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| [[File:Accela.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Accela.]] | | [[File:Accela.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Accela.]] |
| + | [[File:A photo of Accela from Layer 02.png|thumb|A graphic displayed during the first introduction of Accela, pointing out the device's Nano Mechanism A-12]] |
| A small machine that, when swallowed, causes a person's brain to operate 12 times faster. Used in [[Layer 02]] by a boy in [[Cyberia]]. Not considered a drug, but traded like one and priced rather exorbitantly; up to ten thousand yen, with the usual price around four thousand. | | A small machine that, when swallowed, causes a person's brain to operate 12 times faster. Used in [[Layer 02]] by a boy in [[Cyberia]]. Not considered a drug, but traded like one and priced rather exorbitantly; up to ten thousand yen, with the usual price around four thousand. |
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| It becomes much more difficult to obtain after the shooting in Layer 02. | | It becomes much more difficult to obtain after the shooting in Layer 02. |
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| + | == Official Description == |
| + | [[File:Accela Description.jpg|thumb|Accela descrption typographics]] |
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| + | In Layer 02, a description of Accela is spoken aloud and displayed in a documentary-like [[Typographics|typographic]] style. This appears at approximately 10 minutes and 1 second into the episode. |
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| + | Displayed Description: |
| + | <blockquote><poem> |
| + | Accela |
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| + | Anti-VEGF |
| + | Humanized Monoclonal Antibody |
| + | |
| + | The anti-VEGF antibody is an inhibitor |
| + | of angiogenesis (blood-vessel growth) |
| + | that many hinder the growth of cancer tumors |
| + | by starving their blood supply. Genentech is |
| + | investigating this antibody in Phase II |
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| + | Vascular endothelial growth factor |
| + | (VEGF) is a natural protein that promotes angiogenesis |
| + | (blood vessel growth). |
| + | VEGF couldpotentially benefit patients who have a |
| + | heart that is functioning but has a blocked blood |
| + | supply due to artherioscleroticcoronar |
| + | </poem></blockquote> |
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| + | This text was taken from a 1999 version of the Genentech website.<ref>Genentech, 1999 - https://web.archive.org/web/19990222022456/http://www.gene.com/Pipeline/pipeline.html</ref> |
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| + | In the English Dub, the spoken description of Accela is as follows: |
| + | <blockquote><poem> |
| + | A new type of smart drug on the street called ACcela uses nanomechanisms that oscillate at a specific frequency within the body. |
| + | This triggers the secretion of a synthetic hormone. |
| + | It is said that when secreted, this hormone completely alters the response time of the human brain, making it seem as if one's awareness is accelerated. |
| + | Not only its awareness, but the workings of the brain itself are altered, multiplying the speed at which the brain calculates by a factor of 12. |
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| + | This nanomechansim itself is destroyed by digestive juices within twenty four hours. |
| + | (*Fading out, becoming inaudible*) But it is unknown how long its effectiveness lives on in the brain |
| + | </poem></blockquote> |
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| + | == Additional Accela-related Text == |
| + | [[File:Accela Text Chunk.jpg|thumb|A large chunk of text discussing nanomachines that is shown during Accela's introduction in Layer 02.]] |
| + | In addition to the description of Accela, a second large chunk of english text is shown on screen during the typographic insert in Layer 02. The content is as follows: |
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| + | <blockquote><poem> |
| + | Smart materials would be made of nanomachines, |
| + | typically microscopic—with features any size, |
| + | down to atomic dimensions. Such machines would |
| + | have more or less, the same components as macro, |
| + | or familiar "normal" sized machines with |
| + | recognizable gears, |
| + | bearings, motors, levers and belts... (except for all the nanocomputers). |
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| + | This is somewhat helpful to the engineer |
| + | designing smart materials with a myriad of |
| + | functions like shape changing and distributing |
| + | fluids and gas—say for environmental control in |
| + | a paper thin space suit that |
| + | actively moves with the body or Drexler's smart paint. |
| + | Open a can and splat some on a wall. The paint |
| + | spreads itself across the surface using microscopic |
| + | machines and changes color on command or |
| + | becomes a wall sized 3-D television... Then again, |
| + | the whole wall may as well be smart material changing |
| + | texture or windows on command. |
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| + | The point here... one can visualize the machines |
| + | needed to do such a job: little tractors with sticky |
| + | wheels, connection struts and cables to other |
| + | machines. Actually, most of this can be done today, only |
| + | on a much larger scale and at great expense |
| + | (this is where the novel economics of self replicating |
| + | machines plugs in). The transition for an engineer, |
| + | is using more machines with much smaller parts and |
| + | the luxury of vast computing power. |
| + | These differences yield more great utility. |
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| + | Gears made of Buckytubes are great |
| + | nanomachine components... Buckytubes are carbon graphite |
| + | sheets rolled into a tube (looks like tubes of chicken wire), |
| + | and are "like" carbon in its diamond form, |
| + | but with ALL available bonding strength aligned on one axis. |
| + | These tubes are stronger than diamond |
| + | fiber, and the strongest fiber possible with matter, |
| + | so we're starting out with real racehorse material. |
| + | Globus and Team designs are chemically stable, |
| + | very tough and varied in geometry, including gears mad |
| + | from "nested" Buckytubes or tubs inside of |
| + | tubes. Such a gear would be stiffer and suited for a "long" |
| + | drive shaft. And talk about performance... |
| + | </poem></blockquote> |
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| + | Currently, it is believed that this text came from an article titled "Nanotechnology: Magic of Century 21st", published by Chau-Jeng (Jeremy) Chen.<ref>Chau-Jeng (Jeremy) Chen, Nanotechnology: Magic of Century 21st. https://web.archive.org/web/20010612210105/http://www.gwforecast.gwu.edu/documents/nanotech.doc</ref> |
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| + | == References == |
| + | <references> |
| + | </references> |
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| [[Category:Technology]] | | [[Category:Technology]] |