Technology is advancing at an exponential rate often called the "Law of Accelerating Returns." If futurist predictions prove correct, we'll have advanced molecular manufacturing by around 2025, and possibly the replacement of humanity by vastly advanced machines a decade or two later.
This is a chronicle of our journey to that future, one advancing technology article at a time. I post the more significant and interesting articles as I come across them.
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Russia is building a futuristic combat suit it claims can stop .50 caliber bullets
Russia is always building weapons; it's all they do!
But anyways, I always liked these guys for obscure latest science/tech news - https://twitter.com/lifeboathq?lang=en
Lately, they've slowed down a good bit. But, for some more off topic that I can't help noting/or thinking . . .
Every since the alphafold Protein folding news, the Foresight Institute has gone dead quiet. I don't know why they just stopped posting at youtube; other than talking about health products, no matter how advanced, is maybe not getting any views. I just have to wonder if maybe they're working hard on trying to make nanotech happen through protein folding, with the latest advances?
I've actually emailed alphafold about trying to make nanotech happen through protein folding.
I didn't get any notification email saying you had replied. But anwyays,
I would think the amount of science/technology created would increase, and hence the amount of science/tech news would increase. Maybe the affects of the Wuhan virus are finally being felt . For awhile, the pandemic didn't seem to slow science and technological development one bit!
Yeah, I have noticed there hasn't been as much coverage of rapid advancements in nanotechnology. I hope it's not that things have stalled, but instead that the advancements aren't as interesting because they're increasingly esoteric, although just as significant. A.I. is getting a lot of attention, though, and one helps lead to the other. Mature nanotech is SUPPOSED to arrive around 2025. We'll just have to see what happens.
2025 sounds like in the ballpark for where I see nanotech is right now. From what I can see, the only problem they need to solve is massive parallelism. S.T.M's and electron microscopes both can manipulate individual atoms.
That would certainly help, but the big breakthrough that's needed is the construction of assemblers, disassemblers and replicators. Even if it takes a long time to build just one replicator that can be subsequently transformed into an assembler and disassembler, that's all that's needed to achieve the massive parallelism for molecular manufacturing.
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Russia is always building weapons; it's all they do!
But anyways, I always liked these guys for obscure latest science/tech news - https://twitter.com/lifeboathq?lang=en
Lately, they've slowed down a good bit. But, for some more off topic that I can't help noting/or thinking . . .
Every since the alphafold Protein folding news, the Foresight Institute has gone dead quiet. I don't know why they just stopped posting at youtube; other than talking about health products, no matter how advanced, is maybe not getting any views. I just have to wonder if maybe they're working hard on trying to make nanotech happen through protein folding, with the latest advances?
I've actually emailed alphafold about trying to make nanotech happen through protein folding.
Interesting. I wasn't aware of the slowdown. Thanks for the update.
I didn't get any notification email saying you had replied. But anwyays,
I would think the amount of science/technology created would increase, and hence the amount of science/tech news would increase. Maybe the affects of the Wuhan virus are finally being felt . For awhile, the pandemic didn't seem to slow science and technological development one bit!
Yeah, I have noticed there hasn't been as much coverage of rapid advancements in nanotechnology. I hope it's not that things have stalled, but instead that the advancements aren't as interesting because they're increasingly esoteric, although just as significant. A.I. is getting a lot of attention, though, and one helps lead to the other. Mature nanotech is SUPPOSED to arrive around 2025. We'll just have to see what happens.
2025 sounds like in the ballpark for where I see nanotech is right now. From what I can see, the only problem they need to solve is massive parallelism. S.T.M's and electron microscopes both can manipulate individual atoms.
That would certainly help, but the big breakthrough that's needed is the construction of assemblers, disassemblers and replicators. Even if it takes a long time to build just one replicator that can be subsequently transformed into an assembler and disassembler, that's all that's needed to achieve the massive parallelism for molecular manufacturing.
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