Intelligent Fog

Consider all-pervasive intelligent fog, everywhere and everything. This fog will have amazing potential for transforming our environments, and our lives. Latent in every inch of space this fog will have incredible computing power. Instead of building the object you want atom by atom , the tiny robots from this fog would link their arms together to form a solid mass in the shape of the object you wanted? Then, when you got tired of driving that same car, the robots could simply shift around a little and you’d have an elegant BMW.

The Utility Fog, or UFog, invented by Dr. Hall, is like a dreamland material which consists of smart, tiny and identical nano-robots, named foglets. Each foglet is mostly made of arms and a nanocomputer and would be 6 to 10 millionths of a meter in size. The individual foglets would take up only 2 to 3% of the space in the volume they fill, leaving the rest of the space for air and light. Hence, a room filled with UFog would be transparent up close, somewhat cloudy at a distance. You could fill a house with them and they would be unobtrusive.









With all the computing power contained in these trillions of foglets they could be programmed with a wide spectrum of behaviors that mimic materials of different mass, motion, appearance, and function.

They could:

* Change a certain volume from one substance to another, for example, change running water to solid wood
* Make objects appear and disappear, hence furnish your house
* Build entire cities, whether in Bogota or on the Moon
* Monitor your bodily functions, such as heart rate, etc. and take preventative action if necessary
* Have your DNA pre-programmed, thus provide you with total immunity from all bacterial and viral agents, such as colds and AIDS
* Perform surgery on the spot
* And much more!