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Analysing the nature of the techno-economic paradigm

A techno-economic paradigm approach to solving the current economic crisis.

Economic problems

1)Major banks going bust
-believed to be due to a feedback process between loans-assets-national income

2)
i)Banks are not lending to each other
-confidence problem or perhaps an issue of actual balance sheet insovlency
ii)Banks not lending to people
-poor outlook for economy ironically because banks are not lending

3)Derivatives
-very large positions held by all major banks

4)stock market crash

5)unemployment due to banks not lending

6)
i)asset markets particularly houses falling drastically in value

ii)repossessions and poor recovery rate

Government objectives:

1) stay afloat until after next election
2) stop banks from going bust
3) stop government from going bust

Government response is:
-fiscal stimulus
-buying up banks
-blame problems on banks
-injecting liquidity- lending to banks

Problems with government objectives:

1) no growth target rather a stop loss strategy
2) not proactive and hopeful
3)does not specify a structure to work towards in other words has no economically relevant goal
4) the fiscal stimulus is not directed at a structure which will lead to growth
In summary there is no strategy for growth to counter the recession

Thus we believe that revolutionising the techno-economic paradigm of the west will be a more likely strategy to succeed.

Given time constraints we will look at existing technologies and try to come up with something using existing component technologies with the device of the ‘black box’ for small advances that could potentially be worked out later.

Techno-economic paradigms:

Connections; railroad, roads and automobile, air travel, internet, mobile phone

Banking, Stock market, Venture capital, Financial engineering

Sailing

Education; universities and research

Healthcare- though quite a defensive play, stable but not rising star income

Computers and electronic goods

Power and energy; oil to solar panels

Social organisation: factory, mass production, cafes and entertainment culture, facebook

Key aspects of a techno-economic paradigm:
1) inspiring to masses
-gives greater freedom and unleashes a new part of the experience of being human
-looks in some way complicated
-relates to the modernist idea of progress, teleology
-brings people together with a new vision
2) provides the base for many new kinds of industries and inventions e.g. roads lead to automobile. 
3) uses a patentable technology
4) change the makeup of the economy (i.e. its structure)
5) often changes the time-geography of humans

Some general ideas for new techno-economic paradigms:

1. universal translator (encourages integration and movement of human capital)
2. robots who do all the work for you
3. replicators in star trek
4. faster than light travel
5. powerful and long lasting batteries
6. nano tech;
7. sophisticated ai and speech recognition
8. levitation (magnetic)
9. biomaterials and self-replication (needs a machine that can make the self-replicating materials).  DNA encoding machine could be used to change an object from one kind to another.  In other words we need a windows – computer , i.e. user interface.  26179672

research survey

Nature 451, 549-552 (31 January 2008) | doi:10.1038/nature06560; Received 5 July 2007; Accepted 21 December 2007

DNA-guided crystallization of colloidal nanoparticles

Dmytro Nykypanchuk1,3, Mathew M. Maye1,3, Daniel van der Lelie2 & Oleg Gang1

1. Center for Functional Nanomaterials,
2. Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
3. These authors contributed equally to this work.

Correspondence to: Oleg Gang1 Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to O.G. (Email: ogang@bnl.gov).
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Many nanometre-sized building blocks will readily assemble into macroscopic structures. If the process is accompanied by effective control over the interactions between the blocks and all entropic effects1, 2, then the resultant structures will be ordered with a precision hard to achieve with other fabrication methods. But it remains challenging to use self-assembly to design systems comprised of different types of building blocks—to realize novel magnetic, plasmonic and photonic metamaterials3, 4, 5, for example. A conceptually simple idea for overcoming this problem is the use of 'encodable' interactions between building blocks; this can in principle be straightforwardly implemented using biomolecules6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Strategies that use DNA programmability to control the placement of nanoparticles in one and two dimensions have indeed been demonstrated11, 12, 13. However, our theoretical understanding of how to extend this approach to three dimensions is limited14, 15, and most experiments have yielded amorphous aggregates16, 17, 18, 19 and only occasionally crystallites of close-packed micrometre-sized particles9, 10. Here, we report the formation of three-dimensional crystalline assemblies of gold nanoparticles mediated by interactions between complementary DNA molecules attached to the nanoparticles' surface. We find that the nanoparticle crystals form reversibly during heating and cooling cycles. Moreover, the body-centred-cubic lattice structure is temperature-tuneable and structurally open, with particles occupying only 4% of the unit cell volume. We expect that our DNA-mediated crystallization approach, and the insight into DNA design requirements it has provided, will facilitate both the creation of new classes of ordered multicomponent metamaterials and the exploration of the phase behaviour of hybrid systems with addressable interactions.

1. potentially make objects using DNA molecules attached to nanoparticles
2. new kind of factory or perhaps a universal shapeshifting object

Robots:

Critical black boxes:
Ai sophisticated enough to understand and deal with non-specialised preprogrammed tasks.
-maybe try evolving DNA type data in an algorithm on the internet
- http://www.adaptiveai.com/technology.html company called adaptive ai which uses artifical general intelligence (AGI) to make a computer that learns and researches information relating to a goal. 
-could add strategic dimension to this

Servo motors etc that are capable of delicate movement and interaction
-toyota have a asimo

Speech and voice recognition
-possibly not a problem

Batteries
-big problem

(WO/2008/089278) BIOLOGICALLY DERIVED ROBOTS AND THEIR USE

http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2008089278&IA=US2008051221&DISPLAY=DOCS

biological robots for assembly of materials that are very small

www.wipo.int (world patent archive)

(WO/2008/076414) SELF-REPLICATING MATERIALS

http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2008076414

The invention provides micron and sub-micron scale particles designed to recognize and selectively interact with each other by exploiting the recognition and specificity enabled by DNA-sequence-encoded coatings. Such materials possess sufficient information coded in their chemical and physical interactions to self assemble and self replicate. The invention further provides methods of using such materials to create self replicating and organizing materials. Replicated copies are permanently linked and then thermally detached, freeing them to act as templates for further growth. This new class of condensed matter systems, provides means to design and control the structure and function of materials and machines from the microscopic to life-size. In another aspect of the invention, depletion type forces and depletion zones can be utilized in the implementation of the self assembly and self replication of materials, including without limitation colloidal particles. The invention further provides novel means of synthesis and materials built by such synthesis, which may be used in a variety of applications, including microelectronics.

-consider biotech materials ?

-critical component is the machine that can make such DNA sequences on a mass level.

Question is : how do you make DNA sequences?  Use a vector.