Ok, you're right. But let's look at it by a different perspective. Why use ordinary RAM, or ordinary hard disks? With this huge density available, who needs these conventional peripherals? Of course such a processor should take a long time to roll out, so we can expect that mass storage devices using this same nanotechnology will be available. And it's likely that RAM will be undistinguishable from mass storage, both will converge to be just "plain memory"...
Looks like Eric Drexler's idea of nanotechnology
will finally be viable. Should this transistor
be successful, then it will be possible to assemble a nanomachine that builds... other
nanomachines! Imagine swarms of programmable nanobots attacking some patogenics inside the body, or repairing damaged DNA. This would be the greatest revolution in technology since man learned to use the fire.
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Ok, you're right. But let's look at it by a different perspective. Why use ordinary RAM, or ordinary hard disks? With this huge density available, who needs these conventional peripherals? Of course such a processor should take a long time to roll out, so we can expect that mass storage devices using this same nanotechnology will be available. And it's likely that RAM will be undistinguishable from mass storage, both will converge to be just "plain memory"...
Looks like Eric Drexler's idea of nanotechnology will finally be viable. Should this transistor be successful, then it will be possible to assemble a nanomachine that builds... other nanomachines! Imagine swarms of programmable nanobots attacking some patogenics inside the body, or repairing damaged DNA. This would be the greatest revolution in technology since man learned to use the fire.