zin said:
I think I found the book on the internet (google lol). And through a very rapid look, its seems that the author cites other books and presents a narrative that has nothing to do with what he's citing. Maybe he got this info from the twilight zone.
It's highly probable. I found this blog stating some of the same stuff. It could be regurgitation:
http://creoharmony.blogspot.ca/2013/07/sir-john-dee-queen-elizabeth-i-and-king.html
"The entities in this 5th dimension told Dee that the only way these beings can escape into invisible chain/barrier around the Earth is through the use of pure matter. That pure matter that they were referring to has to do with nuclear energy (in a different form) and afterward the heavy use of silicon will be required, and as a last step they mentioned the use of DNA."
It'd be an interesting question for the C's.
You mentioned silicon and carbon - well, carbon takes many forms known as allotropes (configurations of carbon atoms). Graphite, diamond, graphene, carbon nanotube, buckyballs, etc are all carbon. They are looking into using carbon nanotubes or graphene as the material for future CPU's (graphene has been super hyped up in the media since it's isolation in a lab in 2004), to replace silicon because silicon cannot be shrunk much further to make smaller transistors without issues. Current switchover from silicon is expected around 2020 or not much later. There are many other considerations for future CPU materials, DNA being among them. Recently DNA has been demonstrated to be useful as a storage medium, as it can store a hell of a lot of data in a very small space.
So it may be nothing, or something, but the fact that all of the above are serious (and promising) potentials for CPU design to replace silicon in the near future, that's at least one connection.
More details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_computing
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-graphene-discoverer-speculates-on-the-future-of-computing/
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/175727-ibm-builds-graphene-chip-thats-10000-times-faster-using-standard-cmos-processes
One note though - graphene itself is a very efficient conductor, but a terrible semiconductor. It doesn't have a "band gap", which means it can't be made to conduct or resist electrical current like silicon can, so it can't function as a on-off switch, or 1 and 0, which is what all computers require to do their logic. But they're working on doping it with other materials to create a bandgap.
On the other hand, carbon nanotubes have a band gap and are also a serious candidate for CPU material. Combine this with memristors which HP is working on, integrate them into a neural network, and you have a carbon-based intelligent (AI) "life form" with a brain that mimics the design of the human brain. So maybe Artificial Intelligence is the end goal?
There is a recent book by Nick Bostrom called "Superintelligence" that is widely hyped by posthumanism crowd (like Ray Kurzweil), which discusses the dangers/benefits of an AI. Essentially, the idea is that it will become infinitely smarter/faster than a human brain once it reaches our level of intelligence - by redesigning its software and hardware into a better version, and then having that version redesign itself again, and so on. And the conclusion is either we're all gonna die very very quickly after that (think Skynet, just infinitely more efficient), or it turns into a posthumanist's wet dream and becomes a technological paradise for humans as the AI takes over and does everything for us, and solves all the world's problems overnight.
The C's once remarked the computers will destroy us one day, just as the crystal pyramids destroyed Atlantis. In one sense, they already have if you think about not just pervasive wifi, but the drooling brainless massess on their iphones all day consuming mindless content (cat pictures, etc). On the other hand, I think it would be interesting to revisit the AI question with the C's - are we really on the verge of an Artificial Intelligence that dramatically outperforms humans, and what are the true ramifications of this? According to Kurzweil, Bostrom, Elon Musk (inventor of Paypal and Tesla cars), and many other scientists/thinkers/inventors, this is the last invention that humans will ever need to make - and it is imminent (within the next decade or 2 according to projections of hardware/software progress), and the consequences will be more dramatic than anything that has ever come before - either really really bad, or really really good.
While I think that these people are obsessed with materialism and virtual immortality (uploading their minds into computers/robots and living forever this way), and so are absolutely terrified of death and deny any concept of "spiritual" or "non-material" existence (maybe the're all OPS who knows, Kurzweil takes like 200 pills a day to try to maintain his youth/health so he can make it to the techno-immortality era!), the whole AI thing does make me a bit nervous. Chances are the economy/ice age/comets will prevent us from getting there, but they're really pushing for it so who knows!
