The Importance of Nano Technology

When most people first hear the term 'Nano-technology', they most readily think of the term 'micro technology': the technology of microelectronics that has so changed society in the past two decades. And that is really the appropriate likeness. Micro technology is the technology that allows you to make objects on the micron scale. A micron is a millionth of a meter. You take a little one thousandth of that and you can still see it …

…large comfortable cities in space, the population's impact on Earth's environment will return to levels existing a hundred or so years ago. We've got to learn how to build machines, materials, and devices with the ultimate skill that life has always used: atom by atom, on the same nanometer scale as the machinery in living cells. But now we've got to learn how to extend this now to our world. We need to develop Nano-technology.