IBM is already making a beeline to
28nm process technology, but it looks like the train may deviate a bit before it even reaches the bottom. Reportedly, the company responsible for PowerPC, the original business laptop and all sorts of underground things that we'll never comprehend is now looking to use DNA as a model for crafting the world's next great
processor. DNA origami, as it's so tactfully called, can supposedly provide a cheap framework "on which to build tiny microchips," with IBM research manager Spike Narayan proclaiming that this is "the first demonstration of using biological molecules to help with processing in the semiconductor industry." Sir Spike also noted that "if the DNA origami process scales to production-level, manufacturers could trade hundreds of millions of dollars in complex tools for less than a million dollars of polymers, DNA solutions, and heating implements." The actual process still seems murky from here, but we're told to expect real results within ten years. Which should be just in time for the
robot apocalypse to really hit its stride -- awesome.
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posted Aug 17th 2009 10:51AM
No this is high tech!?
Ermm - now even!?!?
LOL
There is so much fail in this post that I expect even this comment to get low-ranked to oblivion...
DON GE JO GUU GUU! ME BA NO TIKI?!?
T_T
DA COMPUTER GO COMPUTING NUMBA U GOTTA GO FRONTIN
Can IBM just work on providing AMD with the best possible technologies and not the crap they have been in the past.
Hey dude - you're first!
Shut up!
Oh - it's just me here then?
...why did you just comment 5 times in a row?
Because I'm stupid!?
Nope, it's much worse, it's called schyzophrenia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schyzophrenia
or a bad combination of Tourette's and Asperger's, lol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette_syndrome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome
@rezaudio - you may consider euthanasia as a viable solution to your problems, just let me know when you change your mind on the subject. I happen to know a renowned eutahnasiologist...
Does this mean that in the future, my CPU has a chance of being blind? or contracting Cancer? Or maybe Alzheimer's? Uh-oh.
If DNA computers are used for folding@home then no, there is no chance ;)
Well, maybe, but chances are YOU may actually catch a CPU ... Like, when it mutates and combines with H1N1, and gets contaminated with Pentium 4, then you'll get a Windows 7 install through a back-door. Then again, you will be able to play GTA4 on a train without a computer, so don't forget to contract a decent graphics as well.
And you'll download your antibiotics from Norton ;D
I thought it was Zombie Apocalypse and Robot Revolution.
Didn't you hear?
The Robots and the Zombies teamed up and merged their respective eschatons; they chose "Robot Apocalypse" ecause "Zombie Revolution" didn't score well with their focus groups.
I hope mine is a girl. With big tits.
This would give a total new meaning to term 'computer viruses' :)
This is where Cylons are born.
Man ive been talking about this for AGES
So what are the possibilities of a computer to human virus or vice versa? Is this how the borg started?
"Spike Narayan" ? Indian trying to act cool much?
exactly what i thought... who has name like "spike" narayan......
Apparently an IBM research manager.
yeah, but I bet he doesn't talk like a 9 year old high school girl, much?
I suggest IBM renames the dept. responsible with developing these to Maas Neotek Biolabs.
Also call them biochips.
hey, life is immitating art anway, why not use the same names and skip the confusion?
I Like Butter!
is this like an artificial brain or what?
I think the idea of IBM is not to create and/or modify a new creature using a custom DNA. Instead, they will use the concept that a small portion of DNA can store a-lot-of-information (yottabytes of information, see wikipedia), then we can do the same and storing computer information using DNA.
So, in a (not so near) future, we will be able to copy Internet into a dna pendrive.
Or SF talking.
"backup my dna into a dna-pendrive" (just in case).
and to do the opposite
"restore the dna-pendrive into a blank-host" (Verbatim-RW blank body media)
DNA origami is more to do with assembly than encoding of computer information.
You can design a large 2D DNA molecule with non-paired ("sticky") regions within it. Then you can attach the corresponding sequences of DNA to nanosized parts and mix it in with the base — the thing will construct itself due to basepairing rules. It's a way of making components chemically rather than mechanically.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_origami
DNA is only special in the context of cells because cells have the machinery to convert information encoded in the DNA into protein.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7082/abs/nature04586.html
you can also fold DNA in 3D.
just use this prorgam http://www.cdna.dk/index.php/software.html
it is pretty easy, pretty cool
What's the point if the world is gonna end in 3 years anyway?
Maybe if we got it into mainstream production in a year we could prevent the apocalypse... or cause it, time is wibbly wobbly like that.
Remember in Transformers the movie when the Australian girl is talking with Voight an says something about DNA based computers? haha.. maybe not far from the truth in the near future.
I bet fringe scientists have been working on this type of thing for years.
"DNA Origami" isn't about using DNA to create living organisms, or even anything that we would consider "organic." The idea is to create complex structures by using the chemical properties of DNA. They can use small "staples" of DNA to bind certain pieces of a long string of unraveled DNA, effectively folding it into whatever shapes they like. It's still preliminary so far, but with some research, the goal is to be able to "fold" things like cellphones, microchips, etc...
@Continuties
what do you mean? We are already folding things in 3 dimensions such as the DNA box with a controllable lid (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7243/full/nature07971.html). And In "2D" (which still is 3D of course just only one layer) they can make what ever they want, with the above mentioned origami software. Not much preliminary about it, except if you consider your own goal of a dna cellphone for the ultimate goal (?).
And I dont get what you mean when you write "that we would consider "organic"", of course it is organic it is DNA but it is not "alive" if that is what you mean.
anyway it is a very powerful technique with incredible potential in ultra specific small dose medicine.