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To: Kirk © who wrote (33317)	11/23/1999 10:02:00 AM
From: Katherine Derbyshire	Read Replies (1) of 70976

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are made with fairly standard silicon processing technology, but MEMS are way too big to be nanobots. Atomic force microscopes can assemble structures an atom at a time, but are very very slow. Too slow for mass production of nanobots, but maybe fast enough to build tools to make nanobots. My vote is for molecular computing as the Next Big Thing once silicon runs out of room (or as soon as molecular computing is cheaper, which may happen before we reach the technical limits of silicon), and for biotech as the source of nanobots. Drexler's 'Engines of Creation' is a popular science look at the possibilities. People with a technical background will throw it across the room halfway through, and may want to read his book "Nanosystems" instead. Both these books are a few years old at this point. Can anyone recommend a more recent treatment of nanotechnology? Katherine

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