Arthur Hanson
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Shrinking experiments to microscopic size on a chip is going to be the new wave in science of all types. Below is but one example. Shrinking the size of the experiment dramatically lowers the cost and especially the danger when dealing with dangerous substances. A few molecules of even a radioactive substance pose little or now danger and using this method can be done in the average lab, instead of one costing tens of millions of dollars or more. As individual parts of chips get ever smaller and can be mass produced at low cost, whole labs with multistep processes could be built using advanced semi and mems technologies. This would reduce the cost even further for you would only need to use the specialty functions your particular experiment or test needs on a mass produced chip that could be used under a broad range of experimentation. With technology advancing these chips could evolve from single use devices to ones that could be used over and over again further reducing the cost.
With mems/sensors/power sources/memory/computational/communications all shrinking with cost dropping while increasing performance this could dramatically advance science by lowering the cost, dramatically increasing the depth and breadth of experimentation from where it is now. In the future we could even have sophisticated desk top labs at home, just like powerful computers are now in almost every home. This could become a high value business for the semi industry in the future with great benefit mankind and science. It could also lower the cost of high cost educational experimentation, taking sophisticated work to the educational level.
The combination of mems, processing power, sensing, memory and connectivity in one shrinking in ever more powerful packages is going to create markets that touch everything we do and literally staggering opportunities for the nanotech industry of all types. This should provide the semi sector that has mastered nanotech like no other sector, large growth opportunities far into the future to be only limited by the imagination.
One fact we can count on, size and cost will shrink, while performance, functionality and market penetration will grow. All will improve at an ever increasing rate, contributing to the "Great Acceleration".
https://www.technologyreview.com/th...-chip-strings-together-10-model-human-organs/
This could lead to a dramatic acceleration of our knowledge of everything by dramatically lowering the cost of research. Imagine almost anyone having access to a top end lab on a chip. The smart phone could be the interface and processing power and even AI if linked to the cloud. The implications of this are almost beyond comprehension.
Not only research, but as a monitoring tool in everything from medical for our bodies to everything in environmental to equipment monitoring this offers a mega markets to the semi/nanotech industry with a large runway in several areas.
With mems/sensors/power sources/memory/computational/communications all shrinking with cost dropping while increasing performance this could dramatically advance science by lowering the cost, dramatically increasing the depth and breadth of experimentation from where it is now. In the future we could even have sophisticated desk top labs at home, just like powerful computers are now in almost every home. This could become a high value business for the semi industry in the future with great benefit mankind and science. It could also lower the cost of high cost educational experimentation, taking sophisticated work to the educational level.
The combination of mems, processing power, sensing, memory and connectivity in one shrinking in ever more powerful packages is going to create markets that touch everything we do and literally staggering opportunities for the nanotech industry of all types. This should provide the semi sector that has mastered nanotech like no other sector, large growth opportunities far into the future to be only limited by the imagination.
One fact we can count on, size and cost will shrink, while performance, functionality and market penetration will grow. All will improve at an ever increasing rate, contributing to the "Great Acceleration".
https://www.technologyreview.com/th...-chip-strings-together-10-model-human-organs/
This could lead to a dramatic acceleration of our knowledge of everything by dramatically lowering the cost of research. Imagine almost anyone having access to a top end lab on a chip. The smart phone could be the interface and processing power and even AI if linked to the cloud. The implications of this are almost beyond comprehension.
Not only research, but as a monitoring tool in everything from medical for our bodies to everything in environmental to equipment monitoring this offers a mega markets to the semi/nanotech industry with a large runway in several areas.
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