Month: September 2022

UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES. "Unlike lattices of atoms, photonic crystals have structural possibilities limited only by the human imagination. Any shape can be sculpted at the lattice sites." Nature has been experimenting with these natural semiconductors for millions of years, and the parade of iridescent coloration in nature is also the roadmap for future industries. https://lnkd.in/eKrjXgP View in LinkedIn

SMART DUST is a major goal of intensive research in academia and industry. Proponents cite the many practice applications and problems that may be possible to solve with this technology. But much less is said about the dark side. The military has long been interested in the topic, along with robotics. View in LinkedIn

MILITARY AND SMART DUST. "Apparently, DARPA and the Rand Corporation have been working on smart dust since the early 1990s (as you would expect), and smart dust has made it to Gartner's Hype Cycle For Emerging Technology." https://lnkd.in/eSBshT3 View in LinkedIn

MICRO-DRONES. "Termed “smart dust,” these miniature versions of our contemporary drones are only a generation or two or three away from realization. In fact, they have been in development at DARPA for over twenty years. As originally envisioned by the geniuses at RAND, smart dust will eventually be a combination of “microeletromechanical” systems or MEMS." http://www.theascender.org/power-smart-dust/ View in LinkedIn

UBIQUITOUS PRESENCE. "The next generation of computers will be able to carry out complex calculations but will be little bigger than a snowflake. The plan is for such sensor-packed machines to be embedded in buildings and objects in their hundreds or even thousands, providing constant updates on the world around us." https://lnkd.in/eJg-jHE View in LinkedIn

UBIQUITOUS MONITORING. "But the ubiquity of smart dust- the instant availability of computing power and the blanket sensor coverage – means that this technological change will drive social change. The diffusion of computing into the environment will mean not just that computing power is always available, but that this computing power will drive ubiquitous monitoring and surveillance." https://lnkd.in/dxQi7Ww View in LinkedIn

HACKING. "What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Help, My Chair Has a Virus! Hackers could turn your programmable matter against you." https://lnkd.in/dzmMmjE View in LinkedIn

WAR FOR SHELF SPACE. "Data leads to data led decisions. In the later case – whether those hands are governmental or corporate – we could end up in the middle of a smart dust war, where competing networks battle for ground – in the air around you, even on your skin. We stand at the edge of another paradigm shift in computing, which like the smart phone, and the desktop computer before that, will drive social change." https://lnkd.in/dxQi7Ww View in LinkedIn

EMBEDDED INFORMATION. "In the information age, it seems inevitable that we’re eventually going to start building information, and computation, into the building blocks of matter itself." https://lnkd.in/dzmMmjE View in LinkedIn

NEW EPIPHANY. "You can program everything from bits, to atoms, and even large-scale structures." https://lnkd.in/e74uquz View in LinkedIn