Nanotechnology: What will it mean?
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Nanotechnology has an enormous potential to bring about change, but whether the technology will be used to do good or evil remains a problematical question. Concerns were expressed as long ago as 1986 in a book by nanotechnology pioneer Eric Drexler titled 'Engines of Creation' and in a 1988 follow-up essay called 'A Dialog on Dangers.' It has taken time for the research community to accept the technology's feasibility, but nanotechnology is finally being taken seriously. In Jan 2000, the President of the United States called for a $500 million National Nanotechnology Initiative.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2001
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Through a lens sharply
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The camera phone is one of the largest selling items in all consumer electronics and its anticipated sales in 2004 was 170 million units. This phone has FluidFocus lens which can be made as small as the fixed-focus lens that use a small aperture and short focal length to keep most things in focus but sacrifice of light-gathering power and therefore of picture quality.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2004
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Changing photographic landscape
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The effects of the increase in the demand for digital cameras on the manufacture and sale of traditional film cameras.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2006
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