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  2. From: bsmart@bsmart.TTI.COM (Bob Smart)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
  4. Subject: Re: Definitions, Nanotech.
  5. Message-ID: <36987@ttidca.TTI.COM>
  6. Date: 25 Jul 92 02:31:57 GMT
  7. References: <BrwtJo.5FI@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Jul22.204459.8563@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Jul23.152255.23756@shearson.com>
  8. Sender: nobody@ttidca.TTI.COM
  9. Reply-To: bsmart@bsmart.TTI.COM (Bob Smart)
  10. Organization: Citicorp+TTI
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  12.  
  13. In article <BrwtJo.5FI@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
  14. alyoung@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (amy young) writes:
  15. > It's interesting that I've asked people just *what* is
  16. > nanotechnology... it's thrown around quite frequently, but the two
  17. > people I personally know who blab it all the time can't give a good
  18. > definition of the word...  Anyone want to try?
  19.  
  20. I understand the term as "molecular or atomic scale engineering," but
  21. why not go straight to the source?  Pop over to sci.nanotech and ask, or
  22. better yet, read Drexler's Engines of Creation (I believe that was where
  23. the term was first coined).
  24.  
  25. ---------
  26.  
  27. A fanatic is someone who does what he knows that God would do if God knew the
  28. facts of the case.
  29.  
  30. Some mailers apparently munge my address; you might have to use
  31. bsmart@bsmart.tti.com -- or if that fails, fall back to
  32. 72027.3210@compuserve.com.  Ain't UNIX grand?
  33.