from the hacking-reality dept.
brian_dunbar writes "A Question for Nanodot Users: What will happen to Design Bureaus or Who Will Design Nano-Structures?
I work for a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design bureau – we take the sometimes confusing architecture specified by the TI's and Motorola's of the world, design the circuit boards to spec, and send the output to the manufacturers. Everything I've read goes into rapturous lengths about how great it will be to enable true desktop manufacturing, but I'm curious to see if there are any thoughts for the middle of the process – the hard part about telling the machinery *where* the atoms and molecules will go."
