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	Nanotech Northern Europe - Making Nanotechnology Happen
		Nanotech Northern Europe 2008 combines an international nanotechnology conference, exhibition and tech transfer event in an exciting new setting in Copenhagen, Denmark.
		Nanotech Northern Europe brings together the field’s top scientists and leading international companies in order to advance the beneficial use of nanotechnology.
		The lead organizer of Nanotech Northern Europe is Spinverse, a consulting and seed capital company focusing on the commercialisation of emerging technologies.
	www.nanotech.net (291 words)

	Small Times: News about MEMS, Nanotechnology and Microsystems
		Nanotech experts could create a new bioterror threat that was "potentially tougher and smarter" than the durable anthrax spores causing so much concern today, says Christine Peterson, president of the Foresight Institute, a nonprofit organization that focuses on nanotechnology.
		But every new step toward commercialization, as nanotech makes the transition from the drawing board to reality, brings the fledgling industry closer to the day when many believe an inevitable round of government regulations will be needed to prevent abuses.
		The roots of their discussion go back to the 1980s, when nanotech pioneer and Foresight Chairman Eric Drexler considered keeping his thoughts quiet, rather than risk opening a Pandora’s box of new technology with threats that could include a range of microscopic terrors.
	www.smalltimes.com /document_display.cfm?document_id=2485 (1179 words)

	USATODAY.com - Nanotech could put a new spin on sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wilson uses nanotech to make tennis balls that deflate less quickly, and several companies are working on nanotech golf clubs.
		Nanotech is being used to make tiny lenses in optical switches to redirect light from one fiber-optic cable into another.
		In fact, nanotech will probably be used to solve one of the oldest problems in sports: smelly equipment and clothing.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/nano/2004-11-17-nanotechnology-sports_x.htm (1643 words)

	UCSB Nanofabrication Facility Home
		Nanotech is part of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network
		Nanotech is located in the new Engineering Sciences building at the University of California, Santa Barbara—a world leader in materials science, optoelectronic and electronic device research, and nanofabrication.
		Class 100 and 1000 Clean Rooms Benefiting from strong internal programs in optoelectronics, high-speed electronic devices, and nanostructures, Nanotech builds upon that infrastructure and expertise to provide researchers with state-of-the-art processes and fabrication techniques in these areas as well as the full spectrum of techniques required for semiconductor device fabrication.
	www.nanotech.ucsb.edu (637 words)

	United Press International - Science & Technology (no pub) - Nanotech's development called inevitable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nanotech's potential for further miniaturization of computer chips, displays, wireless communications devices and other personal computer parts will embed massive amounts of processing power into building materials and even clothing, blending computers into everyday environments, he said.
		Such advances are not complete science fiction, he said; medical researchers have encapsulated insulin-producing cells in nanostructures that allow the insulin to escape but protect the cells from type I diabetes, where the body's immune system destroys the cells.
		Nanotech is at the same point in its development as computing was in the early 1950s, Gingrich said, with one important difference -- venture capital did not exist at the dawn of computing.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20052002-124702-9768r (962 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Higher \| Comment: We must not be blinded by science
		Now nanotech products are already appearing on supermarket shelves and, unless we act very quickly, any negative social or environmental consequences will have become reality before the legislation catches up.
		Current global spending on nanotech is in excess of £2.42bn, and by 2015 is predicted to exceed £600bn every year.
		Policymakers must not fall for this doublespeak, and must ask the right questions about nanotech's social and environmental impacts: its effects on employment (if we can replace copper with carbon nanotubes, for example, what will be the future of those in Zambia who depend on the copper industry?), on human health and on biodiversity.
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/sciences/story/0,12243,975527,00.html (793 words)

	Responsible Nanotechnology: Nanotech Weaponry
		Also, unless nanotech is tightly controlled, the number of nanotech nations in the world could be much higher than the number of nuclear nations, increasing the chance of a regional conflict blowing up.
		It's true that nanotech should reduce interdependence, but isn't that something of a wash? Dependence on foreign resources is as much a motive for agression, as it is a limit on military power.
		By the time people are willing to use high bandwidth direct brain to brain communication, their nanotech enhanced brains will be running so fast that that brain to brain communication will be no more significant than regular telephones,in terms of relative bandwidth.
	crnano.typepad.com /crnblog/2004/02/nanotech_weapon.html (4069 words)

	Nanotech
		Nanotech may be biologically or mechanically based, although in practice these two tend to blur.
		What all nanotech has in common is the ability to manipulate matter on the scale of individual atoms, and thus to construct almost anything it is able to, provided it has the correct template or instructions and building material or feedlot.
		Even so nanotech was an evolution, not a revolution, and emerged from the pre-existing meso- and microtech.
	www.orionsarm.com /tech/nanotech.html (753 words)

	WFU \| The Wake Forest Nanotechnology Center
		Nanotech researchers are granted two U.S. patents, two new disclosures are made.
		NANOTECH to sponsor the The Santa Fe Workshop on Nanoengineered Materials and Macro-Molecular Technologies held at: The Inn and Spa at Loretto, Santa Fe NM USA, Oct, 2 - 7 2005
		NANOTECH was established in 1999 by grant # F49620-99-1-0173 from the AFOSR.
	www.wfu.edu /academics/nanotech (179 words)

	Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ask some folks about nanotech's environmental impact and you'll get a cheery story of ending pollution and mopping up the planet's waste.
		Nanotech is white hot in Asia, and the Pacific Rim power players have in their crosshairs the epicenter of nanotech development: American startups and research labs.
		My team at Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report surveyed leading investors, scientists, corporate execs and high-ranking government officials to give our subscribers a jump on who the top movers and shakers are in nanotech.
	www.forbesinc.com /newsletters/nanotech (574 words)

	The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The idea for nanotech can be traced back to a lecture delivered, in 1959, by the future Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, who argued that there was no reason, theoretically, that humans couldn’t move and control atoms.
		Even if nanotech does live up to its promise, though, almost all the nanotech companies that are now so hot on Wall Street, not to mention those still dreaming of blockbuster I.P.O.s, will be gone in a decade.
		Thanks to investors’ willingness to take a flyer on things like nanotech, companies are able to do more research and development than is economically rational; they experiment with ideas and approaches that, under leaner conditions, would never be tried.
	www.newyorker.com /talk/content?040315ta_talk_surowiecki (961 words)

	Nanotechnology: Dangers of Molecular Manufacturing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, some lifestyle possibilities (particularly in the areas of sex, drugs, entertainment, and body or genetic modification) are likely to be sufficiently disturbing to onlookers that their very existence would cause disruption.
		Nanotech weapons would be extremely powerful and could lead to a dangerously unstable arms race.
		All-out nanotech war is probably equivalent in the short term, but nuclear weapons also have a high long-term cost of use (fallout, contamination) that would be much lower with nanotech weapons.
	www.crnano.org /dangers.htm (3935 words)

	The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nanotech involves designing, manipulating, and building things at atomic and molecular levels—tinkering with the building blocks of matter.
		Nanotech is what economists call a “general-purpose technology,” along with rail travel, electricity, and the Internet; it may end up revolutionizing a wide range of industries, instead of just one or two.
		With a general-purpose technology like nanotech or the Internet, the process is even bloodier; because you can do so many things with the technology, you pursue a lot more fruitless notions and reckless schemes before you figure out what really works.
	www.newyorker.com /talk/content/?040315ta_talk_surowiecki (961 words)

	C&EN: COVER STORY - NANOTECH INVESTING
		Momentum investors, who bought in a few years ago when nanotech hype was rising, have been somewhat disappointed, expecting big near-term returns only to find that nanotech-related applications would take longer to develop and the companies longer to mature.
		First, he says, it is an attempt to provide a balanced view of nanotech innovations across a value-chain ranging from nanomaterial producers to manufacturers of intermediate products that incorporate nanomaterials or have nanostructured features to those producing the final goods.
		While the arguments around what is and isn't nanotech continue, the investment firms have chosen from 40 very diverse companies to make up their indexes.
	pubs.acs.org /cen/coverstory/83/8318nanotech.html (4100 words)

	Nanotech
		A separate path to nanotech is the gradual shrinking of semiconductor manufacturing technology from the micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) of today into the nanometer domain of NEMS.
		On one hand, the non-biological MEMS developers are addressing current markets in the micro-world while pursuing an ever-shrinking spiral of miniaturization that builds the relevant infrastructure tiers as it goes.
		Lab science, from biotech to nanotech, is becoming information science--designed on a computer, not at a lab bench.
	www.dfj.com /cgi-bin/artman/publish/steve_jun01.shtml (1229 words)

	Reason: Nanotechnology: Hell or Heaven? Perhaps a little bit of both
		According to Robert Freitas, the medical nanotech guru at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, not only will nanotechnology provide us with a lot of cool stuff and eliminate global poverty, it will also help us live a really long time.
		The dystopic nanotech vision was summed up by the problem of "gray goo," in which nanotech self-replicators either escape or are deliberately released and convert the entire biosphere into copies of themselves in a matter of days.
		Chris Phoenix worried about tensions between consumers and corporations since "the value of nanotech products is 1000 times greater than their manufacturing costs." Evidently, he believes that corporations will try to push the prices of their products up to obtain super high profits.
	www.reason.com /rb/rb102704.shtml (1924 words)

	Michael Anissimov - More Dangers from Molecular Nanotechnology
		This list of nanotechnology dangers was written as an add-on to the list of nanotech dangers at the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology's page on the topic.
		Interestingly, the paper says "nanotech development will certainly be an enabling technology for powerful AI, though we may face this problem even before nanotech is developed", acknowledging the non-trivial possibility that self-improving superintelligence might arrive in the relatively near future.
		Here is a a graph that lots a possible risk function of AI creation with respect to available computing power and the average IQs of the programming team: http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/works/AIdifficulty.htm.
	www.acceleratingfuture.com /michael/works/nanotechdangers.htm (1958 words)

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		In a recent March 2004 issue, Crain's New York quoted several venture capitalists as saying that they are starting to see a lot of investing opportunities in nanotechnology.
		Nanotechnology is poised to be a classic disruptive technology because at the level of the nanometer, we can manipulate specific atoms and molecules.
		Nanotech self-assemblers could produce new human organs, eliminating wait lists for liver transplants, etc. Self-assembly systems could make the world free from material want, solving world problems of hunger, water shortages, energy and heath care.
	www.dailystocks.com /nanotech.htm (635 words)

	SPECIAL REPORT: NANOTECH / Big bets on a small scale / Nanotech firms in Bay Area gear up for emerging industry
		Although the nanotech business is still in its infancy, that hasn't stopped several Bay Area firms from placing their bets now on the technology of making things small.
		Although hundreds of U.S. firms are involved in nanotech, including such tech giants as Intel, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, only a fraction are actually devoted to it.
		That number, however, is expected to grow, fueled in part by the recent signing of a bill to invest $3.7 billion over the next four years for research in nanotech.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/02/BUG274M8AO1.DTL (1410 words)

	Technorati Tag: nanotech
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		A few months ago, the Foresight Nanotech Institute and the Battelle research organization announced that they would work together to produce a...
		Nanotech Pioneer Richard Smalley Dies [IMG Richard Smalley]Nobel prize winner Richard Smalley, co-discoverer of fullerene and one of the most...
	technorati.com /tag/nanotech (599 words)

	Fool.com: Nanotech: The Small Revolution [Rule Breaker] March 26, 2002
		Much nanotech research concerns carbon nanotubes, "fibers 100 times stronger than steel at only one-sixth the weight," according to Nobelist Richard Smalley, former director of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Rice University.
		Ralph Merkle, another nanotech pioneer formerly at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Laboratories, signed up as a Principal Fellow in 1999.
		If Zyvex could be the Applied Materials of nanotech, that holds enormous potential, but I imagine that as Rule Breaker investors we would be looking for at least the potential for consumer products.
	www.fool.com /portfolios/RuleBreaker/2002/rulebreaker020326.htm (1473 words)

	CNN.com - Will nanotech save the world or is it mostly hype? - Apr 16, 2004
		Nanotech turns some long-held principles of physics upside down.
		Some elements of these nanoparticles may be toxic, so it's premature to consider human testing.
		Physicists studying nanotech made another serendipitous find: They discovered that atoms make noise.
	www.cnn.com /2004/TECH/science/04/15/nanotech.ideas (1061 words)

	Lux Capital : The Nanotech Report 2003
		The Nanotech Report was the first to recommend following government funding as a driver to invest in nanotech tool providers.
		The Nanotech Report 2003 uncovers leading government laboratories and academic researchers at the forefront of nanotechnology, ranks the most influential people in the field and highlights venture capital and worldwide government funding trends.
		In terms of significance and potential impact, The Nanotech Report reminds me of Morgan Stanley's The Internet Report when I was co-writing it.
	www.luxcapital.com /nanotechreport (560 words)

	2007 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show - Nanotech 2007
		The nanotech proceedings offer 3,064 pages of the latest peer-reviewed nanotechnology research.
		Technology and Business leaders provide 10 expert tutorials on all aspects of Nanotech and its impact into industrial verticals.
		This event is not open to the general public and NSTI reserves the right to refuse admission and participation to any individual.
	www.nsti.org /Nanotech2007 (215 words)

	Nanotechbuzz - Main page - Nanotech news made simple. - nanotech, nanotechnology, foresight, nanobots
		Creative Weblogging is interested in adding another nanotech geek to work as blog editor for this blog.
		You'll be working along with our current nanotech blogger, Michael, but of course, adding your own techie twist to the topic.
		Although solar is often hailed as a great, environmentally friendly energy source, it has a ways to go before being able to compete with fossil fuels - but efforts like this could make the difference.
	www.nanotechbuzz.com (862 words)

	Nanotech Fortunes by Darrell Brookstein ... The Nanotech Company
		Join Darrell Brookstein and the real experts in nanotech and small technology investing who have the courage to stay away or even go short when the time is right and swing for the fences for the long-term, at precisely the moment when the odds are most in an investor’s favor.
		Without the breathless hype that typifies nanotech writing, Brookstein details the pitfalls and flies in the ointment that could relieve thousands of investors of their hard earned cash.
		Without over-the-head science, equations and techno-babble, Brookstein (with the help of some of the world’s top nanoscientists and nanotech financial experts) has created the source for nanotech investing; the first and only book that gives investors, entrepreneurs, scientists and executives the real scoop on the hidden world of professional nanotech investing.
	www.bookmasters.com /marktplc/01409.htm (611 words)

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