We're talking about maybe a few hundred atoms here. Even if we get a few million or billion (10^9), Avogadro's Number is (IIRC) 6x10^23 so the mass involved is negligible. Hence, no building super-materials. The real use is being able to measure gravity with great precision and do other kewl stuff.
"Maybe prior art searches will improve once the USPTO moves into the new two million square foot USPTO campus..."
Maybe prior art searches will improve when the management of the USPTO gets their heads out of their collective recta and grant examiners non-production time to generate keyword cross references which might actually make computer searches useful. And when the contractors in the filing room start filing stuff in the general vicinity of where it belongs. And when new employees are given training to do their jobs. And when the examiners can get on the network to do searches. And when foreign patent databases are searchable (a friend works @ the USPTO and he says because the japanese patents are no longer translated, in a couple of years HALF of the patents he grants will be invalid!)
"The beatings will continue until morale improves."
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We're talking about maybe a few hundred atoms here. Even if we get a few million or billion (10^9), Avogadro's Number is (IIRC) 6x10^23 so the mass involved is negligible. Hence, no building super-materials. The real use is being able to measure gravity with great precision and do other kewl stuff.
... of -2 morale (military effectiveness), +2 industry, +2 economy and maybe an efficiency boost in SMAC/X (Sid Meier's Aplha Centauri)
"Maybe prior art searches will improve once the USPTO moves into the new two million square foot USPTO campus ..."
Maybe prior art searches will improve when the management of the USPTO gets their heads out of their collective recta and grant examiners non-production time to generate keyword cross references which might actually make computer searches useful. And when the contractors in the filing room start filing stuff in the general vicinity of where it belongs. And when new employees are given training to do their jobs. And when the examiners can get on the network to do searches. And when foreign patent databases are searchable (a friend works @ the USPTO and he says because the japanese patents are no longer translated, in a couple of years HALF of the patents he grants will be invalid!)
"The beatings will continue until morale improves."