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Subject: Re: Transistor made from a molecule

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 11:56:30 11/10/01

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On November 09, 2001 at 06:12:33, Eran wrote:

>The news is available at:
>
>http://www.msnbc.com/news/644052.asp
>
>I hope newer computers containing transistors made from molecules will calculate
>much better in chess, no? Also, newer computers would be much cheaper and those
>transisors could be contained in papers as well!!

>It seems to me that every molecule in our universe is already a "transisor" that
>computes or "thinks" or "talks"!! And all molecules here and there can be
>invaluable for computation and beyond. Molecules are like fuel for thinking
>power. Maybe we ourselves can extract some free molecules from anything and
>insert them into a paper sheet and molecules start calculating in chess for
>free!! That's Godly gift.
>
>Perhaps someone will invent an extremely tiny transistor made from quark or
>superstring that calculates much better than a transistor made from a molecule
>does.
>
>Will someone else invent a chip made from consciousness power at long last? God
>forbids it. I don't believe that.
>
>Anyway, imagine that perhaps monstrous computers in the next century will be
>scary and unpleasant, no?
>
>Eran

Ah another machine takes over man story,
don't worry. So far no one could make something that approaches
human intelligence and never will.

Anyway before we continue our discussion, let's first wait for a travel
agency to get there a return ticket to planet Mars. Travelling
there is pretty much a peanut compared to what you describe above.








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