FINGERTIP WITH A NANOCHIP? GIGAFLOP: REVOLUTIONIZE CHIP

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FINGERTIP WITH A NANOCHIP? GIGAFLOP: REVOLUTIONIZE CHIP

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GIGAFLOP: REVOLUTIONIZE CHIP HARDWARE

 

This has the potential to disrupt many aspects of society and politics.

 

by Henk Ruyssenaars & ALue167442

 

FPF - 18-02-2005 - Because we're all reading this on a computer, it's good

to know what is in store for the nearby future: will we have a mini-computer

with global GPS connections in our implanted Gflop-chips?

 

By the nanosecond confirming the fact that we'll still be able to run, but

never again will be able to hide? Anywhere on earth? Because of the

Nano-eID-chip, with the last bits of privacy 'Giga-flopped'?

 

Imagine your child, grandma etc. being lost! You want security don't you?

And defend your child(ren) against pornography etc on Internet? That's why

Internet in the nearby future will only be admittible by eID: proving one

'deserves to be allowed to enter'. A scaring thought: who will decide the

criteria: you're for or against us?

 

While the two chip behemoths, Intel and AMD were busy staring each other

down, some of the world's largest and most successful electronics

conglomerates joined forces to really revolutionize chip hardware.

 

The electronics giants in question are Sony, Toshiba and IBM, and it looks

like their brainchild is one of the most impressive breakthroughs in

computing, since Bill Gates stole DOS from Xerox.

 

Last week, the three proud parents unveiled their offspring, the

CellProcessor, which they describe as a " super computer on a chip. "

 

After four years of development, the Cell is finally ready to make its way

into everything from laptops and game consoles to high-definition

televisions and cell phones.

 

One of the most impressive aspects of the Cell, is that it can run at 256

Gflops at 4 GHz. A Gflop, or gigaflop, is a measure of simultaneous floating

point calculations.

 

Each gigaflop represents one billion simultaneous calculations:

 

That's about 100,000 times faster than a Pentium I. It required four years

of work and billions of yen from three of the most technologically advanced

powerhouses to complete.

 

NANOTECHNOLOGY, THREAT OR PROMISE?

 

Combine the above potential with nanotechnology, and one sees an enormous

high-tech ''Mene Tekel'' - written by Laser rays for sure - on all possible

walls, but now inside your home, and maybe in your head.

 

Molecular nanotechnology (MNT) will be a significant

breakthrough, comparable perhaps to the Industrial

Revolution - but compressed into a few years.*

 

A giant electronic and controlling global Octopus, able and willing - and

for better or worse - to intrude in- and influence all lives on a grand and

daily scale, where only fantasy sets the limits.

 

BUT: WHO SETS THE LIMITS FOR WHOM?

 

This has the potential to disrupt many aspects of society and politics.

 

The power of the technology may cause two competing nations to enter a

disruptive and unstable arms race. Weapons and surveillance devices could be

made small, cheap, powerful, and very numerous. Cheap manufacturing and

duplication of designs could lead to economic upheaval. [enditem]

 

REFERENCES/LINKS:

 

Internet admittance via Fingerprint/biometric eID-cards?

FPF - Blog - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7yg8y

 

Center for Responsible Nanotechnology - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/58l8p

 

More Cell Processor + pictures - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/3zzy5

 

Neural Chip implant - fact or Fiction? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5ocag

 

Gates - Microsoft - Belgian eID-cards - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/4oyz6

 

 

FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION

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Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars

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The Netherlands

FPF

 

The Dutch author this far has worked abroad 4 decades for international

media as a foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War

I - in the 'Arab World' and the Middle East. At present 'Persona non Grata'

in Holland :-)

 

Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism! -

US Senator Hollings agrees: 'We have caused more terrorism than we have

gotten rid of' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2bqza

 

Colin Powell: 'It is not anti-Semitic to criticize the policies of the state

of Israel' - as 'US Secretary of State' in a speech at the 'Conference on

Anti-Semitism of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe' -

German Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Berlin - April 28th - 2004 - Url.:

http://tinyurl.com/22p6c

 

Former PM Wim Kok and other Dutch Govt's war criminals in Court: Url.:

http://tinyurl.com/662pp - It can and must be done!