poll about the emerging techonology

can anyone predict whats gonna be the next generation techonology ???

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please support your choice with any interesting articles please....

excuse,what is spintronics?Can you give some application examples?

well the plan for the new generation scientist is to store a bit of data in an electron..........well lets wish this occours in ourlife time........

Here is a good quote about nanotech...

"Nanotechnology has given us the tools. . .to play with the ultimate toy box of nature - atoms and molecules. Everything is made from it. . . .The possibilities to create new things appear limitless. . ."
-- Horst Stormer, Nobel Laureate, Columbia University, Lucent Technologies

Whatever becomes the replacement for silicon, as we are reaching its limits.

nano may be a good alternative for electronics in recent future, but the developments in spintronics also cant be overlooked. Spintronics may be the next era after nano,I foresee nano to be the alternative (Substitute) for conventional electronics.

some good ones are listed in www.port-70.blogspot.com

I don't think silicon is going away anytime soon. Intel and IBM just extended the the currently used processes another couple of orders-of-magnitude with another form of silicon as an insulator.

Nano technology is just building the same stuff from the bottom up, instead of the top down.

Carbon is making great strides since "bucky balls" have been synthsized, but more in micro electro-mechanical systems(MEMS) than electronic switches and amplifiers.

I think the newest technology that we will have to deal with is photons instead of electrons. The ground work is layed with lasers and fiber optics. (It did take something like 30 years to get the first practical laser working). Now they are very close to using optical communications between chips instead of electrical connections. I expect we will be seeing the first of these within the next few years. PCBoard makers are already trying to figure out how to integrate optical pipes into their boards to facilitate this move.

I think it was IBM that just announced they can now make a laser with the same processes they make digital ICs, on the same chip. There has long been work on optical switches as an alternitive to electrical switches in ICs.

Photonic technology has been very very slow in comming up, but we are starting to see exponential growth in the technology.

I do see spintronics as an augumentation to existing technology, but I think it is really more a data storage and transfer medium than usefull for processing and control.

Well i think that both the technologies are next generation techs. But nanotechnology is in near future.

Exactly Nanothechnology is the next generation technology.