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.

MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, Manufacturing NEC, All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing, Research, Manufacturing industry, Manufacturing industries, Forecasts and trends, Technological forecasting, Column, Technology overview, Technology and civilization, Technology and society, Nanotechnology, Authorship, Technology and state, Technology policy, Future of computing, Drexler, Kim Eric

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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.

Product information, Labor Distribution by Employer, Wireless telephones, Statistics

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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.

Photographic equipment and supplies, Photographic and Photocopying Equipment Manufacturing, Sales & consumption, Photographic studios, portrait, Photographic Services, Photography Studios, Portrait, Computer Peripheral Cameras, Photographic industry, Digital cameras, Electronic cameras, Digital camera, 35mm cameras, Industry sales and revenue

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