Non fiction

Ännu en artikel om biobränsleproducerande bakterier: "A newly created microbe -- a genetically altered cyanobacterium -- produces cellulose that can be turned into ethanol and other biofuels, report scientists from the University of Texas at Austin."

Ytterligare ett hinder i vägen för Moore's law undanröjt: "Duke University chemists have found a way to grow long, straight cylinders only a few atoms thick in very large numbers, removing a major roadblock in the pursuit of nano-scale electronics." ... "This would break a logjam for reproducing enough of them in identical form to build into working devices"´

Och det här om kvantdatorer är bara sjukt: "If current rates of miniaturization persist, your PC will store one bit on one atom sometime around 2050" ... "A conventional electronic computer, in which each bit registers either 0 or 1, is enslaved by binary logic; but a quantum bit, or "qubit," can register 0 and 1 at the same time" ... "tackle hard problems that classical computers couldn't solve with all the time in the universe"... "In November of last year, D-Wave demonstrated what it claimed was a 28-qubit adiabatic quantum computer". Nåja. Det är inte riktigt bevisat ännu, men jag räknar med att det svåra i framtiden blir att komma på vad vi vill göra, inte vad vi kan göra.