Year: 2022

WHEN? "And in terms of when we can expect utility fogs to make their appearance, Hall says it should come about in the neighborhood of around 2030 — but no later than 2040. "Any later than that," said Hall, "and I would be profoundly disappointed." https://lnkd.in/eik9_rZ View in LinkedIn

WHOLE BODY DATAGLOVE. "Since you’re embedded in the Fog, it can sense every detail of your bodily position. It forms a “whole-body dataglove”, and you can control it with extremely subtle gestures. At the ultimate extreme, the Foglets can carry various special sensors ranging from simple electrodes with voltmeters to SQIDs and form an extremely high bandwidth polygraph." https://lnkd.in/ebphx-d View in LinkedIn

SWARM BOTS. "As early as in 1964, the idea of robotic swarms has been described by Stanislaw Lem in the novel The Invincible, which is set on a planet where the ecology has been taken over by micro-robotic "swarms", evolved in the process of robotic wars and which can congregate in larger structures in response to threats." https://lnkd.in/eM3mJB6 View in LinkedIn

SWARMBOTS FORM SPECIFIC SHAPES, video from Harvard. https://lnkd.in/e84ZrEc View in LinkedIn

CLAYTRONICS AND SMART DUST. "But perhaps the most fascinating possibility of all comes from combining aspects of both claytronics and smart dust. Utility fog ... describes a collection of microscale robots called "foglets" that spread out widely under normal situations but lock together as a solid when commanded in any shape." https://lnkd.in/d6UF5U9 View in LinkedIn

UTILITY FOG. "In essence, the utility fog would be a polymorphic material comprised of trillions of interlinked microscopic ‘foglets', each equipped with a tiny computer. These nanobots would be capable of exerting force in all three dimensions, thus enabling the larger emergent object to take on various shapes and textures." Like a seatbelt. https://lnkd.in/eik9_rZ View in LinkedIn

MODERN ALCHEMY. "Utility fogs will be capable of some incredible things. They'll be able to make objects appear and disappear on command, and even make them hover and fly around. And through such forces as squeezing, hitting, and pulling, they'll also be able to manipulate objects in the environment." http://io9.com/5932880/how-utility-fogs-could-become-the-technology-that-changes-the-world View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE this weekend continues with the mysterious L-form bacteria, and their curious link to vitamin D metabolism. Some serious scientists have speculated that this nexus is the cause of a number of chronic illnesses, while others have gone as far as to develop untested treatment methods based on this hypothesis. View in LinkedIn

BACTERIAL PERSISTENCE. "Essential to the thesis is that small, electron dense, non-vesiculated L-forms are the central (core) element in bacterial persistence. Depending on the stimulus received, these dense forms might be considered as undifferentiated cells, with the capacity to develop along several different routes." http://www.discoverymedicine.com/Gerald-J-Domingue/2010/09/23/demystifying-pleomorphic-forms-in-persistence-and-expression-of-disease-are-they-bacteria-and-is-peptidoglycan-the-solution/ View in LinkedIn

ALTERNATIVE TO GENETIC THEORY. "There is also evidence to suggest that L-forms can survive within the ovum and sperm and also that they can pass through the placental barrier, meaning that illnesses that run in families may be infective rather than genetic in nature. The infant can also acquire infections at or after birth, before their adaptive immune system is up and running." https://lnkd.in/dTCkxDw View in LinkedIn