The military wants it first, after they have it for 4 generations then you will see a few consumer applications. But truly it could be made to operate as a virus with any characteristics that could be devised, not just germ or chemical warfare, but say dropped from a fighter plane and then attaching themselves to your target (human,steal,etc.) and then start producing HCL,HF acids of extremely high molarity basically eating a tank to nothing, etc. The more Power they can get an individual unit to generate they could have laser mines, Jamming clouds that float through the sky, Anti Missile devices where they form themselves into a giant net in the path of a missile. You could put them into bullets, tank rounds, missiles, gernades, anything. Imagine a floating blankets of Nanites which render a city completely invisible, or bend and flex producing an extremly tough almost impenetrable armor for individual soldiers, tanks. An Airplane wing with flexes over it entire length a MISSION ADAPTIVE WING, which is as strong a titanium and composite can make, but as flexible and sensitive to airflow as a sparrows feathers. The applications are limitless. And truly astounding, and because you see this has military applications, that is why the technology will be developed. But we will see it just the same.
Ben
I have taken a subrscription to Scientific American in that Past. It was a good magazine way above omni. I read on off the shelf at work several months ago and it was still informative. But one day many years ago I picked up a copy of the American Journel of Physics and it was then that I understood although Sci Am is good it is Still just a Laymans magazine. I couldn't even touch the Articles in AJoP. What is the equivalent Journal for Electrical and Mechanical Engineers?? I don't know.
Ben
When my dad was stationed in West Germany going to school in the Army for Radar his class was tought by a English speaking German Physicist. And the mindset was not about money but about knowledge. I guess it has changed but I am unable to change to that. I Love knowing something to nth degree. Precision and Mastery are the Holy Grail of Engineering depth of knowledge helps.
I have had a hunch that it was slowing. I mean you can still do all the electronic tinkering you want. What I think is lacking is new Tools. I mean everyone has power supplies,oscilliscopes,DMM, and components. But I think what are also needed is some sort of Numerical Control for soldering VLSI/ULSI componenets onto boards, something that is impossible with a soldiering iron. That one tool If done cheaply and inexpensively could produce the break through to Electronic Hobbyist using DSP's, and uProcossors above the 6811 and Z80's. What could come after that?? Photo/chemical deposition of new circuits to buid new devices in your garage??? That would help as well. But if Amatuer engineering is on the decline than we in 5-7 years will see a massive shortage of electrical engineers at least from America. I don't know any EE today that wasn't into electronics as a hobby before they actually got their degree. Perhas it will be Robotics (not actual robots but just their industrial/numerical control counterparts) that will jump the gap and put modern technology back into the realm of the hobbyist??
Just my.02c
Ben
Where I went to school their was a professor who was the Major Programming God at our school, he was responsible for most the system level programming down out at the local branch of the FFA named Will Rogers World Airport. He wrote all the code in Assembler (because that is what he knows) He refuses to teach courses in Java. He only teaches C and Assembler and COBOL. Upon entering into his class you have to take your notes from the board all the while he grumbles on about Java and all other scripting languages being complete SHITE. He is not wrong of course. And he realizes full well that they are two different tools and yes it almost reminds me of Bartleby the Schrivner I don't feel sorry for him at all, I really and truly feel sorry for everyone who missed the GOLDEN AGE OF COMP SCI and the period from about 1956 to 1987. I didn't get in on the Computer stuff until 1978, but I think back and feel the most incredible sense of awe by what was going on.
Diversity is the only thing that is going to save the programmers working wage from downward pressure. So lefts face it, Programmers need high wages and business owners don't want to pay them. I am the latter , trying to be the former. As A business owner I don't want to pay my employees much, costs to much money. As someone who wants to program for a living (because he loves it so) I want upwards wage pressure so I can do what I love and eat to. The numbers of people who know VB/Java/C# is going to climb rapidly. Especially when the.NET platform is so expandable. This is a bad thing to me. It is cool technologically speaking from the point of view of what it trys to accomplish, how well it does this while retaining speed, minimalist code size,etc (which I have not heard good things about) is something different. And it is a bad thing when it comes to keeping multiple ideas from multiple independant (competing) companies. So with the manner in which it is expandable is also one more way in which the programmer will experience negative wage pressure. Its like the Industrialist of old. Its better to own the ORE (because you own the mines) the factories (which use the ORE) the railways which it is shipped by and the distribution channels retail channels themselves. Why because it saves money and makes you money. So goes Microsoft (believe me if I were in gates shoes I would do no different). But in the end it will cause Stagnation (as it already has) and with no exploration of NEW technologies it will cause their to be a large pool of programmers and systems of one kind. I sit here and watch Intel and Microsoft do what they do and its cool and all, but it leaves little in the way of WOW!! Factor. Programmers should start going out of their way to write Programming Languages that ARE HARD TO USE, HARD TO UNDERSTAND, For new technologies, that will keep the numbers of programmers low and the price and demand of those programmers HIGH as the sky. Its just smart thinking.
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The military wants it first, after they have it for 4 generations then you will see a few consumer applications. But truly it could be made to operate as a virus with any characteristics that could be devised, not just germ or chemical warfare, but say dropped from a fighter plane and then attaching themselves to your target (human,steal,etc.) and then start producing HCL,HF acids of extremely high molarity basically eating a tank to nothing, etc. The more Power they can get an individual unit to generate they could have laser mines, Jamming clouds that float through the sky, Anti Missile devices where they form themselves into a giant net in the path of a missile. You could put them into bullets, tank rounds, missiles, gernades, anything. Imagine a floating blankets of Nanites which render a city completely invisible, or bend and flex producing an extremly tough almost impenetrable armor for individual soldiers, tanks. An Airplane wing with flexes over it entire length a MISSION ADAPTIVE WING, which is as strong a titanium and composite can make, but as flexible and sensitive to airflow as a sparrows feathers. The applications are limitless. And truly astounding, and because you see this has military applications, that is why the technology will be developed. But we will see it just the same. Ben
I have taken a subrscription to Scientific American in that Past. It was a good magazine way above omni. I read on off the shelf at work several months ago and it was still informative. But one day many years ago I picked up a copy of the American Journel of Physics and it was then that I understood although Sci Am is good it is Still just a Laymans magazine. I couldn't even touch the Articles in AJoP. What is the equivalent Journal for Electrical and Mechanical Engineers?? I don't know. Ben
When my dad was stationed in West Germany going to school in the Army for Radar his class was tought by a English speaking German Physicist. And the mindset was not about money but about knowledge. I guess it has changed but I am unable to change to that. I Love knowing something to nth degree. Precision and Mastery are the Holy Grail of Engineering depth of knowledge helps.
I have had a hunch that it was slowing. I mean you can still do all the electronic tinkering you want. What I think is lacking is new Tools. I mean everyone has power supplies,oscilliscopes,DMM, and components. But I think what are also needed is some sort of Numerical Control for soldering VLSI/ULSI componenets onto boards, something that is impossible with a soldiering iron. That one tool If done cheaply and inexpensively could produce the break through to Electronic Hobbyist using DSP's, and uProcossors above the 6811 and Z80's. What could come after that?? Photo/chemical deposition of new circuits to buid new devices in your garage??? That would help as well. But if Amatuer engineering is on the decline than we in 5-7 years will see a massive shortage of electrical engineers at least from America. I don't know any EE today that wasn't into electronics as a hobby before they actually got their degree. Perhas it will be Robotics (not actual robots but just their industrial/numerical control counterparts) that will jump the gap and put modern technology back into the realm of the hobbyist?? Just my .02c
Ben
Of course they will never come for the ones who are sharing, those people have very little money as compared to the others. CYNICISM ALERT!
Where I went to school their was a professor who was the Major Programming God at our school, he was responsible for most the system level programming down out at the local branch of the FFA named Will Rogers World Airport. He wrote all the code in Assembler (because that is what he knows) He refuses to teach courses in Java. He only teaches C and Assembler and COBOL. Upon entering into his class you have to take your notes from the board all the while he grumbles on about Java and all other scripting languages being complete SHITE. He is not wrong of course. And he realizes full well that they are two different tools and yes it almost reminds me of Bartleby the Schrivner I don't feel sorry for him at all, I really and truly feel sorry for everyone who missed the GOLDEN AGE OF COMP SCI and the period from about 1956 to 1987. I didn't get in on the Computer stuff until 1978, but I think back and feel the most incredible sense of awe by what was going on.
Diversity is the only thing that is going to save the programmers working wage from downward pressure. So lefts face it, Programmers need high wages and business owners don't want to pay them. I am the latter , trying to be the former. As A business owner I don't want to pay my employees much, costs to much money. As someone who wants to program for a living (because he loves it so) I want upwards wage pressure so I can do what I love and eat to. The numbers of people who know VB/Java/C# is going to climb rapidly. Especially when the .NET platform is so expandable. This is a bad thing to me. It is cool technologically speaking from the point of view of what it trys to accomplish, how well it does this while retaining speed, minimalist code size,etc (which I have not heard good things about) is something different. And it is a bad thing when it comes to keeping multiple ideas from multiple independant (competing) companies. So with the manner in which it is expandable is also one more way in which the programmer will experience negative wage pressure. Its like the Industrialist of old. Its better to own the ORE (because you own the mines) the factories (which use the ORE) the railways which it is shipped by and the distribution channels retail channels themselves. Why because it saves money and makes you money. So goes Microsoft (believe me if I were in gates shoes I would do no different). But in the end it will cause Stagnation (as it already has) and with no exploration of NEW technologies it will cause their to be a large pool of programmers and systems of one kind. I sit here and watch Intel and Microsoft do what they do and its cool and all, but it leaves little in the way of WOW!! Factor. Programmers should start going out of their way to write Programming Languages that ARE HARD TO USE, HARD TO UNDERSTAND, For new technologies, that will keep the numbers of programmers low and the price and demand of those programmers HIGH as the sky. Its just smart thinking.