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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>nanotechnology</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="nanofortnight.html" title="nanofortnight"/><link rel="next" href="narg.html" title="narg"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">nanotechnology</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nanofortnight.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="narg.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="nanotechnology"/><dt xmlns="" id="nanotechnology"><b>nanotechnology</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/nan'<27>oh<6F>tek<65>no`l@<40>jee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A hypothetical fabrication technology in which objects are designed
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and built with the individual specification and placement of each separate
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atom. The first unequivocal nanofabrication experiments took place in
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1990, for example with the deposition of individual xenon atoms on a nickel
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substrate to spell the logo of a certain very large computer company.
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Nanotechnology has been a hot topic in the hacker subculture ever since the
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term was coined by K. Eric Drexler in his book <i class="citetitle">Engines of
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Creation</i> (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 <a href="http://www.foresight.org/EOC/index.html" target="_top">http://www.foresight.org/EOC/index.html</a>).
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See also <a href="../B/blue-goo.html"><i class="glossterm">blue goo</i></a>, <a href="../G/gray-goo.html"><i class="glossterm">gray goo</i></a>,
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