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- Title: Nanotechnology and the Dilemmas Facing Business and Government
- Author : Florida Bar Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 80 KB
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Human beings have been obsessed over the course of history with building larger and larger structures: for example, Stonehenge, the Great Pyramids of Egypt, the Empire State Building, the Sears Tower. Today, that obsession continues worldwide. In December 1959, however, Dr. Richard Feynman, a recipient of a Nobel Prize in physics and a former scientist on the Manhattan Project, challenged the scientific community to think small. When he delivered a lecture titled, "Plenty of Room at the Bottom," he suggested, among other things, that by "maneuvering things atom by atom," the 24 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica could be written on the head of one pin. He noted that biology was already aware of the ability of a single cell to carry DNA molecules containing complex information. Dr. Feynman observed that "atoms on a small scale behave like nothing on a large scale, for they satisfy the laws of quantum mechanics." (1) In 1986, Dr. Eric Drexler, who popularized the term "nanotechnology," introduced in a book titled Engines of Creation, the scientific concepts by which molecules can be assembled at the nano level to make usable items. (2) The Essentials of Nanotechnology