Nanotechnology: The Revolution of Endless Possibilities What is Nanotechnology?

• Nanotechnology: The Revolution of Endless Possibilities

• What is Nanotechnology?

• Nanotechnology is molecular manufacturing or, more simply, building things one atom or molecule at a time with programmed nanoscopic robot arms
• Allow automatic construction of consumer goods without traditional labor (e.g. Xerox machine)
• The trick is to manipulate atoms individually and place them exactly where needed to produce the desired structure
• The payoff for mastering this technology will be far greater than anything we have achieved so far

• The Next Euphoria

• “Stocks with nano in the name will be all the next rage.”
• -Tom Theis, director of physical sciences at IBM Research

• VC’s looking for post Internet-meltdown opportunities
• Nanotechnology has seen exciting recent breakthroughs
• $500 M in government funding
• Possibilities are endless

• “It’s hard to think of an industry that isn’t likely to be disrupted by nanotechnolgy.”
• – David Bishop of Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs

• Consumer
• Technology
• Medical
• Ecological

• Industries Likely to be Affected

• Consumer

• Self-assembling consumer goods
• Safe and affordable space travel
• Molecular food syntheses (end starvation)
• Construction of buildings/houses

• Technology

• Computers billions of times faster
• Optical Communications

• Source: NASA

• Medical

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