X-Message-Number: 7127
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 10:15:30 -0800 (PST)
From: John K Clark <>
Subject: SCI.CRYONICS Nanotechnology Progress

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In the November 1 1996 issue of Science is an article about The Scanning 
Probe Microscope. These machines can not only see individual atoms they can 
manipulate them too. The trouble is, a one tip microscope, the only kind made 
up to now, is much too slow to build anything of practical value. Researchers 
reasoned that they could speed things up if they had lots of tips running in 
parallel. Calvin Quate of Stanford University has just made a 16 tip 
microscope and has greatly impressed people with the high quality images it 
produces. Others are working on a 144 tip microscope that should be finished 
soon. 
 
What really struck me is something Quate said at the end of the article, he 
predicted that by this time next year "we'll be writing 1-cm by 1-mm areas 
and we'll be doing it very fast".  On the atomic scale 1-cm by 1-mm is a HUGE 
piece of real-estate! Singularity speculation anyone? 
         

                                             John K Clark     


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