999 7:17 pm
... Then you need not to go further than http://starship.python.net/crew/hinsen/MMTK/ OpenChem http://openchem.org is based on it. ... ...
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Telaunt@xxx.xxx
Nov 11, 1999 5:11 am
Mr. Penner, I to wonder about the corporate response to the Utopian dreams of so many nanotech advocates. I believe, however, that every expected "revolution"...
