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Texto # 1: The Future of Nanotech: Ultrasmall technology, revolutionary impact.
Eric Bender Monday, October 02, 2006 01:00 AM PDT

Nanotechnology: Why It Matters Interest in nanotech is strongbecause standard silicon techniques have nearly reached their limit--CPUs and similar products can't get much smaller with current technology because makers can't keep stuffing more and more transistorsin the same space. With nanotech, they can. Materials shrunk to a few billionths of a meter go crazy. Magnets demagnetize, and conventional techniques of semiconductor information processing--used foreverything from storing data to moving bits and bytes around your PC--don't work. But though the rules change, they can be exploited in ways that offer more, not less, functionality and speed. And itwill all eventually cost less, too. This is the world of nanotechnology, and you're already starting to live in it. "The whole trillion-dollar information technology industry is based on thecontinuing drive of miniaturization," says Thomas Theis, director of physical sciences at IBM's Watson Research Center. Imagine, he says, how big that economy can be when you can get a million times thecomplexity of today's information systems for the same dollars. Nanotech research by government and private industry promises to create breakthroughs across information technology--creating dramaticallyfaster, smaller, and cheaper devices that will permit ubiquitous computing, some forms of which we haven't conceived of yet--along with enhancing just about everything else humans make. "We and othersare using nanotechnology to create smaller and smaller chips that have more and more power and communicate with everything around them," comments Nantero CEO Greg Schmergel. "Everything in your homeand office and car will have intelligence and the information you need."

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