Nanotube radio is almost here
As I struggle to get a good and stable wireless signal on my new laptop, the guys at Berkeley come up with a radio measured in Nanometres. Below is an interesting image to show the timeline of the evolution of radio.
The only thing that bothers me about all this, will we need to have Nano fingers to change the station?
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No seriously, I think there are a lot of things we take for granted. Electricity for one. Have you ever been in a long power cut at night? We feel totally hopeless, you have no hot water, no light (obviously) so you end up walking around the house holding your mobile phone up in front of you, no TV, no internet and if the power is down for a long time you start worrying about the food in your fridge or your house getting too cold for the kids.
It makes you wander how people, just over a century ago, managed without it?
I think we are incredibly lucky.
Our parents saw the first images on TV, the landing on the moon, the very first computers, we saw the birth of the internet, mobile phones, GPS, satellites, people living in space… (I know I have forgotten many very obvious ones, feel free to fill in the gaps with your comments)
What will our kids discover?
Call me boring if you want, but isn’t science incredible? Isn’t it truly amasing?
This does raise a question. All those discoveries have happened in the last few centuries. We have been on this planet now for millions of years. What happened exactly to increase the technology so much in such a short amount of time? If this is evolution, then evolution is certainly not linear.
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