Abstract:
You may not be able to see it, but you can't avoid its buzz. Nanotechnology is fast becoming as pervasive a cultural icon as TiVo or Levitra. The wizardry of building teeny things that are measured in one-billionths of a meter has begun to figure in Hollywood movies, in bestselling novels - even in Jay Leno's monologues. Nanotech has also inspired a dithyramb on the website of the ordinarily sober National Science Foundation.