PowerPoint PresentationSlide 2Popular Culture:WHAT IS IT?!Three StepsHistory of NanotechnologyHistorySlide 8Other PicturesSlide 10Slide 11Current State of NanotechFearsProblemsFuturePopular Culture:BooksVideo GamesMoviesWHAT IS IT?!Technology development on the nanometer scale.0.000000001 metersMolecules & atomsThree StepsManipulate individual atomsCreate “assemblers”Create “replicators”History of Nanotechnology1959Idea came from physicist Richard Feynman.Suggested idea of machines small enough to work at atomic level.“[Imagine] all the information that man has carefully accumulated in all the books in the world … in a cube of material one two-hundredth of an inch wide-which is the barest piece of dust that can be made out by the human eye. So there is plenty of room at the bottom!"HistoryEric Drexler believed that biological “machinery” could manufacture just about anything. (1979)Published Engines of Creation. (1981)Later published Nanosystems. (1992)History1991 ~ IBM spelled its company name with only 35 Xenon atomsOther PicturesCarbon Monoxide ManZeppenfeld“Atom”LutzHistoryIn 1991, IBM developed “atomic switch”On/Off depends on position of a single atom.HistoryNational Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) - (2000).Coordinated government efforts in nanotechnology.Current State of NanotechMainstream NanotechnologyIt’s really just chemical engineeringStain-repellant clothesAnti-fogging glassesFearsEngines of Creation introduced “gray goo” notion.Belief that nanotechnology would go out of control and turn all life into “gray goo.”Potential criminal and terrorist uses of advanced nanotechnology.ProblemsQuantum physics takes overHeisenberg Uncertainty PrincipleFutureCreate fibers that can form things such as food and diamonds.Shrink size of transistors and microprocessors.Medical benefits.Military
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