Humor Nanotechnology is a new science moving faster than the speed of light might even take over our world one day. Nanotechnology refers to the ability to create and manipulate matter by precisely placing atoms and molecules. In nanotechnology, man creates molecular-sized nanomachines. These machines would be programmed to reproduce themselves in the millions and then place atoms precisely to build molecules. These molecules could then be assembled together into whatever hard compounds we need or can imagine.
Nanotechnology is really an engineering process.
We currently assemble things by using large machines to build smaller ones or by taking gross matter and cutting or molding it into steel, paper, plastic, etc., and then further cutting and die casting to manufacture goods. With nanotechnology, we begin at the bottom with single atoms and assemble more and more of them until matter is produced. This change is manufacturing is revolutionary and will affect all aspects of existence. What is needed right now to complete the first stage of nano research is the concerted efforts of many disciplines to produce the first nanoscale machines which, as we said above, will replicate themselves and then follow their programs to place atoms and make matter. Shelter Island Conference, 1947.