I saw the future and all i got was this lousy shirt made out of nanobots.

the idea has been used a lot already

where?

Ha ha, I don't think I've seen this exact idea before. Pretty funny!

i've not seen this one.... but still not a fan of the whole idea. i've never understood the attraction to these tees, sorry.

im surprised no one has said "TAKE THE TEXT OFF" because thats such a common threadless comment.

i like it, very funny!

-Lydia

i like it

TAKE THE TEXT OFF



Actually, I think it's good. Nice choice of font, but should either be all in low or high caps.

Boring! you could have at least thought about the font, and kerning

Uh, you know what dude? it's a parody of those crappy tourist shirts. to spend any time on the kerning and the leading and whatever would sort of defeat the purpose trying to convey an authentic sense of amateurism. so maybe you could think about why it might look bad before you go off.

MONKEY ISLAND!!!!!!!

Whee, Great game. Crap rip-off m8.

with a name like " []D [] []V[] []D" you should know all about looking amateur.

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what's up with this surplus of "I saw the future" tees?

There's a contest sponsored by Wired called I saw the FUTURE. does any body read the little notices threadless puts up?

gimme one. speaking of the future....clones are cool...



http://www.threadless.com/submission/39228/EVIL_EVIL_EVIL!!!_RUN!!!

i'm confused. can someone explain to me what monkey island is and why my shirt is a crap ripoff of it?

i wish there was a way to give negative ratings.

wow, i wish there were a way to block comments that were neither constructive nor helpful. if you don't like it give it a zero and move along.

I saw the future and this shirt wasn't in it

I like it, but I think that you should make the subtext smaller and all in caps. I also like the colours.

4

I WANT THIS ON MY BODY NOW!

clever. and i like just LYDIA's comment :)

zero imagination = zero points

The first mention of nanotechnology (not yet using that name) occurred in a talk given by Richard Feynman in 1959, entitled There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom. Feynman suggested a means to develop the ability to manipulate atoms and molecules "directly", by developing a set of one-tenth-scale machine tools analogous to those found in any machine shop. These small tools would then help to develop and operate a next generation of one-hundredth-scale machine tools, and so forth. As the sizes get smaller, we would have to redesign some tools because the relative strength of various forces would change. Gravity would become less important, surface tension would become more important, Van der Waals attraction would become important, etc. Feynman mentioned these scaling issues during his talk. Nobody has yet effectively refuted the feasibility of his proposal.



The term Nanotechnology was created by Tokyo Science University professor Norio Taniguchi in 1974 to describe the precision manufacture of materials with nanometre tolerances. In the 1980s the term was reinvented and its definition expanded by K Eric Drexler, particularly in his 1986 book Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology. He explored this subject in much greater technical depth in his MIT doctoral dissertation, later expanded into Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation [1] (http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/nanosystems.html). Computational methods play a key role in the field today because nanotechnologists can use them to design and simulate a wide range of molecular systems.



Early discussions of nanotechnology involved the notion of a general-purpose assembler with a broad range of capability to build different molecular structures. The possibility of self-replication, the idea that assemblers could build more assemblers, suggests that nanotechnology could reduce the price of many physical goods by several orders of magnitude. Self-replication is also the basis for the grey goo scenario. More recent thinking has focused instead on a more factory-oriented approach (http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/convergent.html) to construction. The smallest elements of a product would be built on assembly lines, then assembled into progressively larger assemblies until the final product is complete.



As science becomes more sophisticated it naturally enters the realm of what is arbitrarily labeled nanotechnology. The essence of nanotechnology is that as we scale things down they start to take on extremely novel properties. Nanoparticles (clusters at nanometre scale), for example, have very interesting properties and are proving extremely useful as catalysts and in other uses. If we ever do make nanobots, they will not be scaled down versions of contemporary robots. It is the same scaling effects that make nanodevices so special that prevent this. Nanoscaled devices will bear much stronger resemblance to nature's nanodevices: proteins, DNA, membranes etc. Supramolecular assemblies are a good example of this.



One fundamental characteristic of nanotechnology is that nanodevices self-assemble. That is, they build themselves from the bottom up. Scanning probe microscopy is an important technique both for characterization and synthesis of nanomaterials. Atomic force microscopes and scanning tunneling microscopes can be used to look at surfaces and to move atoms around. By designing different tips for these microscopes, they can be used for carving out structures on surfaces and to help guide self-assembling structures. Atoms can be moved around on a surface with scanning probe microscopy techniques, but it is cumbersome, expensive and very time-consuming, and for these reasons it is quite simply not feasible to construct nanoscaled devices atom by atom. You don't want to assemble a billion transistors into a microchip by taking an hour to place each transistor, but these techniques can be used for things like helping guide self-assembling systems.



One of the problems facing nanotechnology is how to assemble atoms and molecules into smart materials and working devices. Supramolecular chemistry is here a very important tool. Supramolecular chemistry is the chemistry beyond the molecule, and molecules are being designed to self-assemble into larger structures. In this case, biology is a place to find inspiration: cells and their pieces are made from self-assembling biopolymers such as proteins and protein complexes. One of the things being explored is synthesis of organic molecules by adding them to the ends of complementary DNA strands such as ----A and ----B, with molecules A and B attached to the end; when these are put together, the complementary DNA strands hydrogen bonds into a double helix, ====AB, and the DNA molecule can be removed to isolate the product AB.



Natural or man-made particles or artifacts often have qualities and capabilities quite different from their macroscopic counterparts. Gold, for example, which is chemically inert at normal scales, can serve as a potent chemical catalyst at nanoscales.



"Nanosize" powder particles (a few nanometres in diameter, also called nano-particles) are potentially important in ceramics, powder metallurgy, the achievement of uniform nanoporosity, and similar applications. The strong tendency of small particles to form clumps ("agglomerates") is a serious technological problem that impedes such applications. However, a few dispersants such as ammonium citrate (aqueous) and imidazoline or oleyl alcohol (nonaqueous) are promising additives for deagglomeration. (Those materials are discussed in "Organic Additives And Ceramic Processing," by D. J. Shanefield, Kluwer Academic Publ., Boston.)



In October 2004, researchers at The University Of Manchester succeeded in forming a small piece of material only 1 atom thick called graphene. [2] (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15499015) Robert Freitas has suggested that graphene might be used as a deposition surface for a diamandoid mechanosynthesis tool.[3] (http://www.molecularassembler.com/Papers/PathDiamMolMfg.htm)



Currently as of August 23rd 2004, Stanford University has been able to construct a transistor from single-walled carbon nanotubes and organic molecules. These single- walled carbon nanotubes are basically a rolled up sheet of carbon atoms. They have accomplished creating this transistor making it two nanometers wide and able to maintain current three nanometers in length. To create this resistor they cut metallic nanotubes in order to form electrodes, and afterwards placed one or two organic materials to form a semiconducting channel between the electrodes. It is projected that this new achievement will be available in different application in two to five years. (http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2005/030905/Nanotubes_boost_molecular_devices_Brief_030905.html)



Furthermore Intel is focusing on a similar topic with their chips. According to Cnet News.com on March 1st 2005 they reported that Intel is preparing to introduce processors with features measuring 65 nanometers. The company’s current engineers seem to deem that a 5 nanometer processes are actually proving themselves to be more and more feasible. The company showed pictures of these transistor prototypes measuring 65, 45, 32, and 22 nanometers. However, the company spoke about how their expectations for the future are for new processors featuring 15,10, 7, and 5 nanometers. (Pictures and more detailed information can be found at: http://mprc.pku.edu.cn/courses/architecture/spring2005/20nmpressfoils.pdf) Currently the projects use something called complimentary metal oxide semiconductors. However, once these designs become a smaller and smaller designs the company says that they will have to rely upon quantum dots, polymer layers, and nanotube technology. (http://news.com.com/Barrett+No+end+in+sight+for+Moores+Law/2100-1006_3-5594779.html) With the current advancements into using nanotechnology products will become faster and more efficient for the world to use.



Further information on current research upon using nanotechnology PhysOrg.com speaks about the use of plasmons in the world. First of all plasmons are waves of electrons traveling along the surface of metals. They have the same frequency and electromagnetic field as light, however, the sub-wavelength size allows them to use less space. These plasmons act like light waves in glass on metal, allowing engineers to use any of the same tricks such as multiplexing, or sending multiple waves. With the use of plasmons information can be transferred through chips at an incredible speed, however, these plasmons do have set backs. For instance, the distance plasmons travel before dying out depends on the metal, and even currently they can travel several millimeters, while chips are typically about a centimeter across each other. In addition, the best metal currently available for plasmons to travel farther is aluminum. However, most industries that manufacture chips use copper over aluminum since it is a better electrical conductor. Furthermore, the issue of heat will have to be looked upon. The use of plasmons will definitely generate heat but the amount is currently unknown. (http://www.physorg.com/news3415.html)



Further developments in the field of nanotechnology focuses on the oscillation of a nanomachine for telecommunication. The article speaks on 2/9/2005 that in Boston an antenna-like sliver of silicon one-tenth the width of a human hair oscillated in a lab in a Boston University basement. This team led by Professor Pritiraj Mohanty developed the sliver of silicon. Since the technology functions at the speeds of gigahertz this could help make communication devices smaller and exchange information at the speed of gigahertz. This nanomachine is comprised of 50 billion atoms and is able to oscillate at 1.49 gigahertz or 1.49 billion times a second. The antenna moves over a distance of one-tenth of a picometer.

wikipedia.

oh god. Can peapole stop spamming?



I like it, its kind of sarcasmic and i think thats great. But i dont like the color combination. 4 and would by from me :)

Um...who was spamming??



Anyways, I'm digging it.

I think the font need work but ...then agian, maybe not, with the point it gets across. I like it.

5$

double you tee eff, i bet you love napolean dynamite

i bet you i don't. but i bet you're a self-loathing hipster who doesn't bathe.

haha your awesome Roboshobo and so is your shirt. 5$ just on principle

just one word..... sucks! i think the asaw future thing is so lame

I think you at least could have designed it. This is just a font - handwrite it in flash, or whatever. Make it yours . This may be your Idea, but someone else made the font

rofl roboshobo u roasted everyone who talked shit....gj u even wrote n essay lol. n the shirts ight 4 "loves threadless" i gave u a 4.

olivertwist: where do people on this site get the idea that you have to design your own fonts? have you ever seen one of the shirts i'm parodying? they use iron on letters! cooper is the font, and it's more than sufficient, i don't need to draw it! Anyway, i really think that your use of times new roman to critique me shows laziness on your part. why didn't you design a special handwritten font just for me?

Okay, that tid-bit on nanotechnology was great. Thanks. I was actually interested in it and you resumed it very, very well. I went to a lecture on it at my local univerity not too long ago. As for the shirt, I get it, it's good. Those who will get it will be totally on the same page as you (or shirt...lol)...it's like an inside joke, it's cool and it's smart. Something we could use more of on our t-shirts! Maybe people just didn't get it...as for the font, it's fine, it's a little old school style with a new message...makes for a great contrast between an idea and a design! Good insight on things. I'd wear it!

"Anyway, i really think that your use of times new roman to critique me shows laziness on your part. why didn't you design a special handwritten font just for me? "



HAHA.

You made excellent use of the Cooper font in my opinion.

At first I thought it was just too verbose to be funny. Then I realized that that is what made it funny.



Id buy it cuz its so retardedly brilliant. (I know, I used up my bad adjectivising for the day). sue me.

it would have been funny if you had written it in leet...

I love it! Please print this...

I want it printed in flock!

Yay!