[extropy-chat] Computing Power: Moore's Law keeps going and going and going

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Robert Bradbury <robert.bradbury at gmail.com> wrote:
> But more and more it looks like
> people are
> going to have at least hundreds of GFLOPS of processor power,
> wearable,
> powered by fuel cells sucking glucose out of your blood stream within
> the
> next 10 years *without* "real" nanotechnology.

Two thoughts:

* Even if it is made top-down like traditional litho, rather than
  bottom-up molecular-manufacturing-style - if it's dealing with
  individual elements < 1 micron, it's real nanotech.

* The rest of your post only commented on the rise of computer
  chips, and said nothing about glucose-powered fuel cells.
  There'd be quite a market *right now* for glucose-powered
  "fuel cells" that don't actually produce useful amounts of
  power but do consume significant (relative to the average
  obese American's body) amounts of glucose.  (I considered
  doing this a while ago, but decided to devote my efforts to
  seemingly easier advances for the time being.  Still, it does
  not seem like this would be too incredibly difficult for
  someone with more of a biosciences background to put
  together.  It wouldn't be a panacea - it wouldn't do anything
  directly about artery clogs, for example, although perhaps the
  glucose-starved blood might start mining those plaques for
  glucose - but it would directly attack the visible bulges
  that, likely more out of vanity than out of genuine health
  concern, most customers would care most about.)