Smart Dust

Smart Dust is coming as "Researchers at I.B.M laboratories say they have made progress toward storing information and computing at the level of individual atoms.". The first paper deals with the storing of information at atomic level while the other details success in building a single molecule switch "replicating the behavior of today’s transistors."

To read a more detailed article about IBM's research, click on the image below.

At the same time IBM published these papers, HP is designing "a circuit called a field programmable gate array, or F.P.G.A., using molecular-scale components as the configuration circuitry, an approach that will save tremendous space in the chip design."

Click on the image to get Physorg's take on the IBM achievement.
It's a good read.

What this means is that supercomuters the size of dust motes becomes feasible and...tech like this will be EVERYHERE.

Something to think about, n'est pas?