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nanotechnology
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/nan'ohtekno`l@jee/ , n. A hypothetical fabrication technology in which
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objects are designed and built with the individual specification and
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placement of each separate atom. The first unequivocal nanofabrication
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experiments took place in 1990, for example with the deposition of
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individual xenon atoms on a nickel substrate to spell the logo of a certain
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very large computer company. Nanotechnology has been a hot topic in the
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hacker subculture ever since the term was coined by K. Eric Drexler in his
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book Engines of Creation (Anchor/Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-19973-2), where he
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predicted that nanotechnology could give rise to replicating assemblers,
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permitting an exponential growth of productivity and personal wealth
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(there's an authorized transcription at
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http://www.foresight.org/EOC/index.html ). See also blue goo , gray goo ,
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nanobot.
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