Arthur C. Clarke once said that any far advanced technology would be perceived as magic. I think we are close to some real magic:
"Researchers at the University of Alberta are reporting a breakthrough in the development of molecular transistors, devices that function on the atomic scale and could lead to a quantum leap in computer miniaturization.
The results of the work by a team led by Robert Wolkow, a physics professor at the university and the program leader for Canada's National Institute for Nanotechnology, have been published in the scientific journal Nature.
Wolkow said his team demonstrated that a molecule could be controllably charged by a single atom while all adjacent atoms remained neutral.
The molecule thus becomes a nanotech version, Wolkow said, of a common transistor -- the device used to control the flow of electricity in virtually all electronic equipment."
Big implications from molecule's use as transistor
