Industries await dawning of nanotechnology age

USTODAY ^ | 2/4/2004 | David Brinkerhoff and Dane Hamilton, Reuters

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Nanotechnology, according to its fans, will jump-start a new industrial revolution with molecular-sized structures as complex as the human cell and 100 times stronger than steel. The new technology transforms everyday products and the way they are made by manipulating atoms so that materials can be shrunk, strengthened and lightened all at once.

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http://www.nano.gov/html/res/links.html
http://www.nnin.org/
http://mems.sandia.gov/scripts/index.asp
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/nannanarchive.asp
http://www.nano.gov/

The article states that there are HURDLES AHEAD to the application of nano, but those are nothing compared to what human society can expect when applied. END THE MATRIX.

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George Stephanopoulos, professor of chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

a tragic coincidence, I'm sure.

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the hammer has built many houses. it has also been used to kill a few people.

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once upon a time, OMNI magazine had a story about a machine that kept building more of itself and smaller and smaller copies. Eventually they got so small they build nano copies out of all the metal in the world.

The weaponization of nanotech?

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Nano-scientist's dark secret

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Richard Feynman predicted this 40 years ago.