A breakthrough for the Nanites!

I was just checking out EurekAlert! and found this interesting article about a breakthrough with nano-scale electronics...The days of the RFID chip are actually here...This little baby will enable complex micro processing chips to be placed in pretty much everything (including us). It will connect people to everything in their environment and boost all human capabilities. For some interesting analysis check out the entire Kurzweil AI net web site. He foresees a singularity event (an event after which we can no longer predict what comes next) within the next 40 years or so and nano-technology is one of the necessary major breakthroughs (similar to industrial and the information revolutions) for this singularity to foment.

Public Release: 30-Jun-2006
Journal of American Chemical Society
Jumpy electrons make chromophores semiconductors suitable for nanoscale electronics.
The future of high-speed electronics might very well be defined by linking together small, "electrically jumpy" molecules called chromophores. Electrical charges can zip along chains of linked chromophores faster than any electrical charge yet observed in organic semiconductors, beating the previous benchmark in this regard by a factor of three. Chromophore-based circuitry that could create nano-sized electronic components that can do anything that organic semiconductors currently do, only much faster.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy

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