Monday, April 06, 2009
How do you communicate with a nanomachine?
How do you communicate with a nanomachine?
I like the idea that one takes RNA, as an existing brilliant nanomachine, and modifies it to ones own purposes.
Perhaps one could get one to grab a piece of DNA, and then walk along it reading out the codes to us.
How would one communicate with this. It might be difficult to use our existing communication technology.
I suggest that we go back to something like semaphore, where the nanomachine sets a reflective
physical flag of some sort, and we then observe this with a laser beam(s).
I think the issue is one of energy and speed. We really want the nanomachine to read out the human
genome pretty smartish, so it has to have an incredible bandwidth with the one nanomachine.
just speculation
cheers
martinW
