Single atom transistors? SWEET! Seems we’re well on track of the Moore’s law trend up to 2020 but what happens after that?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue4z9lB5ZHg&feature=player_embedded

After that they become self aware and star evolving at a geometric rate.

But I don't mind. I for one welcome our new digital overlords!

Projected robotics timeline

Robots capable of manual labour tasks--

2009 - robots that perform searching and fetching tasks in unmodified library environment, Professor Angel del Pobil (University Jaume I, Spain), 2004[5]
2015-2020 - every South Korean household will have a robot and many European, The Ministry of Information and Communication (South Korea), 2007
2018 - robots will routinely carry out surgery, South Korea government 2007
2022 - intelligent robots that sense their environment, make decisions, and learn are used in 30% of households and organizations - TechCast
2030 - robots capable of performing at human level at most manual jobs Marshall Brain
2034 - robots (home automation systems) performing most household tasks, Helen Greiner, Chairman of iRobot Military robots
2015 - one third of US fighting strength will be composed of robots - US Department of Defense, 2006
2035 - first completely autonomous robot soldiers in operation - US Department of Defense, 2006



Developments related to robotics from the Japan NISTEP 2030 report :

2013-2014 — agricultural robots (AgRobots
2013-2017 — robots that care for the elderly
2017 — medical robots performing low-invasive surgery
2017-2019 — household robots with full use.
2019-2021 — Nanorobots
2021-2022 — Transhumanism

The problem is it needs to operate at extreme low temperature(-150C something). It'll take a while before we can see that technology on main stream CPUs. Nevertheless it's absolutely amazing.

The holodeck.

So how soon can I get a new Radeon card with single atom transistors?

Cheers!

Rick...