{"id":32578,"date":"2016-12-12T16:52:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T00:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/a-virus-sized-computing-device"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:58:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:58:43","slug":"a-virus-sized-computing-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/a-virus-sized-computing-device","title":{"rendered":"A virus-sized computing device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-virus-sized-computing-device.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara, have designed a functional nanoscale computing element that could be packed into a space no bigger than 50 nanometres on any side.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-virus-sized-computing-device.jpg\" width=\"970\" height=\"764\" border=\"0\" alt=\"red blood cell nanotechnology nanotech future timeline\"><\/p>\n<p>In 1959, renowned physicist Richard Feynman, in his talk \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.msu.edu\/~yang\/RFeynman_plentySpace.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Plenty of Room at the Bottom<\/a>\u201d spoke of a future in which tiny machines could perform huge feats. Like many forward-looking concepts, his molecule and atom-sized world remained for years in the realm of science fiction. And then, scientists and other creative thinkers began to realise Feynman\u2019s nanotechnological visions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futuretimeline.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/3-3.htm#.WE80INV96M-\">http:\/\/www.futuretimeline.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/3&#45;3.htm#.WE80INV96M-<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara, have designed a functional nanoscale computing element that could be packed into a space no bigger than 50 nanometres on any side. In 1959, renowned physicist Richard Feynman, in his talk \u201cPlenty of Room at the Bottom\u201d spoke of a future in which tiny machines could perform huge [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65606,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32578\/revisions\/65606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}