Utility Fog and OOP
No doubt there will come a time when manufacturing happens at a molecular level. Utility Fog holds an interesting promise of creating objects out of seemingly thin air. Imagine snapping your fingers and a chair appears. Or a car. Some pretty wild concepts.
The big problem is getting processors that small. But what if self selecting nanoprograms were able to arrange themselves into a form of a complete program. The way we think of complex instruction set computing, or even reduced instruction set computing should undergo the same transformative thinking. If we're talking about nanotech modules do we really need each to be fully capable of executing all instructions? (Yes we know this is still theoretical.)
Having a polymorphic nanoprogram that knew, for instance how to move, it may be more inclined to bind with a set of foglets that arranged themselves into a movable object, but less so for a chair object.
The challenge for computer scientists is how to represent foglets as attractors to self form themselves into a representation of an object.
Any takers?
The big problem is getting processors that small. But what if self selecting nanoprograms were able to arrange themselves into a form of a complete program. The way we think of complex instruction set computing, or even reduced instruction set computing should undergo the same transformative thinking. If we're talking about nanotech modules do we really need each to be fully capable of executing all instructions? (Yes we know this is still theoretical.)
Having a polymorphic nanoprogram that knew, for instance how to move, it may be more inclined to bind with a set of foglets that arranged themselves into a movable object, but less so for a chair object.
The challenge for computer scientists is how to represent foglets as attractors to self form themselves into a representation of an object.
Any takers?
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