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Nanoscale computronium is material organized at the atomic level to create a [[computing]] [[system]], or a [[computer network|network]] of computing systems. Relativly little experimental work has gone into the creation of [[nanoscale]] [[computer]]s specifically (work in [[molecular manufacturing]] has yet to get that ''specific''), so most of the thought concerning this type of "computronium" is speculative and theoretical.
Typcially when dicussing computronium, [[futurists]] and [[science fiction]] authors are refering to a type of ''nanoscale computronium'', or large collections of [[computer network|networked]] [[nanoscale]] [[computers]] (such as [[K. Eric Drexler]] did in his book ''[[Engines of Creation]]''[http://www.foresight.org/EOC/]). It is often assumed that such computronium would be produced by means of application of [[molecular nanotechnology]], probably by self-replicating assemblers which would allow for production of macroscopically large "chunks" of the material.
The precise make up of such dense computronium is still a matter of speculation, although most refernces to ''nanoscale computronium'' seem to lean toward a ''mechanical'' inplementation (see below) because nanoscale mechanical devices seem to the be the easiest to design and fabricate (we already have seen examples of atomic scale machines being contructed in labratories).
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