Lines blur between humans and computers
August 14, 2009
Scientists are now managing to build computers from a mixture of manmade and biological materials.
A group of scientists working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced that they have managed to construct platforms for circuit boards by combining nanowires with lipids, an organic compound found in living cells. Aleksandr Noy, one of the scientists working on the project said, “Electronic circuits that use these complex biological components could become much more efficient.” The hybrid materials will be able to convert signals at a much faster rate than any of the most powerful computers available today.
At the end of 2007 at the University of Arizona, a scientist announced that he had been able to hook up a moth’s brain to some electronics and control a small robot with it. Early the following year, scientists in Japan and the U.S. announced that they had successfully managed to utilize the brain of a monkey to control a humanoid robot.
At MIT researchers announced this year that they could build powerful batteries by combining genetically engineered viruses with nano-technology. The results are harmless to humans, but could be used to power anything from mobile phones to electric cars.
CTO and senior fellow at Intel Corp., Justin Rattner said in an interview recently that we may be as little as three years away from seeing the lines begin to blur between human and machine intelligence.
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