Comment - This article talks about a recent conference on nanotechnology. "Researchers suspect that the natural world's ability to assemble atoms into complex tissues with very exact specifications may hold the key to making vast quantities of minute, inexpensive pollution sensors or solar cells. Bioengineers, on the other hand, are looking to artificial nanostructures as possible drug delivery systems or as scaffolds to help injured organs repair themselves."

I just finished a book by Michael Crichton called "Prey". It was a science-fiction/horror story about nanotechnology run amok. It really was not very good. That's two books in a row from Crichton that have been disappointing. In fact, I don't think he's written a good book since Jurassic Park.

We don't need nanotechnology. Instead, we should have "nana" technology. That's where Nana Weir, Nana Rogers, etc., tell you to shape up and fly right. But "nana" technology out-of-control would be scary indeed!

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