From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Fri Aug 16 2002 - 05:41:57 MDT
On Friday, August 16, 2002, at 04:05 am, Anders Sandberg wrote:
>> (Do they have tinker-toys in Sweden? There were wonderfully creative
>> little wooden spokes and hubs that could be put together into fantastic
>> creations which remind me of your ball-and-stick diagrams. See
>> <http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/toys/ty1079.php> if you
>> have no idea what I'm rambling about.)
>
> I know what you mean, but I played with legos instead as a child. Hmm,
> maybe there will be two different paradigms in nanotech, the people who
> played with tinkertoys and the ones who played with lego as a child. One
> doing high density structures, the other low density.
We should invent NanoToys(TM) that have different colors for different
atoms and actually connect only as real atoms would. If it were
structured right, only valid molecules could be built. Even if we
couldn't build physical parts to do this, we could certainly have a
cheap chip inside each one to accept or reject pieces as they were
plugged in, and to adjust angles and distances.
Kids would learn nanotech instinctively from an early age. And we could
keep up revenue by updating the toys as new nanotech information is
discovered.
Even cooler would be if they were automated to attract, repel and
combine like real atoms. Any NanoToy(TM) structure should then assemble
other NanoToy(TM) structures if it were built right. (Of course a
self-replicating toy would keep asking the kid to buy more toys....)
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>
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