Moore's Law Ain't Dead Yet

[Bob Schroeck]

Australian researchers create a transistor with only 7 atoms.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[ordnance11]

So the next step is finding a way to for mass production.
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

[Bob Schroeck]

So give it five to ten years...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Black Aeronaut]

Less, Bob. Nanofacturing technology is just around the corner. Besides, this isn't the smallest one that's ever been made. Two other groups have made one-atom transistors. Anyone else think we're well on our way to a technological singularity?

[Herr Bad Moon]

The researchers are a long way from a commercial process because the tiny transistor they created was handmade. The team used a scanning tunnelling microscope to move the phosphorus atoms into place.

That sounds like a super hero origin story waiting to happen.
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Jon
"And that must have caused my dad's brain to break in half, replaced by a purely mechanical engine of revenge!"

[Ebony]

The researchers are a long way from a commercial process because the tiny transistor they created was handmade. The team used a scanning tunnelling microscope to move the phosphorus atoms into place.

That sounds like a super hero origin story waiting to happen.

Either that, or a horrible industrial accident. I'm hoping for the former.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

[Bob Schroeck]

There's a difference between the two?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[The Wanderer]

Oh, certainly. There are dozens of superheroes whose origins don't have anything to do with any sort of industrial accident, and there have been dozens of horrible industrial accidents which don't seem - so far - to have produced any superheroes (or supervillains) that we've yet heard about.

There does, however, seem to be a disproportionate correlation between the two types of event...