If It's Nano, It's BIG

"If It's Nano, It's BIG" is published by the Washington Post (TechNews.com). It focuses on the stock market values for companies working in the nanotech field. Still, it is a convenient starting place to add nanotech to the concerns of this blog.

Every once in a while there is an important technological advance. Information and computer technology has perhaps been the most important in the last few decades. Now we have the digital divide. Biotechnology is potentially extremely important, and we are seeing major controversies, including refusal of food that could feed hungry people in Africa because the varieties provided contain recombinant genes.

Nanotechnology seems potentially another important technology. Lets hope people in developing nations get a head start thinking about the social and economic implications of this technology.