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The concept of the nanofabricator presents us a Star Trek version of the future. Need a meal? Push the button on the replicator. Need a wrench? Push the button on the replicator. There is no use for money when anything you want can be instantly manufactured on the spot.

Building wondrous new inventions atom-by-atom was first floated by Richard Feynman in his fantastic lecture, Plenty of Room at the Bottom. The idea gained traction in the 1980s and 1990s, spurred on by the popular and scientific work of K. Eric Drexler. In Drexlers imagination, a foundry for molecules would suck in feeds of raw material and build up objects (like a 3D printer) rather than starting with large masses of material and carving them down to shape. This dream excited futurists and science fiction authors. It also inspired many researchers and students (including, at one time, yours truly) to pursue research in nanotechnology.

As Feynman noted in his lecture, there is no physical law that forbids molecules and even atoms from being assembled in this way. Not only is it plausible, we are the living embodiment of nanofabrication. Cells possess the machinery necessary to use blueprints (DNA) to encode messages (RNA) that provide instructions to molecular foundries (ribosomes).And Nature is no longer the only nanofabricator.

Human ingenuity has created synthetic instruments to operate at this scale. We use microscopes with tiny scanning needle tips to view single atoms. A graduate student running such a microscope can position one atom, or a small molecule though with some difficulty. We also implement complex chemical processes to synthesize large quantities of new chemicals, such as polymer plastics.

Yet, neither of these techniques are practical for nanofabrication. Our industrial production processes are very large and very crude in atomistic terms. The casting, molding, or machining of a small part is a rough treatment of a trillion trillion atoms (in which being within 100,000 atoms of a particular design parameter is a tight requirement).

Our student with the nano-manipulating microscope could mechanically assemble atoms with high precision, but it would take a time greater than the age of the Universe to build the head of a pin. Thus, building anything out of atoms with a giant machine is just too slow and too hard. What we need are tiny machines lots (and lots) of them to assemble substantial quantities of matter from microscopic building blocks.

Drexler engaged in a famous debate with Nobel Prize-winning chemist Richard Smalley over the practical design of a nanofabricator. Smalley, himself a founder of and advocate for the field of nanotechnology, and an admirer of Drexlers ideas, took issue with the application of an industrial engineering approach to the nanofabrication problem.

We generally synthesize molecules via chemistry and not mechanical manipulation. The smaller a molecule or particle is, the more surface area it presents, relative to its volume. Tiny particles become dominated by surface-based forces that cause them to act in ways that large particles dont. Soccer balls dont leap up from the ground and attach themselves to our legs mid-kick with such strength that we cannot rip them off again. Nanoparticles can.

Smalley specifically brought this up in the debate. He called it the sticky fingers problem. When you mechanically manipulate molecules and atoms, they tend to adhere to things. They cannot easily be moved without finding something to stick to, and they cannot easily be dislodged once they do. This applies not only to the apparatus, but to unwanted atoms that happen to be nearby as well.

For example, keeping a free oxygen (O) atom from immediately sticking to another O atom and forming O2 is extremely challenging. There is a reason our atmosphere is made of O2, CO2, and H2O, and our ground is made up of quartz (SiO2), alkali feldspar (minerals with O8 groups), Al2O3, and so many other oxidized compounds that 47% of the Earths crust mass is oxygen by weight. Manipulating an isolated O atom, or trying to assemble something in which you are trying to prevent oxygen from running it, would be very hard.

Smalley raised a second practical issue. A nanofabricator presumably needs tiny mechanical arms to do its assembly work. To effectively grasp an atom, the hands on these arms must be about the size of an atom, or a few atoms at most. To bring two atoms together, fingers holding each atom would be required. Ideally, the fingers would be smaller than the atom they grasp so as to move it with high fidelity. The trouble is that a finger cannot be smaller than an atom, and thus we begin to run out of the room at the bottom. Smalley called this the fat fingers problem.

Assembling molecules with the fat fingers can get even more tricky: the molecules cannot just be smashed together. To bond in the desired way, they must be placed, in certain orientations and under certain conditions, with great care. The chemistry concept is the molecules path along a parameterized reaction coordinate. Following the proper path likely requires more flawlessly operating tiny fingers.

Smalley, an experimental research chemist, then proposed that nanofabricators might instead work via chemistry, like the processes inside cells. This too suffers from substantial flaws, revealed by a deeper investigation of potential chemical approaches. The first approach is a nanofabricator operating with organic molecules contained in an aqueous (water-based) environment. It would manipulate not individual atoms but small catalytic molecules (enzymes) to spur on chemical reactions that assemble larger molecules out of smaller component molecules.

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Even with the help of natural machinery like enzymes, selecting, arranging, and bonding molecules is still tricky work. More fundamentally, these processes are limited to certain types of molecules. Cells fabricate proteins and various forms of natural organic compounds, but they dont construct metallic objects. They dont construct semiconductors that we use for computation, nor do they construct many other high-tech materials. Perhaps the nano-future could be made of organic composites.

If we wish to use chemical methods without operating in water or building upon cellular processes, Smalley argued the effort will require development of a vast area of chemistry that has eluded us for centuries.

Drexler counters that nanofabricators will not work via chemistry but indeed will use mechanical synthesis. He repeatedly describes this effort as an engineering challenge. This reveals a philosophical distinction in the debate over nanofabricators. Drexlers mentality is that of an engineer, believing that once a problem is known to be solvable, it is simply a matter of systematically applying known models until the solution is achieved. Smalleys approach is that of a scientist, arguing that the problem cannot yet be tackled by engineering models because the underlying scientific details are not yet fully understood.

Scientific thinking coalesced around Smalleys positions. This put a damper on the research push for nanofabricators. While the wider field of nanotechnology barrels on, it focuses on smaller goals. But, this hasnt shaken the belief of some futurists in nanofabricators and the tiny nanobots (nano-sized robots) they would produce. Some predictions like scads of nanobots swarming through our bloodstream zapping pathogens or rejuvenating our bodies to help us live forever or infiltrating our brains to make us ultra-smart seem a little silly.

So far, the closest we have come to practical nanofabrication is the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), the crucial invention behind the proliferation of DNA sequencing, infectious disease testing, and criminal forensic investigation. Rather than creating synthetic machinery, we are repurposing cellular machinery to replicate DNA molecules. This molecular photocopying technique generates exponentially more DNA molecules from a few initial ones.

Hence, nanofabrication is certainly possible, though the hurdles are massive. But the revolution it would produce for human civilization means nanofabrication is far too tantalizing to give up on. The reward is worth the cost of patiently funding continued research.

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Jane McGonigal is the Director of Game Research & Development at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California. She designs games that aim to improve real lives, and solve real problems. For instance, her game SuperBetter has helped more than one million players tackle real-world health challenges, like depression and chronic pain. She has created and deployed games in over 30 countries for partners such as the American Heart Association, the International Olympics Committee, and the World Bank Institute.

Below, Jane shares 5 key insights from her new book, Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for AnythingEven Things That Seem Impossible Today. Listen to the audio versionread by Jane herselfin the Next Big Idea App.

You may be familiar with the saying The future starts now. Catchy as it may be, the future doesnt start now, or tomorrow, or next monthfor professional futurists, it starts ten years from today. Ten years because that is enough time for society, and your own life, to become dramatically different. Its enough time for new technologies to scale up and achieve global impact. Its enough time for social movements to achieve historic victories. Its enough time for big new ideas to take root, gain traction, and change the world.

Thinking on a ten-year timeline will lift the ceiling on your imagination and give you that magical feeling of time spaciousness to achieve transformative change. It will help you open your mind, take in new information, reduce your blind spots, increase your empathy, set more optimistic goals, and see a much bigger picture. Whenever your mind feels stuck or rushed, give yourself a ten-year deadline, make a ten-year resolution, create an event on your calendar for ten years from today, or talk to others about how the world might be different in ten years. It will change how you think and feel today.

At the Institute for the Future, we like to say, Any useful statement about the future should at first seem ridiculous. Its easy to prepare for futures that are similar to today, futures that make sense because they seem normal and reasonable. Its the possibilities that make us say, Thats ridiculous, that could never happen, or I cant even imagine itthose are the possibilities we have to spend time taking seriously. Those are the futures that will be most shocking, disruptive, and challenging if they come to pass.

Imagine if, in late 2019, you had been asked to consider that, in the near future, virtually all nations will shut and lock down their borders. One billion children will stop going to school and do all of their learning at home. Four hundred million jobs will be deemed nonessential and disappear virtually overnight. It will be against the law to hug your grandmother. (Where I live in California, that was true, thanks to social distancing rules for most of 2020.) In 2019, wouldnt these ideas have seemed ridiculous at first? But a few months later, they were reality.

We need to prepare our collective imagination for unimaginable possibilitiesso if they do happen, were not frozen with anxiety or stuck in old ways. Any future scenario that you instinctively dismiss reveals a potential blind spot in your imagination. If something feels unimaginable, thats the tip-off that it is an essential future to start thinking about.

A sculptor works with clay, a computer programmer with code, a chef with ingredientsevery form of creativity has its own raw material. For futurists, the raw material is clues. We collect, combine, and build future scenarios out of clues to how the future might be different. To find future clues, you need to develop a way of observing the world in which you spot weird stuff that others overlook. You must constantly home in on things you havent previously encountered, things that make you say, Huhstrange, and I wonder why thats happening.

You can see signals all around you. For example, the first time I saw a No Drone Zone sign in my local park, I knew it was a signal that drone technology was becoming widespread enough to deserve its own signage. Inspired by this signal of change, I got my own drone and learned more about how drones are being used: journalism, storytelling, activism, art, scientific data collection, urgent delivery services. Finding signals can be as simple as a quick search on news or social media. This week, I searched for future of learning, future of mental health, and future of pets. (That was a particularly fun searchI learned about dinosaur chickens, therapeutic robot cushions, and how dogs on Mars would live.) You can also throw in terms like innovation, experiment, surprising, trend, leading-edge, weird, strange, creative idea, new phenomenon, scientific study.

Make it a habit to find at least one new signal of change every week, or even every day. Let these signals spark curiosity. What would the world be like if these signals of change became more common? Follow the trail of clues wherever it takes you.

This is my favorite way to come up with ridiculous (at first) ideas for the future. If your imagination feels stuck in the present, then rewrite the facts of today. Make a list of up to a hundred things that are true today, then flip them upside-down. Rewrite every fact so that the opposite is true. For example, you could say that libraries are mostly quiet spaces. Flip that fact upside-down: ten years from today, libraries are loud, raucous, wild spaces. Envision it is a vividly as you can. Whats happening in libraries to make them feel and sound so different?

If thinking about the future of democracy, you could say that today theres a minimum voting age. Flip that upside down: ten years from now, theres no minimum voting age, babies can vote. Picture itchildren voting! What does that look like? How does it change politics?

Whatever you come up with, spend time mentally immersed in upside-down worlds. Make sense of why these changes could happen. How does this new reality work? Look for cluesin the news, on social media, and in your own lifethat make these flipped facts seem more plausible. Type your flipped facts into search engines and discover signals of change that you would otherwise have missed. This is a fun, mind-stretching game, but its also profound. Turning the world upside-down can help clarify what changes you want in society and your own life.

Urgent optimism is a highly motivating, resilient mindset made up of three key psychological strengths: mental flexibility, realistic hope, and future power.

Mental flexibility is the ability to recognize that anything can become different in the future, even things that seem impossible to change today.

Realistic hope is a balance of positive and shadow imagination. Its knowing which threats it makes sense to worry about and which new solutions, technologies, and ideas it makes sense to be excited about.

Future power is a feeling of control and agency to directly impact the future, by taking intentional action today.

The good news is that urgent optimism is not a fixed personality trait. It changes throughout our lives and, crucially, its changeablewe can purposefully build more of it through future imagination training.

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Art plays myriad roles in our lives. While for some art is a mode to express themselves openly, for others it may be a medium to extend commentary upon what is happening around us. To be called an artist, one does not need to pursue art professionally, harbouring a sense of devotion towards the medium is often enough. Taking their passion for art forward, a few enthusiasts from Delhi-NCR exhibited their artworks at a show titled Art of Story Telling. Presented by Studio avantZgarde, this two-day exhibition comprising works of six artists was inaugurated at the Indian Council of Cultural Relations, Azad Bhawan, IP Estate on Saturday. Curated by mother-daughter duo Sareena Kochar and Avantika Kochar, this exhibition looked at the role art can play in the life of an ordinary individual in responding to various external impulses Some of them [the artists] are not professional artists and are doing this primarily for their passion. This exhibition is all about their depiction of what comes to the mind of the artist and looking at things from different perspectives and showcasing these concepts, shared Avantika Kochar.

A passion for art

A common thread that connects all these six artists is their dedication towards art. Avantika (30), a dancer and a Yogini, exhibited a few charcoal paintings along with others made through acrylic paints. A common thread in her work is the exploration of movement. There is always discovery where there is collaboration. My collaboration is with the moving body and you will see in my work. It is not always nature or its elements but it is the form that really intrigues me, she shared. Sareena, a hospitality professional from Gurugram, on the other hand, exhibited a series of architectural photographs clicked in various cities during her travel pursuits.

Siddhant Bhatia (32), a self-taught designer from Gurugramhe works in the corporate space exhibited four digital illustrations. Exploration of futurism, especially through colours, was central to Bhatias works. I really like pop art, colours that bring out the retro and futuristic element. The fascination has always been about mixing two-three styles together, he explained. Of the five, Yaman Navlakha is the only one who belongs to the creative fieldhe is a professional photographer and a documentary filmmaker. Navlakhas work on display comprised a series of black-and-white portraits. When we talk about character portraits, we only speak of famous people or those who are public figures. My intention was to capture either people I know or the everyday person and sort of bring out their essence through the portrait, he shared. Usha Dyes (79) from Noida uses acrylic on canvas to create artworks that explore nature in all its dimensions. Similar in essence were Saroj Mishras works that explore mythological figures through the same medium as Usha. In its entirety, this exhibition was a novel attempt at letting these aesthetes take forward their work to an audience whod appreciate their attempt and devotion.

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Augmenting NEXAs value statement of CREATE.INSPIRE.,Maruti Suzuki today launched the All-New XL6. The most premium offering from NEXA, the All-New XL6 with a bolder design, enhanced comfort features, in-built connected technology and Next-Gen Powertrain offers an immersive and indulgent drivingexperience.

Inspiring the future of Indulgence, the All-New XL6 empowers expression of individual identities who aspire for the finer things in life and take out the time to indulge.The All-New XL6 enables the NEXA customer to revel in utmost comfort while maintaining discernible tastes.

Speaking at the launch of All-New XL6, Mr. Hisashi Takeuchi, Managing Director and CEO, Maruti Suzuki IndiaLimited said, The XL6 has been a very successful model for us at NEXA. It has managed to carve a space for itself as the premium MPV in a short period.The evolving customersaspirations for a bolder, feature-packed,premium utility vehicle have led us to introduce the All-New XL6. This premium MPVhas enhanced comfort and convenience features, which are bound to delight the todays modern buyer. Based on NEXAs new design languageCRAFTED FUTURISM, the All-New XL6 has a refreshed design, advanced features and is powered by Next-Generation powertrain withan all-new 6-speed automatic transmission. I am confident that our NEXA customers will appreciate the All-New XL6.

All-New XL6 based on NEXAs Crafted Futurism Design Language

The All-New XL6 is the second model to feature NEXAs Crafted Futurism design language. A work of art inspired by the future, the design language is exclusively crafted to match the refined tastes of NEXA customers. The design philosophy manifests itself upon three major pillars:

Machine-finished two-tone R16 Alloy wheels

3D LED Tail Lamps with light guide & Smoke Grey Lens

New Bold Front Grille with sweeping X-bar element

All-New XL6 |Bold Design

The All-New XL6 embodies the aspirations ofurban buyers looking for a vehicle that matches theirstyle and complements their aspirations. It stands out with its imposing stance, bold front fascia and all-around body cladding with front & rear skid plates along with a host of key design updates, which enhance the bold appeal of the vehicle:

All-New XL6| Indulgent Interiors

The powerful exterior design of All-New XL6 is complimented by its plush interiors, which engulf you in utmost comfort.It builds upon NEXAs key pillars of Global, Innovative & Pampering by offering the perfect blend of style, technology and comfort.

The All-New XL6 is equipped with advanced comfort and convenience features:

Ventilated Seats

Ventilated Seats in the front row,designed to keep you cool and comfortable no matter what the temperature is outside

Enveloped in plush leatherette perforatedseat upholstery, the All-New XL6 features captain seats in the 2ndrow and the reclining 3rdrow seatsto ensure every passenger is left feeling pampered.The roof-mounted AC for rear passengers with multiple adjustable air vents and three-stage speed control ensures that all passengers are comfortable.

Keeping the customers comfort in mind, thoughtfully planned utility spaces such as air-cooled can holders, front row armrest with utility box, smart phone storage, bottle holders in each row and an option of a power socket in each row have been built-in.

All-New XL6 | Enhanced Safety

The All-New XL6 is secured with the NEXA Safety Shield, a host of active and passive safety features for your ultimate peace of mind.

All-New XL6 | Next-Generation Powertrain | Advanced Transmission

With the Next-Gen K-series 1.5L Dual Jet, Dual VVT Gasoline Engine with Progressive Smart Hybrid Technology, the All-New XL6 offers a peak power of [emailprotected] and max. torque of [emailprotected]

Advanced 6-speed Automatic

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The All-New XL6 is available with the choice of a 5-speed manualand an all-new advanced 6-speed Automatic Transmission with steering mounted Paddle Shifters and offers an incredible fuel-efficiency** of 20.97km/l(MT) and 20.27 km/l (AT)in line with our vision for reduced emissions.

The All-new XL6 is offered in six monotone color options and three Dual-tone Color Options to make a bold statement:NEXA customers with a one-click online convenience, can also personalize their All-New XL6 with dynamic range ofGenuine NEXA accessories

All-New XL6 Prices: (Ex Showroom in INR)

The All-New XL6 can also be owned through Maruti Suzuki Subscribe at an all-inclusive monthly subscription fee starting from INR 25 499/-.

Maruti Suzuki Subscribe is a convenient way to bring home a new car. It allows a customer to use a new car without actually owning it and by paying an all-inclusive monthly subscription fee that comprehensively covers cost of complete registration, service & maintenance, insurance and roadside assistance.

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While vague plans were announced a few years ago, it looks like the team behind Six Senses Svart in Norway is ready to detail exactly what the incredibly unique property has in store when it opens in 2024. Positioned at the foot of the gigantic Svartisen glacier, this eco-conscious 94-room hotel sets futurism and sustainability against its immense natural setting, looking like a true gift to mother nature and a luxurious way for guests to enjoy a carbon-neutral stay without compromising on comfort.

Through various inventive technology and specific architecture, Six Senses Svart has achieved what very few modern resorts have managed. Its the first net energy-positive destination in the world, making the property a groundbreaking example of contemporary luxury and a blueprint for sustainable development, timed perfectly as the demand for such properties continues to climb and the hotel industry scrambles to make the progressive pivot.

Suspended on wooden poles submerged into the glassy, unforgiving waters of the Holandsfjorden fjord without disturbing the seabed Six Senses Svart looks like a UFO thats just gently landed a stones throw from Norways second-largest glacier. Off-grid doesnt quite cut it; this compelling snapshot of pure, progressive luxury is completely separated from any trace of society, cradled by nature and mirroring that with earthy, organic materials that use the least embedded energy possible.

Svart means black and blue in Old Norse, which is a reference to the natural heritage of the Svartisen glacier that falls within the famed Arctic Circle. Hence, visiting in winter would be the most ideal given the night sky will be lit by the Northern Lights, and the guest rooms look comforting enough to atone for the harsh conditions.

Six Senses Svart will be the first Scandinavian property for the renowned luxury brand, which owns and operates high-end hotels in Maldives, Australia and South Africa. And while Six Senses has always been highly regarded for balancing uncompromised luxury accommodation with the environment, its no stretch to say this ambitious project marks one of the biggest steps the company has taken thus far.

Norwegian firm Snhetta has been tapped to shape the hotels spaceship-esque facade, which has been inspired by Norways deep and complex fishing heritage. The concept is furthered by elements inspired by traditional fishermans cabins (known as rorbu) with features worked specifically to mirror the A-shaped structures (known as fiskehjell) used historically for drying fish.

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Award-winning Danish design studio, Space Copenhagen, has come on board to curate the hotels interiors to align with a distinctively Scandinavian aesthetic. This translates to a lot of clean, minimal design complemented by long art-filled corridors and numerous references to the wild landscape of the Arctic Circle.

Six Senses has formed a Svart Touch wellness concept to act as guiding principles for the design, hinged on the ideas of nature, sustainability, non-invasive touchless technology, wellness and mindfulness. Given the project has been a long time in the making, steps have been taken to ensure that none of the design pillars are bolted on as an afterthought.

Solar energy will play a central part in the accommodation, harvesting enough to power the entire system including the auxiliary features like a boat shuttle and various other adjacent operations. The goal is for Six Senses Svart to be the northernmost implementation of the Paris Agreement and a glaring example of carbon neutrality being both feasible in such a sophisticated luxury development, as well as profitable.

Sustainable properties call for extraordinary creativity, and Six Senses Svart takes us to a whole new level in terms of pushing boundaries, said CEO of Six Senses Neil Jacobs.

The concept has become bigger than the project itself, as it will provide a futuristic showcase for what can be achieved in terms of sustainability and energy solutions, and therefore a blueprint within our hospitality industry and the development sector in general.

Current plans indicate that such an energy-positive building could deliver 89% percent of the 45% decrease in emissions required to reach the scenario where global warming is limited to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. As such, a lot of eyes appear to be on Six Senses Svart, banking on how it can be deeply satisfying to luxury travellers yet still satisfy the need to protect the environment.

Restorative works both ways here. Six Senses has always been built on the idea of wellness and rejuvenation for guests, but it seems nature will be getting a much-needed massage as well. While at the hotel, travellers will be encouraged to untether themselves from the stresses of everyday life and make use of Six Senses curated sleep and wellness programs to make as much of energising stay as anything else.

Its certainly a compelling, and arguably more adventurous alternative to your typical Bali wellness retreat, and if all the promises are realised it could very well be that Six Senses Svart puts any similar property to shame. Of course, a zero-waste dining venue dubbed The Marketplace and various educational areas which showcase lifecycle living initiatives have been included in the plans. This is in addition to The Alchemy Bar, which will create an environment using regionally-inspired scents and produce.

A property like this is obviously going to have a superlative spa and fitness experience, but a press release sent out to media this week also promises that the idea of wellness wont be confined to these spaces. Guests will be able to go as deep into integrated wellness as much as they want, without the whole didacticism that typically comes with such an approach.

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In other words, guests wont be bombarded with anything that they dont already choose to engage with. Yes, theres everything from compression boots and vitamin IVs to a dedicated biohacking lounge and sensory treatment suites, but anyone who wants to just lounge in the lap of Arctic Circle luxury can do so without the wellness initiatives, which will go as far as integrating wearable technology that has been specially developed for the property.

Off-grid and carbon natural are much more than just sexy buzzwords now, and by the time Six Senses Svart opens, these descriptors will be central when we start to realise a new gold standard of hospitality. These are obviously a big part of the messaging, as they should be, but we expect more details on the interiors to emerge as the hotel rushes towards its 2024 opening. Well be updating this article as those details are released, including the all-important hotel rates.

Six Senses Svart is set to open in 2024.

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Apples CEO has taken out a restraining order against a stalker who he says keeps emailing him photos of loaded guns and creeping around outsidehis house.

AsThe Mercury News reports, a Virginia woman has spent the past year menacing Apple CEO Tim Cook, escalating from sending him photos of a loaded gun and bizarre roommate applications to driving cross-country in a Porsche to stalk his Palo Alto home all of which led a judge to grant him a wide-ranging restraining order against the woman, which bars her from owning firearms, entering Apple premises, speaking to Apple employees, or going to Cooks house.

It gets weirder: according to the report, the woman believes she is the CEOs wife and mother to his children, and uses the last name Cook on Twitter. Cook, it bears mentioning, is gay and has been out about that since 2014.

The womans obsessive behavior towards the Apple CEO appears to have begun in the fall of 2020, the report noted, when Cook noticed her tagging him on Twitter. On Halloween of that year, she tweeted continuously about the relationships she claims they had, and thereafter began escalating and becoming threatening and highly disturbing, Cooks application for a restraining orderreads.

In one of her more than 200 emails, the woman reportedly said that she was almost done waiting to have a sexual relationship with Cook, Mercury News added.

Alongside Cook, the 45-year-old womans Twitter which Futurism has reviewed but will not link to protect the woman, who may well be struggling with mental health issues also mentions Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in a threatening manner.

In her applications to be Cooks roommate, according to Mercury News report, the woman listed corporations shes registered in Virginia, California, and New York that all have highly offensive names and boast Cook as an executive. After sending the roommate applications, she then reportedly drove cross-country in a Porsche Macan SUV in October 2021 and tried to enter his building, only to wait around for him outside after being rebuffed by security. Thereafter, she fled but was found by police and arrested, and allegedly told officers that she could get violent when she was in custody.

After her Palo Alto arrest, the woman continued to escalate further, the report noted, demanding hundreds of millions of dollars from Cook, tweeting violent things about him, and demanding him to move. According to the CEOs since-granted restraining order application, the womans continued presence in the South Bay makes her more dangerous.

Though this isnt Cooks first stalker or even the first to show up at his house, this series of behavior is uniquely bizarre and freaky, even by the standards of Apple obsessives.

When tech CEOs become celebrities, they seem to get all the same treatment granted to movie stars right down to the stalkers.

READ MORE:Apple CEO Tim Cook targeted by possibly armed stalker who came to his home and is still in the area, company alleges [The Mercury News]

More on stalkers:Elon Musk Says People Stalking His Location Has Become a Security Issue

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