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The Power and Promise of Nanotechnology |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--FUTURE SCIENCE |
| Author: Mike Treder |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2007 |
| Size: 2,225 Words, 15,090 Characters |
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These early years of the twenty-first century are a time of rapid advancement in science and technology. Every day brings news of startling developments in fields such as genetic engineering, neuroscience and nanotechnology.
So what will the near future actually bring us? Human beings that glow in the dark, like our bioengineered pets? Robot servants? Flying cars? Genuine artificial intelligence? Or something even more exotic?
There is good reason to believe that within the next ten to twenty years, the most significant changes to society will go far beyond glowing people or flying cars. Many of them may result from a revolution in manufacturing brought about by advanced nanotechnology.
“Imagine the possibilities,” said President Bill Clinton, in a speech in 2000. “Mater...
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...uld go a long way toward building the body of knowledge that is needed to begin making sensible policy for the future of nanotechnology.
MORE INFO
--Thirty Essential Nanotechnology Studies http://crnano.org/studies.htm
--Video animation of a desktop nanofactory http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2022170440316254003
--Richard Feynman speech http://zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html
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