Nanotech and Keeping Up

Technology is changing rapidly just now. A very cool term, "nanotech," is being used - and misused - quite a lot. I put together a list of posts relating to nanotechnology, for another blog today. Here it is, with the post I created it for included.

I think the post titles give an idea of what gadgets might plausibly be used in stories set in the 'near future.' For anything more than, say fifty to a hundred years out? I don't think I'll be trying to describe how the technology works - just what it does. And, try to make sure it doesn't resemble a clunky version of something being developed this year by some outfit in Japan or Silicone Valley.

From Apathetic Lemming of the North:

• "20 Years of Building Stuff One Atom at a Time"
  (October 2, 2009)
• "ViRob: Tiny 'Robot' Travels Through Body"
  (June 27, 2009)
• "Nanotechnolgy and Electronics: Atom-Sized Transistors ('Nanotronics'??)"
  (February 20, 2009)
• "Slick Idea from MIT: Nanotech Oil Spill Blotter-Upper"
  (July 10, 2008)
• "The Chembots Are Coming"
  (July 1, 2008)
• "Programmable Metallization Cell (PMC): One Terabyte of Data in a Little Package"
  (June 20, 2008)
• "Spiderman Suit: From CGI to R & D"
  (March 31, 2008)
• "Nanosieves: Energy-Efficient Filters"
  (March 5, 2008)
• "It Bends! It Cleans Itself! It's Solar Powered! Meet the Cell Phone of the Future! Maybe"
  (March 3, 2008)
• "Artificial Skin: New Technologies Coming"
  (February 12, 2008)
• "Nanotech Solar Collector: Revolutionary, With a Big Catch"
  (January 16, 2008)
• "Nanobot Designed for Clearing Arteries"
  (November 21, 2007)
• "Nanotech Batteries in Clothing"
  (October 19, 2007)
• "Something New that Water Can Do"
  (October 19, 2007)

By the way, as I pointed out in today's post in the other blog, " 'Nanotechnology' Doesn't Mean 'Kinda Small'."