UTILITY FOG

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CONTENTS
What is Utility Fog? The Stuff that DREAMS are made of ..
Modes of operation Design Foglets in Detail Communication and Control Properties and Uses Limitations Summary

What is Utility Fog?

Nanotechnology is based on the concept of tiny, selfreplicating robots. The Utility Fog is a very simple extension of the idea . Nanofog is a highly advanced nanotechnology which the Technocratic Union has developed as the ultimate multipurpose tool. It is a user-friendly, completely programmable collection of Avogadro (6 x1023) numbers of nano machines that can form a vast range of machinery, from wristwatches to spaceships.

The Stuff that DREAMS are made of..

Halls conception starts with a little robot called a Foglet, which consists of a human-cell-sized device with twelve arms pointing in all directions. At the end of the arms are grippers so that the Foglets can grasp one another to form larger structures. These nanobots are intelligent and can merge their computational capacities with each other to create a distributed intelligence. A space filled with Foglets is called Utility Fog and has some interesting properties.

The Stuff that DREAMS are made of..

Modes of Operation
The Nano-constructs operate in two modes "native", and "fog". In "native" mode, individual foglets move into different positions and perform certain mechanical operations depending on what object it is forming In "fog" mode, the foglets do not move, but act more like pixels on a television screen

Design
Most currently proposed nanotechnological designs are based on carbon. Carbon is a marvelous atom for structural purposes, forming a crystal (diamond) which is very stiff and strong The Foglet is designed so that its structural elements, forming the major component of its mass, are made of aluminum oxide, a refractory compound using common elements

A Foglet

A Grip

Foglets in Detail
Foglets run on electricity, but they store hydrogen as an energy buffer. We pick hydrogen in part because its almost certain to be a fuel of choice in the nanotech world, and thus we can be sure that the process of converting hydrogen and oxygen to water and energy, as well as the process of converting energy and water to hydrogen and oxygen

Foglets Internal Schematic

Communication and Control

They emit control signals, at most, on the order of 10 kHz (usually less), and control motions in robots that are at most 10 Hz, i.e. a complete motion taking one tenth of a second Besides the individual control of its robotic self, each Foglet will have to run a portion of time overall distributed control and communications algorithms.

Properties and Uses

The Fog can act as a generalized infrastructure for society at large. Fog City need have no permanent buildings of concrete, no roads of asphalt, no cars, trucks, or busses. It will be more efficient to build dedicated machines for long distance energy and information propagation, and physical transport

Limitations
Anything requiring both high strength and low volume Anything requiring high heat Anything requiring molecular manipulation or chemical transformation Fog cannot simulate food, or anything else that is destined to be broken down chemically. Fog can simulate air to the touch hut not to the eyes

Advantges
Fog forms a dynamic form-fitting cushion that protects better than any seatbelt of nylon fibers. An appropriately built house filled with Fog could even protect its inhabitants from the (physical) effects of a nuclear weapon within 95% or so of its lethal blast area.

Application
In the spaceships cabin, however, will be art acceleration couch. When not accelerating, which is most of the time, wed prefer something useful, like empty space, there. The Utility Fog makes a better acceleration couch, anyway.

Summary
short list of the powers you'd have or appear to have if embedded in fog Creation--causing objects to appear and disappear on command. Levitation--causing objects to hover and fly around. Manipulation--causing forces (squeezing, hitting, pulling) on objects (real ones) at a distance. Teleportation--nearly any combination of telepresence and virtual reality between fogfilled locations

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