`Assemblers`

Detailed study shows that assemblers could build the equivalent of a large modern computer in about 1/1000 of the volume of a typical human cell. Moving parts on this scale can be small and fast enough to make the computer faster than today's electronic machines. A desktop machine could then have more raw computational power than any computer in the world today. In fact, it could have more raw power than all the computers in the world today combined. In these terms -- which imply nothing about intelligence -- such a machine would have the raw power of a million human brains. -quote by Eric Drexler from Nano