With knowledge, however, otherwise worthless matter and radiation turns into petroleum, microchips, and radio spectrum.
More and more of that technological liberation is happening, thanks to the growing power of microchips.
Dogs in England will have to be fitted with microchips by 2016, the government said.
MicroChips' first prototype used gold foil and was featured in the journal Nature in 1999.
They are to be replaced with a system of certifying pets using vaccinations and microchips.
Now betting the future on Lego robots -- new programmable bricks with built-in microchips.
The microchips are programmable, as well, so that the drug delivery can be automated.
It includes microchips for its Galaxy S4, which is due for UK consumer launch later this month.
Wolfson Microelectronics has signed a deal with Samsung to supply it with audio microchips over several years.
The machine used 18, 000 vacuum tubes to handle the calculations that are now performed by tiny microchips.
Britain has Autonomy, which makes specialised search software, and ARM, which designs the microchips for Apple's iPhones.
Even when the size limit is reached and Moore's law stops, other tricks will keep microchips improving.
The plants there that make microchips are extremely sensitive to vibration and were forced to shut down.
How can organizations empower their people at the same time they outsourcing their jobs to algorithms and microchips?
MicroChips has created an implantable device that contains arrays of tiny sensors, each sealed under the platinum foil.
Many things human beings do are like that, of course: catching fly balls, manufacturing microchips, delivering overnight packages.
It also makes camera parts for Kodak, copyright protection devices for major U.S. makers and microchips for smart-cards.
Some are simple but novel, like paying for implantable microchips that will allow owners to reclaim lost dogs.
All of these ideas are already, to a greater or lesser degree, finding their way into existing microchips.
Throw enough microchips at the problem Deep Blue contained hundreds of specialist chess-analysis chips and it does indeed become trivial.
Compulsory microchips for dogs are to be introduced in England, under plans expected to be announced on Monday.
And everything can be thought of in this way, from the production of microchips to the education of children.
This is fine for flying tiny microchips into Europe or America from Asia, but too expensive for clunkier goods.
MicroCHIPS, an American start-up, is developing smart, implantable microchips which have reservoirs to hold drugs or tiny monitoring devices.
They considered everything from computer hard drives to obsolete floppy discs, and x-ray films to microchips on credit cards.
The microchips each contain a unique number and are implanted into the loose skin between a dog's shoulder blades.
While most people carry cards with embedded microchips and magnetic stripes, most Americans carry cards with magnetic stripes only.
One investor in MicroChips is Medtronic, whose Minimed unit sells continuous glucose monitors.
Now vertical dis-integration is the order of the day in autos, handheld computers, pharmaceuticals, ink-jet printers, health foods, cameras, microchips.
Computers get faster as the transistors on microchips get smaller and closer together.
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