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From: fbaube@NOTE.NSF.GOV (Fred Baube)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Nanotech
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Date: 29 Jul 88 13:53:19 GMT
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This past Tuesday's NY Times Science section (July 26) had a lead
article on micro-mechanical engineering, using chip etching tech-
niques to fabricate infinitesimal motors and the like.  One might
not consider these devices to be "nanotech", since they are
several orders of magnitude larger than molecular computers and
other Drexler-ish devices, but they are also so very much smaller
than current products of mechanical engineering that no straight-
forward link between the two environments was discussed in the
article.

/f