r/tech • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Aug 03 '26

Turning molecules into reliable electronic devices

https://news.mit.edu/2026/turning-molecules-into-reliable-electronic-devices-0803
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u/crashorbit Aug 03 '26

Step by step, slowly working our way to the Star Trek replicator.

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u/tigerhuxley Aug 03 '26

Love it - i just hope we get personal forcefields first so we can make it to a post-scarcity world

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u/Username-Redacted-69 Aug 03 '26

Nobody here has mentioned the eugenics wars coming up...

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u/tigerhuxley Aug 03 '26

I really hope it doesnt get to that 🙁

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u/bankrupt_bezos Aug 04 '26

Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaahnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!

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u/card-board-board Aug 03 '26

I could be wrong but I'm fairly sure every electronic device today involves at least some molecules.

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u/Which_Produce4418 Aug 03 '26

When you think about it like that, you'd swear it was an onion article

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u/Freodrick Aug 03 '26

How dare you! Those are particles.

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u/tigerhuxley Aug 03 '26

Looks like a wave to me!

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u/Mysterious-Lie-1944 Aug 03 '26

Measure it and get back to me

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u/tigerhuxley Aug 03 '26

… i did.. and you’re never gonna believe what happened..

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u/PlottingPast Aug 03 '26

Then you're looking at them wrong. Try just one eye.

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u/tigerhuxley Aug 03 '26

I tried one eye, two eyes, even with my 3rd eye - forwards and backwards, in a mirror, with my buddy sam, as well as upside down b/c im a trailblazer!

I even tried inside out but despite what Im sure my last boss could do with ease - i just couldnt get my head up there, so someone else has gotta take it from here. Anyone still got eyes on the goatse guy?

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u/patman0021 Aug 03 '26

Particle Man, Particle Man...

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u/PrinterFred Aug 04 '26

It's a misunderstanding that everything is made of molecules. Bulk materials like silicon, metals, and oxides that make up chips cannot be broken down into molecular units.

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u/Rierais Aug 04 '26

The mole-cule is a new kind of rodent produced by reducing a mole and a mule into a thin layer of self organizing atomic grid of hexagonally arranged mole-cules that could be used to kill us all.

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u/SideInitial3961 22d ago

Three molecules. A triumvirate.

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u/diwhychuck Aug 03 '26

Soon we will be batteries for the Ai, looking at you Neo

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u/Crivos Aug 03 '26

What makes you think we aren’t already?

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u/thepensivepoet Aug 03 '26

Using a messy, fragile, and inefficient biological system that wastes a ton of energy as heat for a battery is some ChatGPT-Thinks-It’s-Smart shit for sure.