I guess that falls under the Reporters & Editors Not Knowing Their Subject category. Well... they're over worked. <vbg>
But speaking of reporters... one at EDN's website made a reference to this URL which includes a visual tour of various measurements from the infinitely small to the infinitely grand:
nikon.co.jp
The prose included is a little too artsy for my taste but the graphics are interesting, if not colorful. Their depiction of a "quantum dot" was the first I've seen of such structures and looks more like a crystalline corn crib or silo. I could think of many things to call it, but "dot" would not be among them.
Homo sapiens could see and do some incredible things in another thousand years... The post CMOS age alone could make for shocking changes in our "technological society" of the next 18 years much less the next millenium. But we seem to be "aging" much faster than the dinosaurs and in 25 years I suspect we could easily have an entirely new definition of the term "society."
Technology has already done much to force amazing changes in the way we relate to the world and each other. Whether it's the walls of our cells, homes, city limits, state and national borders... technology is eliminating much of the power that time and distance used to hold.
The law, religion, sex, work, war... everything we do, and everything we are, must make some form of adjustment. There is no "opt-out" clause, no off switch and no hiding place. Sure we can object, toss in a monkey wrench, openly rebel... and we do so constantly... But have you noticed that the more credible we make our opposition, the more efficient and powerful the technology becomes?
Whine about anti abortion "walls" loudly enough and presto... you get all manner of new bio-engineering production, amazing little pills, and far more efficient and seemly "morning after abortions" than you could have ever dreamed possible.
But then we're slow to catch on. I suppose that has a lot to do with the "surprising" absence of an anti rape or anti violence "spray" on the market. Although some might say this is just a problem of poor marketing in the pepper spray sector, I suspect there's a deeper problem at work. But perhaps an increase in the level of estrogen in board rooms and bio-engineering labs could fix that. <vbg>
This, of course, has only been a little technological "blogging". I know. It smells like old fashioned "bull-_hit." But believe me...
It's all very "high" technology. <Hoo><Haa><Hoo>
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