Методические указания по теме "Моя специальность" для студентов 2 курса отделения "Прикладная информатика (в экономике)". Терехова Г.В. - 18 стр.

Xerox machine produces unlimited copies without a human retyping the original
information.
      Electronics is fueled by miniaturization. Working smaller has led to the tools
capable of manipulating individual atoms like the proteins in potato manipulate the
atoms of soil, air and water to make copies of itself.
      The shotgun marriage of chemistry and engineering called “Nanotechnology” is
ushering in the era of self-replicating machinery and self-assembling consumer goods
made from cheap raw atoms(Drexler, Merkle paraphrased).
     Nanotechnology is molecular manufacturing or, more simply, building things
one atom or molecules at a time with programmed nanoscopic robot arms. A
nanometer is one billionth of a meter(3 – 4 atoms wide). Unitilizing the well
understood chemical properties of atoms and molecules(how they “stick” together),
nanotechnology proposes the construction of novel molecular devices possessing
extraordinary properties. The trick is to manipulate atoms individually and place
them exactly where needed to produce the desired structure. The ability is almost in
our drasp.
     The anticipated payoff for mastering this technology is far beyond any human
accomplishment so far…
     Technical feasibilities include:

Self – assembling consumer goods
Computers billion of times faster
Extremely novel inventions(impossible today)
Safe and affordable space travel
Medical Nano… virtual end to illness, aging, death
No more pollutions and automatic cleanup of already existing pollution
Molecular food syntheses… end of famine and starvation
Access to a superior education for every child on Earth
Reintroduction of many extinct plants and animals

     From the introduction of the plenary of Dr.Drexleer at the January’96 program of
the twenty – ninth annual Hawaii International Conference on System Science, Maui.
(An academic meeting of software and systems scientist.)

    In a world of information, digital technologies have made copying fast, cheap,
and perfect, quite independent of cost or complexity of the content. What if the same
were to happen in the world of matter?
    The production cost of a ton of terabyte RAM chips would be about the same as
the production cost of steel. Design costs would matter, production costs wouldn’t.

      By treating atoms as discrete, bit – like objects, molecular manufacturing will
bring a digital revolution to the production of material objects. Working at the
resolution limit of matter, it will enable the ultimate in miniaturization and
performance. By starting with cheap, abundant components – molecules – and
progressing them with small, high – productivity machines, it will make products

18