...bers are immortal, don't have to work, or think in order to survive. Sophisticated machines take care of all their needs. No one forbids them to ma... ...s the most virulent attack on capitalism in a long time. Greedy, thoughtless money machines in the form of billionaire tycoon-producers exploit Tru... ...and horror when we are faced with "resistant stains" of bacteria or with creatures, machines, or groups able to survive and thrive in extremely host... ...phizing aside – we are nothing but recursive, self aware, introspective, conscious machines. Special machines, no doubt, but machines all the same.... ...chine. James Bond always finds himself confronted with hideous, vicious, malicious machines and automata. It was precisely to counter this wave of ... ...parrots? Yes, unless the manufacturers equip the robots with digital or optical or molecular representations of the human figure (masculine and fem...

...is brother's sweat. He could smell his body odor like any dog getting its molecular high. Jatupon thought it was very romantic. He smiled widely at... ...e sustenance), sidewalk seamstresses with their antique foot pumped sewing machines, and a man with a bicycle-pulled ice-cream cart who stood there sc...

...tions. But the hurdle was not high. Some owners were inspired to program the machines themselves, but true beginners simply could load up software wri... ...a fundamental dilemma: as long as people control the code that runs on their machines, they can make mistakes and be tricked into running dangerous co... ... it out at a rate of one thousand dollars per year for each of the first fifty machines. In exchange, he was wholly responsible for making sure the mach... ...ething went wrong. By the 1960s, the company name was International Business Machines, and IBM dominated business computing. Its leadership retained ... ...iety of makers meant that it soon outpaced the functionality of appliancized machines like dedicated word processors, which were built to function the... ...as been attrib- uted to Leonard Adleman, a professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. See Wikipedia...

...third non sequitur appears in connection with the twin paradox. Nahin, Time Machines, p.460:[2] Einstein himself, in his 1905 paper, specifically... ...ns of Physics, Vol.15, No.9, Sep. 1985, pp.977-80 [2] Paul J. Nahin, Time Machines, 2nd Ed., Springer, 1998, ISBN 0-387- 98571-9, p.408 [3] W.G.V... ...mely: 1. The nucleus 2. Atoms with high atomic numbers 3. Molecules and molecular shape. 4. Crystals, For example, as the limit of making the s... ...is the basis for a local spectral structure. This could be used to describe molecular shape. A metric space which is a flow of a greater containin...

... You can see how the dynamic of expanding 3-dimensional space works in bubble machines at amusement parks. The closer the bubbles are to the solid ... ...g stars. Atoms have the same relative proportional space between them in sub-molecular space as stars do in inter-galactic space. And they avoid e... ...rly all energy does this. Electrons have the same relative distance of inter- molecular space as light waves do in inter-galactic space. Electrons a... ...es in more and more complex, subtle, interrelations of subatomic, atomic, and molecular bonding. Examine the formation of Hydrogen and Helium. Exa... ...anic living creatures cannot be explained by 2-dimensional 0’s and 1’s. Dead machines will never become organically aware and they will never becom... ...they will never become organically intelligent. The point is: we do not need machines to understand the origins of our Universe. We owe it to ours... ...otality of 12 as its atomic weight: which is the gateway to a higher level of molecular combinations. As a result of this, the Carbon atom can stru... ...exagonal snowflakes again. They second time they froze inside a cloud: their molecular structure would be completely different. This would force we... ...s a dead thing that does a repetitive motion or function. The first tools or machines were the first limbs, the first shells that developed outer li...

...ng as publishers. The introduction of "book ATMs" - POD (Print On Demand) machines, which will print every conceivable title in minutes, on the spo... ...irement to file copyright renewals, to stifle changes brought on by Xerox machines. In 1998, the US extended the copyright term yet again, to 95 year... ...nd is that everything should cost something. In some places there are even machines that dispense a breath of fresh air. . .for a price. Do we reall... ... create a civilization in which everything has a price. . .when there are machines that could copy anything? The E-Books Evangelist Interview wit... ...levy to computer peripherals and, where not yet implemented, photocopying machines. Similar charges are applied today by many European countries to ... ...arbon nanotubes, in some ways the results of our abilities to work at the molecular level due to computing research, are far stronger than steel and... ...der silk in their milk, as is being done by Nexia Biotechnologies. - "Molecular Manufacturing." As offshoots of much of the above research, scie... ...Yes, unless the manufacturers equip the robots with digital or optical or molecular equivalent of the human image in varying positions (standing, si...

...gy. Eventually, physicists produced a perception that hu- mans are nothing but machines, as well. B E T W E E N K A B B A L A H A N D S C I E N C E 5... ...premise that their patients can choose freely. If I thought of my patients as machines, I would give up my practice as a psychologist. Nonetheless, ... ...20 th century, a premise that all sciences relied on, is that all things are machines. It is true that most people do not feel like machines in thei... ...etic engineering, T H E C R E D I B I L I T Y O F Q UA N T U M T H E O RY 81 molecular biology, and pharmacology progressed through the life- less m... ...anistic approach of reducing living bio-systems to noth- ing more than complex machines. There is a very interesting point concerning the connection ... ...ysics. The problem is that physics has already abandoned these mod- els. Even molecular biology, which studies the most minuscule objects, has yet t... ... outer layer of matter; others re- search deep into its structure, down to the molecular level and to the relationships between atoms and subatomic p...

... (copyright was now being used to regulate functional articles of commerce: “machines” made of binary code). The dif- ference between copying and read... ...orks will also carry large amounts of illicit material, just as photocopying machines (and VCRs) are widely used to violate copyright. The Grokster ca... ...ftware is copyrightable, that assessment changed. The levers and cogs of the machines of the modern economy are forged out of ones and zeros instead o... ... rules designed for original expression in novels and poems being applied to machines made of computer code, we add the DMCA and its new rights of unc... ...technology, or the difficulties posed in ap- plying copyright to software, to machines made of words. The same issues appear at the heart of a much old... ...” 12 The scientists describe their task in terms that should be familiar. “A molecular automaton is an engineered molecular system coupled to a (bio)m... ..., for example, owns patent number 6,774,222: This invention relates to novel molecular constructs that act as various logic elements, i.e., gates and ... ...protein. This basic unit can be assembled in any number of formats providing molecular constructs that act like traditional digital logic elements (fli... ...41, 46, 49, 52, 68, 168–170, 175, 177, 200, 237, 247–248, 269n31; over novel molecular constructs that act as various logic ele- ments (#6,774,222), 1...

...t. Working drones were not needed in our earthly hive. Even in the 1970's machines could do the work of many high school graduates. It struck me o... ...et sweeper did the work of thousands of little old ladies in a single day. Machines plucked and packed the fruits of our orchards eliminating the imp... ...d won it. Singaling has joined Singapore in its Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology. Researchers from around the world clamor to be... ...esh water. We clean ourselves and our homes without water. Electro-static machines replace bathroom showers, dishwashers and clothes washers and drye...

...l mantle, and not only the earth but the universe, the cosmos, is being cloaked by machines. These machines and their technology abruptly altered ... ... the "law of the laws", that is to say, the auto-propagation (and self-learning) of machines. Wiener's writings on these matters provide us with a m... ... systems (such as biological ones) and programmable computers (or universal Turing machines). The former were considered limited by the rigidity of... ...ences of technology: Asimov robots and programmable computers (universal Turing machines, to be precise). Consider Asimov's robots: Sigmund F... ...hilosophizing – we are nothing but recursive, self aware, introspective, conscious machines. Special machines, no doubt, but machines althesame. ... ...parrots? Yes, unless the manufacturers equip the robots with digital or optical or molecular equivalent of the human image in varying positions (st...

...th an inquisitive look. “ ” Johnson says that the two of you are in the same molecular biology class together. “ ” Oh, yeah, that's right, Emilie conf... ... doctor since I need to get ready for my big moment: Emilie. Rushing to my molecular biology class, I get there half an hour early and much to my s... ...nuity, and intuition, so in turn, they are easily manipulated into becoming machines to overachieve and overwork. That is why Asians want power, eve... .... It's always about — the money. Scene: Chapter 8 In Johnson and Emilie's Molecular Biology Class (first-person – reflection) Character: Johnson O...

...ted the idea of animal rights. They regarded animals as the organic equivalents of machines, driven by coarse instincts, unable to experience pain ... ...lation is by virtue of two facts: (1) Both the brain and the computer are "thinking machines" and (2) the latter is the product of the former. Thus,... ... permutations define the set of all soluble problems. It can be proven that Turing Machines are a private instance of a general, much stronger, cla... ..., disconnect, and, in general, alter itself in response to data. In most man-made machines, the data is external to the processing unit. It enters... ...and horror when we are faced with "resistant stains" of bacteria or with creatures, machines, or groups able to survive and thrive in extremely host... ...arrots? Yes, unless the manufacturers equip the robots with digital or optical or molecular representations of the human figure (masculine and fem...

...ted the idea of animal rights. They regarded animals as the organic equivalents of machines, driven by coarse instincts, unable to experience pain ... ...lation is by virtue of two facts: (1) Both the brain and the computer are "thinking machines" and (2) the latter is the product of the former. Thus,... ... permutations define the set of all soluble problems. It can be proven that Turing Machines are a private instance of a general, much stronger, cla... ..., disconnect, and, in general, alter itself in response to data. In most man-made machines, the data is external to the processing unit. It enters... ...and horror when we are faced with "resistant stains" of bacteria or with creatures, machines, or groups able to survive and thrive in extremely host... ...arrots? Yes, unless the manufacturers equip the robots with digital or optical or molecular representations of the human figure (masculine and fem...

...blew askance from the automated brushes of industrialized street cleaning machines. Such filth needed to be buffeted aside to make the city clean. Tr... ...dry day and staff members would soon be giving them tokens for the washing machines which, based on rules predicated on what was convenient to the or... ...stringent. Even she knew the absurdity of launching lust, love, from the molecular stench fuel of a phallus, that seeking to see a denuded male unc...

...igh, nor eye to see. The uni- verse at that plane to which the mind of the molecular physi- 20 First and Last Things cist descends has none of the sh... ...om- mon life whatever. This hand with which I write is, in the universe of molecular physics, a cloud of warring atoms and molecules, combining and re... ...ere of ether. You see, I hope, what I mean when I say that the universe of molecular physics is at a different level from the universe of common exper... ...f vibration of that. We have reached to a con- ception of that universe of molecular physics by a great en- terprise of organised analysis, and our un... ...de. The science of society stands at the extreme end of the scale from the molecular sciences. In these latter there is an infinitude of units; in soc... ...it to occur at the present time; and the near advent of practicable flying machines opens a whole new world of frightful possibilities. For my own par... ...ctor, the rear of the fighting line becomes insecure, assailable by flying machines and sub- ject to unprecedented and unimaginable panics. No man can...

...a modifying cause in human development.* Plato clearly had no ideas about machines at all as a force affecting social organisation. There was nothing... ...drop that and your soiled towels and so forth, which also are given you by machines, into a little box, through the bottom of which they drop at once,... ...s in the carefully levelled and irrigated meadows by means of swift, light machines that ran on things like feet and seemed to devour the herbage, and... ...ight call Welt-Apparat in the future, for national harrowing and reap- ing machines, and race-destroying fumigations. The great plain of China (“Yello... ...eigh nor eye to see. The uni- verse at that plane to which the mind of the molecular physi- cist descends has none of the shapes or forms of our com- ... ...com- mon life whatever. This hand with which I write is in the universe of molecular physics a cloud of warring atoms and molecules, combining and rec... ...re of ether. You see, I hope, what I mean, when I say that the universe of molecular physics is at a different level from the universe of common exper... ...f vibration or that. We have reached to a con- ception of that universe of molecular physics by a great en- terprise of organised analysis, and our un...

...mean.” “Rushed on me just as much. How was I to know when I set to work on molecular physics that the business would 76 The First Men in the Moon bri... ...ings, and who ever got to any sort of understanding with ants?” “But these machines and clothing! No, I don’t hold with you, Bedford. The difference i... ... And what a world it must be. The earnest we have in that shaft, and those machines” “And the goad,” I said. “Don’t forget the goad!” He walked a litt... ...ct of going ever deeper into this inhuman planet-bur- row. His mind ran on machines and invention, to the exclu- sion of a thousand dark things that b... ...verns of the Selenites, their helmet faces, their gigantic and wonder- ful machines, and the fate of Cavor, dragged helpless into that world, seemed i... ...thly method of leaving children to grow into human beings, and then making machines of them. “Quite recently , too—I think it was on the eleventh or t...

...- tion of the great turbine engines that preceded the utilisation of intra-molecular power. Nearly every human being must have seen steam, seen it inc... ...t com- ing within reach of a gun. But that night he only wanted one of the machines, and it was handy and quite prepared under a tarpaulin between two... ...sposed to fight or the commanders on both sides preferred to reserve these machines for scouting…. After a day or so of digging and scheming, Barnet f... ...- ads below. Secretly the Central European power had gathered his fly- ing machines together, and now he threw them as a giant might fling a handful o... ...; the aviators who waited now in the midday blaze with their bomb-carrying machines and their passenger bomb-throwers in the exercising grounds of the...

...er London, dropping a hundredweight or so of ex- plosive upon the printing machines of The Times, and return- ing securely to Calais for another simil... ...n. It is extremely desirable that people should realise that these foreign machines are not a tempo- rary and incidental advantage that we can make go... ...in my mind. The age of natural democracy is surely at an end through these machines. There comes a time when men will be sorted out into those who wil... ... T o the strength of horses and men and slaves has been added the power of machines and the possibility of economies that were once incredible The Nor... ...lanned cultivation might afford. A fully developed civilisation, employing machines in the hands of highly skilled men, will minimise toil to the very... ...us as with that, sociology stands at the extreme end of the scale from the molecular sciences. In these latter there is an infinitude of units; in soc...