The best President for the United States

Reflections of Fidel
The best President for the
United States
(Taken from CubaDebate)

A well known European agency transmitted the news the day before yesterday from
Sydney, Australia. "A group of Australian investigators from the University of
New South Wales announced the creation of a wire 10,000 times thinner than a
human hair, with the same electrical current carrying capability of copper."

"... Bent Weber, head of the project at the Australian university, in an article
published by Science magazine, explained, "Interconnecting wiring of this scale
will be vital for the development of future atomic-scale electronic circuits."

"The wire was created by Australian and U.S. physicists by precisely placing
chains of phosphorus atoms within a silicon crystal, just four atoms wide, one
atom tall.

"This finding is essential to the international race to develop the first
quantum computer, super-fast machines capable of processing enormous quantities
of data in a few seconds, doing complex calculations which would take current
computers years or even decades.

"In a traditional copper wire, electricity flows as copper electrons move along
the conductor, but as the wire or conductor becomes smaller, resistance to the
flow of electricity is greater.

"To overcome this problem Weber and his team used a process called scanning
tunneling microscopy which allowed them to place atomically thin layers of
phosphorus in silicon crystals.


"This allowed the nanowire to function like copper, with the electrons flowing
easily, without resistance problems. Weber said that with this technique makes
possible reducing the size of components to the atomic level.

"If the semi-conductor industry continues to miniaturise devices then eventually
they will reach the atomic scale," observed Michelle Simmons, director of the
research project

These unabated technological advances which should serve humanity’s well-being
reminded me of what I had just written four days ago about global warming and
the increasing development of shale gas, in a world which in 200 years has
consumed fossil energy produced over a period of four billion years.

I imagined Obama, very articulate with words, for whom, in his desperate attempt
to be reelected, the dreams of [Martin] Luther King are more light years away
than the closest inhabitable planet.

Even worse: any one of the Republican Congress members considering the
Presidency or any man or woman leading the Tea Party are carrying more nuclear
weapons on their shoulders than ideas about peace in their heads.

Imagine, readers, for one minute, this powerful quantum computer cable of
processing an infinite number of times the data processed by modern computers.

Is it not, perhaps, obvious that worst of all is the absence in the White House
of a robot capable of governing the United States and preventing a war which
would put an end to human life?

I am sure that 90% of U.S. citizens registered, especially Latinos, Blacks and a
growing number of those in the middle class, the impoverished, would vote for
the robot.



Fidel Castro Ruz
January 8, 2012
6:18 p.m.