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Step
forward in time with me to the year 2030.
Sally Smith a real estate specialist with the Real Estate and
Financial Services consortium is previewing her firm's new listings.
Hired
as a property-previewing specialist, Sally is using the latest in
technology. A tiny microscopic robot (called a nanobot) has crawled into
her cranium, latched on to her sensory nerves, and begun to record data.
As
Sally tours each new listing her brain receives about 100 megabytes of
sensory information per second, mostly from her eyes.
The microscopic robot captures this data. After her home tour, the nanorecorder uploads the data and
the home tour is ready to be transmitted to playback nanobots in a
perspective homebuyers' brain, allowing them to relive Sally's home tour
from the comfort of their living room.
Sound
farfetched? Chris Winters,
a solid state physicist, and a team of seven other scientists with
British Telecom are working on this technology today.
Virtual video home tours may be today's cutting edge…tomorrow
consumers may preview homes with a Sony nano-man.
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