Year: 2022

NANO AND FOG. "The only major breakthrough necessary to enable us to build the Fog world is nanotechnology itself. Assemblers, the sine qua non of nanotechnology, will require two major feats of molecular engineering: building molecular-sized, individually controllable, physical actuators, arms, motors, gears, sprockets, pulleys, and the like; and then building molecular sized computers to control them." https://lnkd.in/ebphx-d View in LinkedIn

UNDETECTED GRANULARITY LOWER LIMIT. "The only constraint on size is the ability to form a smooth enough surface to fool human senses. The lower limit, based on designs from Nanosystems, is about a 1 or 2 micron body and 5 to 10 micron arms." https://lnkd.in/ebphx-d View in LinkedIn

UNDETECTED GRANULARITY UPPER LIMIT. "The upper limit for completely undetectable granularity is probably about 50 to 100 microns, the range of diameter of human hair. If “super high fidelity” isn’t critical, 1 mm Foglets would likely be able to do all the physical tasks of interest." https://lnkd.in/ebphx-d View in LinkedIn

NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLD FOGLETS NEEDED. "Fog needs the self-reproducing productivity of nanotechnology to be economical. After all, filling an average house with even coarse 1 mm Foglets requires over a trillion of them, and for the hi-fi Foglets it’s a quadrillion (10^15) of them." https://lnkd.in/ebphx-d View in LinkedIn

COST ESTIMATES. "For you to be able to afford them they’d better cost less than $0.00000000001 apiece. (If you were very very rich, you might be able to afford $0.000000001 Foglets.)" https://lnkd.in/ebphx-d View in LinkedIn

MACHINE MENTAL INTIMACY. "With proper programming the Fog would almost be able to read your mind. This combination of extreme reactivity to control and virtually limitless creative and operational ability suggest a comparison with the Krell machine in "Forbidden Planet"." https://lnkd.in/eik9_rZ View in LinkedIn

HOLODECK. "You could actually push this technology to the point of creating a virtual world around you ... You'd essentially get Star Trek's holodeck — one that could actually cut you and make you bleed." https://lnkd.in/eik9_rZ View in LinkedIn

HYBRID REALITY. "Hall foresees the day when utility fogs will blend seamlessly with the real and virtual worlds, creating a kind of hybrid reality in between. "You could put yourself in a virtual environment where you're interacting with something that leads to a real environment ... and it's this interface between what's real and virtual that will prove to be the most important thing about it." https://lnkd.in/eik9_rZ View in LinkedIn

UPLOADED MIND. "But utility fogs may have an even more radical application than that — there's also the potential for people to upload their minds directly into this nano-infused cloud. "You could very realistically imagine uploading into it ... and then you'd be this sort of formless data amoeba controlling this formless physical amoeba and take any size or form you wanted." https://lnkd.in/eik9_rZ View in LinkedIn

RAY KURTZWEIL'S VISION. "Uploading human minds to computers controlling robotic bodies with superhuman capabilities. Consisting entirely of replaceable parts, and provided with safe, out-of-body storage of their memories and psychological states, these beings will be effectively immortal." https://lnkd.in/eiVDpvQ View in LinkedIn