Technology has immortality, cures for the worlds devastating diseases, quantum computing and a host of other science fiction notions in its grasp. Current trends in a number of areas indicate that over the next 10 years many of these technologies will come to fruition. "The Next 10 Years" tracks the trends that will transform our everyday lives in almost unimaginable ways.

Monday, June 19, 2006

LiveScience.com - Molecule-sized Switch Could Control DNA Machines: "COLOGNE, GERMANY— A molecule-sized switch just 50 nanometers wide may someday control microscopic machines and also could make DNA sequencing faster, less expensive, and more precise.
Just about any machine depends on switches to turn this on or that off. And fully functioning nano-machines will need switches that are just as small as they are. Molecular switches, or 'mol-switches,' also could control larger devices and they could send information about the nano-world to remote, conventionally sized, sensors."

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