What is Nanotechnology?
Nanotechnology is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. It deals with structures sized between 1 to 100 nanometer in at least one dimension, and involves developing materials or devices processing at least one dimension within that size.
Nanotechnology is very diverse, raging from extension of conventional device physics to completely new approaches based upon molecular self-assembly, from developing new materials with dimensions on the nano scale to investigating whether we can directly control matter on the atomic scale.
As we all can see that our world today is full of technologies and this technologies keeps on growing and growing that it reaches to the point that we come up with the nanotechnology that scientists keeps on working to improve this technology. Like electricity or computers before it, nanotech will offer greatly improved efficiency in almost every facet of life. But as a general-purpose technology, it will be dual-use, meaning it will have many commercial uses and it also will have many military uses—making far more powerful weapons and tools of surveillance. Thus it represents not only wonderful benefits for humanity, but also grave risks.
The key of understanding nanotechnology is that it offers not just better products, but a vastly improved manufacturing process. A computer can make copies of data files—essentially as many copies as you want at little or no cost. It may be only a matter of time until the building of products becomes as cheap as the copying of files. That's the real meaning of nanotechnology, and why it is sometimes seen as "the next industrial revolution."
So be prepared to the next technology that soon will be invented.
