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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Nano Computers

According to a group of researchers calling themselves the Nanocomputer Dream Team, November 1st, 2011 is the day they'll unveil a revolutionary kind of computer, the most powerful ever seen. Their nanocomputer will be made out of atoms. Moving individual atoms around at will sounds like fantasy, but it's already been demonstrated in the lab. In 1989, scientists at IBM used an electron microscope to shuffle 35 xenon atoms into the shape of their company's logo. Since then a team at IBM's Zurich labs has achieved the incredible feat of creating a working abacus on the atomic scale. Nanocomputers, if they ever appear, will be extraordinary things. But if, like most computer systems, they have bugs, they could also be very nasty, as well. Of all the future technologies, Nanotechnology is the most exciting. By 2011, Nanocomputers can become a reality as a team claims to be working on it. A nanocomputer basically means atomic computer whose dimensions will be microscopic. Scientists and researchers have been working on suggestions for electronic, chemical, biochemical and quantum nanocomputers