Singularity is Near -SIN Graph - Decrease in Size of Mechanical Devices

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In order of appearence:

17	Countdown to SIN -logarithmic
18	Countdown to SIN - linear
19	Paradigm Shifts for 15 Lists of Key Events
20	Canonical Milestones
48	Growth of U.S. Phone Industry
49	Estimated U.S. Cell Phone Subscribers
50	Mass Use of Inventions
57	Dynamic RAM Smallest Feature Size
58	Dynamic RAM Price
59	Average Transistor Price
60	Transistor Manufacturing Costs Falling
61	Micro Processor Clock Speed
62	Micro Processor Cost per Transistor Cycle
63	Transistor per Microprocessor
64	Processor Performance (MIPS)
65	Total Bits Shipped
67	Moore's Law - The Fifth Paradigm
70	Exponential Growth of Computing
71	Growth in Supercomputer Power
73	DNA Sequencing Cost
74	Growth in Genbank
75	Random Access Memory
76	Magnetic Data Storage
77	Price Performance (Wireless Data Devices)
78	Internet Hosts - Logarithmic
79	Internet Hosts - Linear
80	Internet Data Traffic
81	Internet Backbone Bandwidth
82	Decrease in Size of Mechanical Devices
83	Nanotech Science Citations
84	U.S. Nanorelated Patents
98	Real Gross Domestic Product
99	Per-Capita GDP
101	Private Manufacturing
104	E-Commerce Revenues in the United States
106	U.S. Patents Granted
107	IT's Share of the Economy
108	U.S. Education Expenditure
129	Reduction in Watts per MIPS
159	Resolution of Noninvasive Brain Scanning
160	Brain Scanning Image Reconstruction Time
331	U.S. War Death

Year	Diameter (mm)	Device
1967	0.4318	Resonant Gate Transistor
1983	0.128	Deformable Mirror Device
1988	0.06	UCBerkeley Electric Motor's Rotor
1994	0.0005	VLSI Fabricated Feature
1999	0.000012	NEMS Biomolecular motor
2004	0.0000043	Nanoelevator
Decrease in Size of Mechanical Devices, diameter in mm, Logarithmic Plot, pg 82 Source: H. C. Nathanson et al., “The Resonant Gate Transistor,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 14.3 (March 1967): 117–33; Larry J. Hornbeck, “128 x 128 Deformable Mirror Device,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 30.5 (April 1983): 539–43; J. Storrs Hall, “Nanocomputers and Reversible Logic,” Nanotechnology 5 (July 1994): 157–67; V. V. Aristov et al., “A New Approach to Fabrication of Nanostructures,” Nanotechnology 6 (April 1995): 35–39; C. Montemagno et al., “Constructing Biological Motor Powered Nanomechanical Devices,” Nanotechnology 10 (1999): 225–31, http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT6/Papers/Montemagno/; Celeste Biever, “Tiny ‘Elevator’Most Complex Nanomachine Yet,” NewScientist.com News Service, March 18, 2004, http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4794.